Hostel [UMD Mini for PSP] [2006] [US Import]

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  • Total Used: 2
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  • Actor : Jay Hernandez
  • Actor : Derek Richardson
  • Actor : Eythor Gudjonsson
  • Actor : Barbara Nedeljakova
  • Actor : Jan Vlasák
  • Aspect Ratio : 16:9 - 1.78:1
  • Audience Rating : Suitable for 18 years and over
  • Binding : UMD Mini for PSP
  • Creator : Jay Hernandez
  • Creator : Derek Richardson
  • Creator : Eli Roth
  • Creator : Eli Roth
  • Creator : Boaz Yakin
  • Creator : Chris Briggs
  • Creator : Daniel S. Frisch
  • Creator : Mike Fleiss
  • Creator : Philip Waley
  • Director : Eli Roth
  • EAN : 0043396141834
  • Format : Colour
  • Format : Subtitled
  • Format : Widescreen
  • Label : Sony Pictures
  • Languages : Subtitled: English, Subtitled: French, Original Language: Czech, Original Language: Dutch, Original Language: English, Original Language: German, Original Language: Icelandic, Original Language: Japanese, Original Language: Russian, Original Language: Slovak, Original Language: Spanish
  • Manufacturer : Sony Pictures
  • MPN : COLDU14183
  • Number Of Discs : 1
  • Number Of Items : 1
  • Package Dimensions : 0.58 inches (Height) x 7.10 inches (Length) x 0.18 pounds (Weight) x 5.42 inches (Width)
  • Part Number : COLDU14183
  • Picture Format : Anamorphic Widescreen
  • Product Group : DVD
  • Publisher : Sony Pictures
  • Release Date : 2006-04-18
  • Running Time : 94
  • SKU : mon0000099661_loc
  • Studio : Sony Pictures
  • UPC : 043396141834

Well-made for the genre -- the excessive-skin-displayed-before-gruesome-bloody-torture-begins genre -- Hostel follows two randy Americans (Jay Hernandez, Friday Night Lights, and Derek Richardson, Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd) and an even randier Icelander (Eythor Gudjonsson) as they trek to Slovakia, where they're told beautiful girls will have sex with anyone with an American accent. Unfortunately, the girls will also sell young Americans to a company that offers victims to anyone who will pay to torture and murder. To his credit, writer/director Eli Roth (Cabin Fever) takes his time setting things up, laying a realistic foundation that makes the inevitable spilling of much blood all the more gruesome. The sardonic joke, of course, is that Americans are worth the most in this brothel of blood because everyone else in the world wants to take revenge upon them. This dark humor and political subtext help set Hostel above its more brainless sadistic compatriots, like House of Wax or The Devil's Rejects. In general, though, there's something lacking; horror used to suggest some threat to the spirit--today's horror can conceive of nothing more troubling than torturing the flesh. For afficionados, Hostel features a nice cameo by Takashi Miike, director of bloody Japanese flicks like Audition and Ichi the Killer. --Bret Fetzer

- Amazon.co.uk

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