is the movie Hostel based on a true story ?

berengar

I hear rumours that it is, ?

For my own sanity I sure hope not

Mossy Monk

is it a good movie? havent seen it yet and was contemplating it

elvis2002

hardly now come on.

monkeyfudge

Didn't they issue an apology to Iceland for portraying Icelandic people as drunken sex maniacs?

I haven't seen the film myself yet... might do so tomorrow.

SpAcEd OuT

the director said it was based on a website he came across where people could pay to kill someone in whatever way they wanted

Rb

Based on true events apparently.

koneko

lol no

It's vaguely based on true events in that
a) Eli Roth has been to hostels before and likes putting "hot chicks" in his films, so some of the (non-torture) stuff might be from his own experience
b) he came up with the idea after someone (Quentin Tarantino or Harry Knowles? Can't remember) told him about a site where you can pay $10k to kill someone, in Malaysia or Thailand or something. The site might not even be real, and the film isn't based on real events.

Sleepy

I think I've actually seen that website. Have a vague recollection of coming across an assassin for hire web-page before...

Gillo

SpAcEd OuT wrote:

the director said it was based on a website he came across where people could pay to kill someone in whatever way they wanted

Combined with your signature that has to be the post so far this year.
I heard it was meant to be based on an actual event, having said that how close or relative it is, I don't know. In fairness there are some pretty sick people out there so there could well be a market for such a service.

casanova_kid

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c - 13

Mossy Monk wrote:

is it a good movie? havent seen it yet and was contemplating it

So-so, nothing special about it and the gore that everyone raved on about to me before I saw it was hugely exaggerated IMHO anyway.
Worth a look if nothing better on I suppose.

zuma

rb_ie wrote:

Based on true events apparently.

The eejit of a director gave hints about a recent war occuring in Slovakia.....but the only recent war for them was WW2!
Slovenia is the only country which sounds similar and had a civil war in the last couple of decades.

Also he made Slovakia out to be like a very deprived area of rural Russia.....which its not from what ive heard.

The film was pretty crap and gruesome at times(the eye part!)....but the girls were sh!t hot


Go to the imdb associated forums and see what I mean....a hell of a lot pissed off Slovakins!!!!

Dave!

zuma wrote:

The eejit of a director gave hints about a recent war occuring in Slovakia.....but the only recent war for them was WW2!
Slovenia is the only country which sounds similar and had a civil war in the last couple of decades.

Also he made Slovakia out to be like a very deprived area of rural Russia.....which its not from what ive heard.

The film was pretty crap and gruesome at times(the eye part!)....but the girls were sh!t hot


Go to the imdb associated forums and see what I mean....a hell of a lot pissed off Slovakins!!!!

Those are the worst laid out forums ever -- so annoying reading through them! :mad:

Sparky

Nice women in it though.

Mexicola

I didnt really care about the gore, it was all those beautiful boobies I was interested in I did expect that many :cool:

dubtom

Not a very good movie, i suspect they paid tarantino 15 quid to stick his name on it and the film cost another 15. I couldn't remember what it was called the next day, not a good sign.

monkeyfudge

dubtom wrote:

Not a very good movie, i suspect they paid tarantino 15 quid to stick his name on it and the film cost another 15. I couldn't remember what it was called the next day, not a good sign.

Calm down... no need to be so 'Hostel' about the movie.

lodgepole

The idea came from a website that Eli Roth found on the internet many moons ago. He has never claimed it to be based on fact and has, in any quotes i've seen, always mentioned that it is not.

dubtom wrote:

Not a very good movie, i suspect they paid tarantino 15 quid to stick his name on it and the film cost another 15. I couldn't remember what it was called the next day, not a good sign.

They didn't pay him anything actually, he added his name to it so that the film would be made. Much the same reason his name was added to Hero in the United States (although in that case it was so that it would be released un-edited).

irlirishkev

Mossy Monk wrote:

is it a good movie? havent seen it yet and was contemplating it

Not really.. In fact, before reading this thread, I'd forgotten I'd been to see it!

K.

johnp

irlirishkev wrote:

Not really.. In fact, before reading this thread, I'd forgotten I'd been to see it!

K.

I agree. I was really looking forward to seeing it. But it was muck (apart from the baps ).

cooperguy

Its not based on a true story. And its a terrible movie avoid it at all costs. The first half is all t*ts and ass and the second half is pointless gore.

DaBreno

cooperguy wrote:

The first half is all t*ts and ass and the second half is pointless gore.

The only things I look for in a film. Result!

turbot

OK, I actually thought hostel was kinda cool, for a couple of reasons:

1) It was totally non hollywood; the actors in the film, reminded me, exactly of american students I know personally, including what they were interested in.

2) It was sufficiently unusual to be interesting, and sufficiently different to get my attention. In many ways, it was disconcertingly realistic.

3) For everyone who doesn't live in Lala land, it's reasonable that something like the torture organisation exists in the World somewhere. I'd imagine it's a dramatised depiction of what could be based on truth.

4) The girls were hot, and there are lots of hot Eastern European girls in Dublin. Now you have to rationalise that if you date one of them, and she wants to tie you up, it might be even more of a thrill.

5) I'm not surprised slovakians are raging, as the film played on every stereotype of weirder aspects of Eastern Europe. I imagine that anyone dumb who watched this film would be unlikely to visit Eastern europe anytime soon.

6) Curiously, the film was almost amateur enough to be realistic, it was totally non glam.

7) it was kinda horrific, and I know several people who watched it who said they came out feeling sick. You pay for dramatic effect. It was at least as twisted as the saw 2.


I think, in a sense, it's almost a classic, if only because it does everything outlined above well.

I can't wait to watch the next two horror films that Tarantino is working on.

DS

It's crap. Really poor acting, an unrealistic amount of titty, and pointless amounts of gore. Fair enough if you're into that, but in parts it was more like a South Park parody than a horror. I'm also ashamed to say I was reeled in by the Tarantino marketing gimmick. Now that I know he's taken to whoring his name out at every opportunity I'll be more careful next time.

dubtom

You know what bothered me most about this film, the lead/hero, call him what you like, kills about 6 people, the last one in a jacks in a train station, loads of blood and gore, then boards a train, blood splatter free, not a drop, and rides off into the sunset. NON hollywood? no, just bad.

John R

koneko wrote:

lol no

It's vaguely based on true events in that
a) Eli Roth has been to hostels before and likes putting "hot chicks" in his films, so some of the (non-torture) stuff might be from his own experience
b) he came up with the idea after someone (Quentin Tarantino or Harry Knowles? Can't remember) told him about a site where you can pay $10k to kill someone, in Malaysia or Thailand or something. The site might not even be real, and the film isn't based on real events.

Eli Roth is a complete fukwit. Anyone watch the programme on Channel 4 last night about snuff films? He was on it talking complete nonsense.

He sounded like a cliched dumb American that actually believe everything they see in horror films and are convinced the world is filled with horrible people just waiting for a yank to wander past to torture and kill.

Selik

I saw it a while ago and thought it was alright. The whole point of the film is the B-movie premise, excessive and ridiculous gore and titties in abundance. It doesn't pretend to be anything else and I think some people here are forgettng that.

And with that I give this film, 3 stars our of 5.

pbsuxok1znja4r

The inspiration for the film came from a website a couple of years ago that claimed for $10,000 you could walk into a room in Thailand (I think) and shoot a willing participant in the head. Roth had this idea in his head for a film for many months thereafter, until he came up with the ideas of using a backpacking premise.
Roth is an idiot and his films suck.

super_furry

Meh, I liked Cabin Fever. Hostel is a pile of arse though.

Liver Lips

Its probably true in the same way that if you eat a full 20 box of MR Freeze coolpops and furiously pump your yoghurt gun your spunk shoots out like a rainbow....

carbonkid

Mightnt be a true story but after words i was thinking its probably given some twisted people some ideas of maybe setting up something similar - scary thought

Haven't seen Hostel. If it's 'as gory as Saw II' then won't be rushing out - thought Saw I was more shocking.

Thought the most realistic horror I have seen for a while was Wolf Creek, though it does throw out the odd horror cliché - why don't female victims ever run away or kill the baddy when they have the chance. That's based on the backpacker killings that rocked Oz in the ealry 90s, and Ivan Milat in particular, but is still a fictionalised.