Eli Roth, 2005
Two friends from school are backpacking across Europe when they arrive in Amsterdam with an Icelandic man they encountered during their travels. They hit some hash bars then start chasing some Amsterdamian tail only to find a pimp that highly recommends Slovakia for beautiful, easy women. Once they arrive in the eerily quiet town, they check into a Hostel and everything starts to go to hell. Then, the movie progresses just like every other one in the genre, creepy twist and everything.
If you like Eli Roth movies (Cabin Fever, Hostel II) you'd probably like this. It has the requisite gore (to the extent that when you see the back of a man's head explode from a gunshot it appears rather tame) and subverts the former tendency of horror movies to punish those of questionable morals while saving the righteous. My patience for these movies is wearing thinner and thinner.
Image Courtesy of TheSydneyMorningHerald.com,
which provides a less biased review that touches on the question of whether this type of film is merely voyeuristic, or a shove to recognize the horrors of real-world cruelty.
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