


However, as their partying continues the situation turns unsettling when at first Óli, then Josh disappear. When the trio are informed of a barely known hostel near Bratislava filled with all the beautiful women they could want, their next destination is immediately set.Īs they proceed to have the times of their lives at their destination by partying, drinking and doing drugs, Paxton and Josh finally get lucky with two attractive European girls Svetlana (Jana Kaderadbkova) and Natalya (Barbara Nedeljakova). Óli is simply insane throwing himself into situations in bizarre ways is completely first nature to him. Josh on the other hand is far more reserved and set up as the sensible one of the group, but is clearly trying to embrace Paxton’s extremism. Paxton is sex-obsessed and determined to be as wild as possible, and is eager to get his friend Josh laid.

It’s during their initial merriment in Amsterdam that the trio are defined. Hostel tells the tale of American college students Paxton (Jay Hernandez) and Josh (Derek Richardson), along with their older Icelandic travel companion Óli (Eyþór Guðjónsson) partying their way across Europe. Admittedly this was mostly due to the rapidly re-spawning Saw franchise itself, but alongside WΔZ as an original property was Eli Roth’s Hostel, and it’s hard not to see the 2005 original as starting a game of one-upmanship with the Saw series. “It frankly isn’t the barrage of barbarism it needs to be!”įollowing Saw‘s 2003 release it seemed there would be a never ending tide of movies that themselves would unleash a never ending tide of gore.
