History Film / Hostel

* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:The film's opening focuses on Paxton, ending with a sharp curveball as his girlfriend walks downstairs one morning and finds his decapitated corpse sitting at the dining table.]] It was enough to make some fans [[FanonDiscontinuity boot the whole film from the series canon]].

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Paxton finishes off the Dutch Businessman the same way he finished off Josh -- holding him up in front of a mirror before slitting his throat. [[FridgeLogic He wasn't in the room to see how Josh actually died, however]], which may imply that by being led to the same murder methods, he may be NotSoDifferent from him after all.]]

* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler: The American Client who Paxton runs into rants about how weary he has become after a while of sexual pleasure-seeking, before mentioning how being in the Elite Hunting club is much more thrilling. As such, Paxton and his friends have spent the entire first half of the movie pursuing sexual escapades, and had they let the thrill get to their heads, [[FridgeHorror it wouldn't be unlikely that they would join the club to torture people for kicks after growing tired of sex themselves.]]]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The film never explains what happened to the woman that Todd accidentally slashed in the face with a buzzsaw is never seen nor heard from again. It's possible she was finished off by another torturer.

* Gorn: Possibly more so than the first film. Todd's corpse is mangled as he is eaten by dogs, Lorna is exsanguinated by Ms.Bathory not to mention having her throat slit to put her out of her misery, an old man eats one of his victim's legs on a plate in the background, Stuart's penis, the entirety of it, is ripped right out from between his legs, whole, by Beth, and Beth severs Axelle's head in front of a group of kids. Should we go on?

* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Josh]], who in the DevelopingDoomedCharacters part of the film is presented as genuinely nice and likeable, more just the tag-along than the complete hedonists his companions are.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The Amsterdam featured in the film's opening doesn't much resemble the actual Amsterdam. And the less said about the film's portrayal of Slovakia, the better.

* EvilLaugh: Natalya lets out multiple sinister laughs as she [[EvilAllAlong reveals her true nature to Paxton]], and he's abducted and dragged away shortly after.
* EyeScream: The center of arguably the most gruesome moment in the film. [[spoiler:Kana has most of the skin around her eye blow-torched off, leaving it dangling nastily by the optic nerve. Paxton later has to remove her eye, in graphic detail.]]
* FatalFamilyPhoto: Both [[spoiler: Oli and the Dutch Businessman]] on the train.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Todd is overcome with guilt at his actions after accidentally pushing the buzzsaw into Whitney's face.]]

* TheCameo: Creator/TakashiMiike, whose film ''Film/{{Audition}}'' was a primary influence for Roth in structuring the film, is seen leaving the Elite Hunting club's slaughterhouse and offering a word of caution to the protagonists.
-->"You spend...all your money...in there."

''Hostel'' was Roth's first project following the success of ''Film/CabinFever'', and assisted in no small portion by the aforementioned Tarantino, a fan of the film, who pushed Roth to create an original story as he was receiving various directorial offers on horror remakes.

All three films utilize the same style of horror, containing Roth's [[SignatureStyle pre-established likings]] for prominent {{splatter|Horror}} elements and the occasional BlackComedy, this time presented through the world of extreme torture. In fact, it was the first film that was among the flock that [[TropeCodifier directly inspired]] the coining of the term "TorturePorn". While its actual applicability to this series is a mildly contentious subject, all three films are definitely not to be watched while [[NauseaFuel eating a bowl of spaghetti]].

** When the men arrive at the hostel, the lobby TV is playing a dubbed version of ''Film/PulpFiction'', which was directed by the same Quentin Tarantino that encouraged Roth to make the film and produced it. [[spoiler:Paxton seeing Natalya, Svetlana, and Alexi in the road - and promptly running them over with his car - can also be said to reference Butch running over Marcellus Wallace.]]

* MaleGaze: Even for a series as sex-focused as ''Hostel'', this one in particular contains a gratuitous amount of close-ups on women's butts.

* GroinAttack:
** In the first film, as Paxton is being taken to his room, he sees a few other people being tortured. One of them appeared to be suspended helplessly, with the man's genitals being twisted off. With a rather sickening crunch.
** In the second film, [[spoiler:Beth to Stuart. ''With garden shears''. With no discretion shot.]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even the hardened killers working there recoil.]] [[spoiler:Then she feeds his genitals to a guard dog.]]
--->''"Let him bleed to death."''

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Paxton finishes off the Dutch Businessman the same way he finished off Josh [[FridgeLogic (although he wasn't in the room to see how)]] -- holding him up in front of a mirror before slitting his throat.]]

* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:The film's opening sequence focuses on Paxton, ending with a sharp curveball as his girlfriend walks downstairs one morning and finds his headless corpse sitting at the dining table.]] It was enough to make some fans [[FanonDiscontinuity boot the whole film from the series canon]].

[[folder:Tropes in ''Part I'']]

* ActionGirl: Beth in ''Part II'' is more badass than any previous protagonists by a fair margin -- [[spoiler:she gives Stuart, her torturer, a brutal GroinAttack with garden shears, joins the hunting club, and beheads the woman who tricked her and her friends into going to the hostel in the end. Oh, and she becomes one of the club members... i.e. the villains of the movie.]]

* AgonyOfTheFeet: Josh. ''Hoo, boy''...
* AndIMustScream
* AntiClimax: In the sequel, between [[spoiler: Beth simply [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney buying her freedom]] from the Elite Hunting Club]] and [[spoiler: her final scene only showing her killing Axelle and nothing more]], the movie seems to simply come to a grinding halt rather than end.
* AngryGuardDog: In Part II, Todd gets mauled to death by a pack of them as punishment for refusing to kill Whitney.
* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The Amsterdam featured in the film's opening doesn't much resemble the actual Amsterdam. And the less said about the film's portrayal of Slovakia, the better.
* AuctionOfEvil: In the second film, one scene shows wealthy people typing on their cell phones/computers, bidding for the right to torture and kill the women displayed on their devices' screens. The bidding is in the tens of thousands of dollars.

* BerserkButton: Beth, when someone calls her a cunt. [[spoiler: Stuart when his wife is mentioned]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Stuart seems much less enthusiastic about torturing someone than his friend Todd, but in reality he chose someone who looks almost exactly like his wife and his hesitancy in selecting weaponry is simply because he wants to beat her to death with his bare hands.

* BilingualBonus: Many of the scenes include dialogue spoken in untranslated foreign languages--most notably, a speech delivered by the main character towards his torturer in [[GratuitousGerman German]].
* BlackAndGrayMorality: The three protagonists in the first movie are homophobic and impulsive sex addicts who become targets of deranged sadists who pay thousands of dollars solely to torture victims to death. It's obvious what the lesser of the two evils is here.
* BloodBath: In the sequel, one of the clients of the Elite Hunting group is a woman who slices up a suspended female captive with scythes and sickles, and bathes in the blood that spills out of her wounds. The client just so happened to be named Mrs. Bathory as a ShoutOut to the TropeMaker.
* TheCanKickedHim: The awesome climax.
* CarFu: During the escape scene.
* TheCameo: Japanese filmmaker Creator/TakashiMiike is seen leaving the Elite Hunting club's slaughterhouse in the first movie.
** The old man cannibal in ''Hostel Part II''? That's Ruggero Deodato, director of ''Film/CannibalHolocaust''.
* ChainsawGood: Though in an amusing case of [[RealityEnsues Reality Ensuing]], [[spoiler:it doesn't end well for the would be chainsaw wielder.]]
* ChekhovsHobby: Beth's fortune. Beth was revealed to hold a vast fortune, the point of its mention not made clear until later.
* ChekhovsSkill: Ultimately subverted. Paxton is implied to speak German earlier in the film. He shows he can later on to a German Elite Hunting club member, but it doesn't help him any.
* ColdBloodedTorture: A lot.
* [[CreepyChild Creepy Children]]: The Bubblegum Gang.
* DeadlyRoadTrip: They target tourists.
* DeathBySex: Averted. The only survivor of the first movie [[spoiler:is Paxton, possibly the horniest of the main characters, while Josh, who was quite reluctant about their... activities is killed slowly and painfully. It's not an aversion as it's part of Eli Roth's overall themes as a writer; in his horror films, the virgin always dies horribly while the slut/manwhore is usually the last man standing.]] Although, in the second film, the [[spoiler:only survivor is the sensible one who avoided hooking up with any guys. Then again, it may also be an inversion of BuryYourGays due to Beth's LesYay subtext with Axelle.]]
** The second film somewhat subverts this as [[spoiler: while the survivor is the one who avoids hooking up with any guys, she is not a virgin and it is the clearly virginal Lorna dies first.]]
* DepravedBisexual: Mrs. Bathory and possibly [[spoiler: The Dutch Businessman. Since he has a daughter he might have a wife as well and he makes some creepy advances to Josh.]]
* DepravedHomosexual: [[spoiler: The Dutch Businessman. Possibly Axelle who may be lesbian or at least bi or maybe using her sexuality to manipulate Beth and maybe depraved. Or maybe she's just ruthless.]]

* DoubleStandard: The Slovaks were pissed off enough with the film portraying their country as an ensemble of [[{{Ruritania}} some of the most glaring and outdated East European clichés]] but they certainly didn't feel much better when director Eli Roth issued a formal apology... to the Icelandic Minister of Culture for having Eythor Gudjonsson star as a drunken Icelander.
* DrivenToSuicide: When the victim finally sees a reflection of the damage, [[spoiler:Kana jumps into a train's path]].
* EntitledToHaveYou: In ''Hostel III'', [[spoiler:Carter feels this way about Scott’s fiancé Amy, which is why he wants to [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill Scott]].]]
* EpicFail: In what is a borderline DeusExMachina, [[spoiler: the German Elite Hunter about to mutilate Paxton further slips on the fingers he cut off and is dismembered by his own chainsaw.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: The Dutch Businessman is possibly the most brutal character of the whole 1st movie but he's shown to deeply love his little daughter. In an alternate ending he goes into a desperate VillainousBreakdown after Paxton kidnaps her as an act of vengeance.]]
* EvilLaugh: Natalya
* EyeScream: Kana, the Japanese girl, has most of the skin around her eye blow-torched off, leaving it dangling nastily by the optic nerve. Paxton later has to remove her eye, in graphic detail.
* FaceHeelDoubleTurn: [[spoiler: Todd and Stuart start out as the ones wanting to torture though Todd is ''very'' interested while Stuart is extremely reluctant but does not want to let his friend down. By the end, once Todd accidentally cuts Whitney, he gets horrified and tries to help her while Stuart starts increasingly enjoying brutalizing his victim.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Stuart]] of Part II. He was EvilAllAlong, but only "discovered" himself near the end.
* {{Fanservice}}: See Hell-Bent For Leather.
** Also Part II, [[spoiler: Beth]] ends up joining the Elite Hunting Club.
* FanDisservice: Well, obviously. One specific example, though, in Part II: The nice-looking Creator/HeatherMatarazzo isn't so nice looking when [[spoiler: hung upside down and bled to death]]. Also, [[spoiler:Stuart, having his genitals pried off with a pair of shears.]]
* FatalFamilyPhoto: Both [[spoiler: Oli and the Dutch Businessman]] on the train.
* {{Fingore}}: [[spoiler:Paxton]] loses a few fingers from the appointed torturer.
* ForTheEvulz: This is basically the sole motivation of the Elite Hunting's customers for horribily torture and kill innocent captives.
* FromBadToWorse: [[spoiler:Having half your hand cut off, escaping via dead body trolley, getting outside the hostel, going back ''in'' to save a girl and having to ''cut out her eyeball'', only for her to kill herself 10 minutes later]].
** [[spoiler: Hell, if ya want to go down that road, he went through all that for literally nothing, as he gets himself decapitated shortly after returning home in the sequel.]]
* {{Gorn}}:
** The only time this is not used is in the first 30 minutes of the first film.
** The Mrs. Bathory scene in Part II brings the "porn" part of gorn to a whole new level.
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler:Beth to Stuart.]] ''With garden shears''. With no discretion shot. Even the hardened killers working there recoil. Then she feeds his genitals to a guard dog.
-->''"Let him bleed to death."''
** In the first film, as Paxton was being taken to his room, he sees a few other people being tortured. One of them appeared to be suspended helplessly, with the man's genitals being twisted off. With a rather sickening crunch.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: After acting all badass throughout Part II, Todd quickly realizes the reality of his actions after unintentionally wounding Whitney whilst playing with a saw, leaving the room disgusted.]]
** RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Unfortunately for him, the Club answers to his departure by unleashing dogs on him, who promptly eat him.]]
* HellBentForLeather: In the third movie, [[spoiler:Justin]] gets tortured by a woman dressed in a leather cat suit. We have many close ups on her rear.

** [[spoiler:Paxton's would-be killer in the first movie]] is killed by his own chainsaw/gun.

** In Part III, [[spoiler: the host of the Vegas death show, 'Wheel of Misfortune' releases the protagonist from the torture chair, just before Carter was about to kill him as a TakeThat towards Carter. This causes a ripple effect resulting in him blowing the operation and him getting killed by the hands of Carter later.]]

* HorrorFilms
* HourglassPlot: Todd and Stuart in ''Part II''. The former starts out looking forward to torturing his victims, while the latter is clearly reluctant. Todd ends up disgusted with himself and refuses to kill Beth, which leads to his death, while Stuart turns out to be unrepentantly depraved underneath his passive façade.
* HumanPincushion: In the third film, [[spoiler:Justin]]'s death involves several arrows from a crossbow shot toward [[spoiler:his]] body.
* ImAHumanitarian: The old man briefly seen in the sequel. He slowly cuts away at [[spoiler:Miroslav]]'s leg, puts it on a plate, and happily eats away at a table in the background.
* ImpaledPalm: [[spoiler:Carter]] via corkscrew.
* ImprovisedWeapon: There are some interesting tools on the tables...

* JapaneseTourist: Kana and Yuki, though the girl that played Kana was actually British.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: The opening of the film shows that Paxton is certainly a fairly obnoxious {{Jerkass}}. That said, he proves more sympathetic as the movie goes on (between his backstory about watching a little girl drown as a kid and the guilt he feels over that to risking his life to try and save Josh and Kana)
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Almost everyone involved in Elite Hunting. Notable examples being Sasha, Valla (the desk girl), Mrs. Bathory, the Cannibal, and the masked woman in leather.]]
** [[spoiler: Brutally and satisfyingly subverted in Part III. Just when it seems like Carter will escape with his life, he's captured by the not-quite-dead Scott, with a little help from Amy, and savagely slaughtered with an electric tiller.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: The Dutch Businessman, first getting his fingers cut off then having his throat slit just as he had done to poor Josh.]]
* KickTheDog: Natalya laughing at [[spoiler: Paxton's]] reaction to [[spoiler: Josh's body]].
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:Sweet, naive Lorna.]]

* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: During Lorna's torture, Mrs. Bathory cuts off her gag and pokes/tickles her skin with the scythe just to hear the poor thing shriek and beg for her life before Bathory [[BloodBath bathes in her blood.]] Judging by the woman's reaction, this only arouses her even more.
* MadnessMantra: I'm not that guy... I'm not that guy... I'm not that guy...
* MaleGaze: See Hell-Bent For Leather.

* MeaningfulName: As mentioned, the woman who bathes in Lorna's blood in the second film is named [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory Mrs. Bathory]].

* MultipleEndings: The director's cut has a much darker and more ambiguous ending where [[spoiler: instead of killing the Dutch businessman, he kidnaps his daughter]], but perhaps through either ExecutiveMeddling or test-audience scoring, the other Rambo-style conclusion made it to theaters.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Todd is overcome with guilt at his actions after accidentally pushing the buzzsaw into Whitney's face.]]

* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler: The American Client who Paxton runs into rants about how weary he has become after a while of sexual pleasure-seeking, before mentioning how being in the Elite Hunting club is much more thrilling. As such, Paxton and his friends have spent the entire first half of the movie pursuing sexual escapades, and had they let the thrill get to their heads, [[FridgeHorror it wouldn't be unlikely that they would join the club to torture people for kicks after growing tired of sex themselves.]]]]
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Anyone who escapes from Elite Hunting, Axelle.]]
* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:The Dutch Businessman]] despite being a cold-hearted murderer and torturer appears to be a very devoted father.
* PreMortemOneLiner:
--> '''Beth''': Na zdrowie. [[note]]"Bless you" in English. - "For your health" literally. For bit of irony.[[/note]]

* RevengeByProxy: [[spoiler:Paxton kidnaps and possibly off-screen kills the Dutch businessman's daughter to avenge the deaths of Josh and Oli in the directors cut only.]]
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Subverted, since it was rather based on a completely un-substantiated internet rumor of Americans being snatched up and sold to torturous thrill-seekers in central and Eastern Europe, but never has any evidence been given to support it. It did touch on the widely-reported popular travel-scam of attractive local woman in Central and Eastern European cities HoneyTrap-ing young male tourists, but that often just leads to going to an old-town bar with elevator-only access and massively inflated bills, rather than seducing and then selling them off when inebriated to be tortured to death.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Josh]], who in the DevelopingDoomedCharacters part of the first film is presented as genuinely nice and likeable, more just the tag-along than the complete hedonists his companions are.
* SayingTooMuch: Stuart accidentally lets slip the fact that he knows Beth's name, despite the fact that she'd never given it. He [[HandWave hand waves]] her suspicions by claiming that he had overheard her friends talking.
* ScarsAreForever: And hands and eyes don't grow back. This is presumably why [[spoiler:Kana is DrivenToSuicide after looking at her injuries in a mirror]].
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Beth's penultimate attempt to escape capture, [[spoiler:before she realizes exactly what the rules are.]]
* SeveredHeadSports: The second film ends with [[spoiler:a group of juvenile delinquents playing soccer with the head of the woman that betrayed the protagonist and her friends to an organization of serial killers.]]
* ShoutOut:
** When the men in part I arrive at the hostel, ''Film/PulpFiction'' is playing on the television in the lobby. The Hostel movies were produced by Quentin Tarantino, who directed Pulp Fiction. Also, [[spoiler:Paxton seeing Natalya, Svetlana, and Alexi in the road - and running them over with his car - references Butch running over Marcellus Wallace.]]
** The use of "Willow's Song" from ''Film/TheWickerMan1973'' is also an ominous bit of foreshadowing.
* SlashedThroat: How Ms. Bathory finishes off her victim.
* SoundtrackDissonance: Carmen's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs0E2CufQ7c Habanera]] plays while a cannabalistic old man eats [[spoiler: Miroslav]] alive.
* SplatterHorror: ''Hostel'' was the first movie of the TorturePorn resurgence of splatter horror in the 2000s.
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Paxton is decapitated offscreen during the beginning of Part II.]]

* TearOffYourFace: This is [[spoiler:Mike's]] fate in ''Hostel III''.

* ToThePain: The businessman who wanted to be a surgeon.
* TooDumbToLive: The men in Hostel Part I. The women in Hostel Part II however are notable aversions of this. It doesn't help.
* TorturePorn: Along with the ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' franchise, this is one of the more notable examples of the modern TorturePorn genre.

* UnwillingSuspension: In the second movie, Lorna (played by Heather Matarazzo), is suspended upside down over what looks suspiciously like a bathtub. What follows is a recreation of the UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory legend.
* TheVamp: Natalya and Svetlana.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:The Dutch Businessman while being attacked by Paxton, to the point of [[Main/VillainsWantMercy pathetically begging for his life]] when he recognizes Paxton from his reflection.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''The Dutch Businessman:''' (''sees Paxton's reflection'') NO, PLEAS-]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Paxton:''' (''slices his neck'')]]
** [[spoiler:In an alternate ending, the Dutch Businessman has an AdultFear-induced one when his daughter was kidnapped by Paxton, panicking trying to find her before [[ScreamMyName screaming her name]] in anguish to a point it made him UnintentionallySympathetic as an AlasPoorVillain moment for him, hence the ending change.]]
* VivaLasVegas: The setting of ''III''.
* VomitIndiscretionShot and VomitDiscretionShot: Paxton throws up while wearing a ballgag. Very little comes out until his torturer takes the gag off.

* WouldHurtAChild: In the director's cut of the first film, Paxton doesn't kill the German businessman, he kidnaps his daughter.

The series centers around Elite Hunting, a secret society of torture clubs, which use Eastern European hostels (basically cheap dorm-style hotels for tourists) and [[HoneyTrap local women]] to capture victims for the wealthy to kill and torture at their leisure. Each film features similarly unwitting American protagonists who wind up in the clutches of the society while embarking on hedonistic journeys; while the first and second use college students backpacking through Europe, the third [[RecycledInSpace creates a site of operation out of Las Vegas]].

All three films utilize the same style of horror, containing Roth's [[SignatureStyle pre-established likings]] for prominent {{splatter|Horror}} elements and the occasional BlackComedy, this time presented through the world of extreme torture. In fact, it was the first film that was among the flock that [[TropeCodifier directly inspired]] the coining of the term "TorturePorn". While its actual applicability to this series is, to say the least, [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment a contentious subject]], all three films are definitely not to be watched while [[NauseaFuel eating a bowl of spaghetti]].

''Hostel'' was Roth's first project following the success of ''Film/CabinFever'', and assisted in no small portion by the aforementioned Tarantino, a BigNameFan of the film, who pushed Roth to create an original story as he was receiving various directorial offers on horror remakes.

The ''Hostel'' trilogy is a series of horror films originated by Creator/EliRoth, released between 2005 and 2011. While Roth wrote, directed and co-produced the first and second films (both notably "presented" by Creator/QuentinTarantino), the third was made without Roth's involvement at all, being directed by Scott Spiegel instead and released DirectToVideo.

''Hostel'' was Roth's first project following the success of ''Film/CabinFever'', and assisted in no small portion by the aforementioned Tarantino, a BigNameFan of the film, who pushed Roth to create an original story in lieu of the various directorial offers on horror remakes coming his way.

All three films utilize the same style of horror, containing Roth's [[SignatureStyle pre-established likings]] for prominent {{splatter|Horror}} elements and the occasional [[BlackComedy dark wit]], this time presented through the world of extreme torture. In fact, it was the first film that was among the flock that [[TropeCodifier directly inspired]] the coining of the term "TorturePorn". While its actual applicability to this series is, to say the least, [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment a contentious subject]], all three films are definitely not to be watched while [[NauseaFuel eating a bowl of spaghetti]].

The series centers around Elite Hunting, a secret society of torture clubs, which use Eastern European hostels (basically cheap dorm-style hotels for tourists) and [[HoneyTrap local women]] to capture victims for the wealthy to kill and torture at their leisure. Each film features similarly unwitting American protagonists who wind up in the clutches of the society while embarking on hedonistic journeys; while the first and second use college students backpacking through Europe, the third [[RecycledInSpace uses Las Vegas as a site for the society's operations to Las Vegas]].

''Hostel'' was Roth's first project following the success of ''Film/CabinFever'', and assisted in no small portion by the aforementioned Tarantino, a BigNameFan of the film, who pushed Roth to create an original story in lieu of the glut of directorial offers on horror remakes coming his way.

The ''Hostel'' trilogy is a series of horror films originated by Creator/EliRoth, released between 2005 and 2011. While Roth wrote, directed, and co-produced the first and second films (both notably "presented" by Creator/QuentinTarantino), the third was made without Roth's involvement at all, being directed by Scott Spiegel instead and released DirectToVideo.

The series centers around Elite Hunting, a secret society of torture clubs, which use Eastern European hostels (basically cheap dorm-style hotels for tourists) and [[HoneyTrap local women]] to capture victims for the wealthy to kill and torture at their leisure. Each film features similarly unwitting American protagonists who wind up in the clutches of the society while embarking on hedonistic journeys; while the first and second use college students backpacking through Europe, the third [[RecycledInSpace uses Las Vegas]] as a site for the society's operation.

* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: During Lorna's torture, Mrs. Bathory cuts off her gag just to hear the poor thing beg for her life before she [[BloodBath bathes in her blood.]] Judging by the woman's reaction, this only arouses her even more.

The ''Hostel'' trilogy is a series of horror films released between 2005 and 2011. While the series was originated by Creator/EliRoth, who wrote, directed, and co-produced the first and second films (which both carried a snazzy "Creator/QuentinTarantino presents" label), the third was made without Roth's involvement at all, being directed by Scott Spiegel instead and released DirectToVideo.

The series centers around Elite Hunting, a secret society of torture clubs, which use Eastern European hostels (basically cheap dorm-style hotels for tourists) and [[HoneyTrap local women]] to capture victims for the wealthy to kill and torture at their leisure. Each film features similarly unwitting American protagonists who wind up in the clutches of the society while embarking on hedonistic journeys; while the first and second use Americans backpacking through Europe, the third [[RecycledInSpace uses Las Vegas as a site for the society's operation]].

All three films utilize the same style of horror, containing Roth's [[Film/CabinFever pre-established]] [[SignatureStyle likings]] for prominent {{splatter|Horror}} elements and the occasional [[BlackComedy dark wit]], this time presented through the world of [[ColdBloodedTorture extreme torture]]. In fact, it was the first film that was among the flock that [[TropeCodifier directly inspired]] the coining of the term "TorturePorn". While its actual applicability to this series is, to say the least, [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment a contentious subject]], all three films are definitely not to be watched while [[NauseaFuel eating a bowl of spaghetti]].

The ''Hostel'' trilogy is a series of horror films released between 2005 and 2011. While the series was originated by Creator/EliRoth, who wrote, directed, and co-produced the first and second films (which both carried a snazzy "Creator/QuentinTarantino presents" label), the third was made without Roth's production at all, being directed by Scott Spiegel instead and released DirectToVideo.

The series revolves around Elite Hunting, a secret society of torture clubs, which use Eastern European hostels (basically cheap dorm-style hotels for tourists) and [[HoneyTrap local women]] to capture victims for the wealthy to kill and torture at their leisure.

All three center around the same style of horror, containing Roth's [[Film/CabinFever pre-established]] [[SignatureStyle likings]] for prominent {{splatter|Horror}} elements and occasional [[BlackComedy pitch-black wit]], this time presented through the world of [[ColdBloodedTorture extreme torture]]. In fact, it was the first film that was among the flock that [[TropeCodifier directly inspired]] the coining of the term "TorturePorn". While its actual applicability to this series is, to say the least, [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment a contentious subject]], all three films are definitely not to be watched while [[NauseaFuel eating a bowl of spaghetti]].

Not surprisingly, the film has been heavily censored in various countries and lambasted by the Czech Republic and Slovakia for their portrayal in the film. (It gets worse: The movie was not only set in Slovakia and filmed in the Czech Republic, it sports people with Russian names (uncommon thereabouts), speaking Russian, and dressed in uniforms that are probably from Ukraine. Also, it portrays the countries as they were in the late 1980s. No wonder both countries were offended.)

It should be noted that real-life hostels are emphatically ''not'' torture-chambers of any description. While they once had a reputation for being rather disreputable (in that they were largely unpoliced and prone to incidents of theft), recent efforts and gentrification have succeeded in revitalizing the modern hostel as a safe, secure, and family-oriented location.

The ''Hostel'' trilogy is a series of horror films released between 2005 and 2011. While the series was originated by Creator/EliRoth, who wrote, directed, and co-produced the first and second films (the first carrying a snazzy "Creator/QuentinTarantino presents" label), the third was made without Roth's production at all, being directed by Scott Spiegel instead and released DirectToVideo.

All three center around the same style of horror, containing Roth's [[Film/CabinFever pre-established]] [[SignatureStyle likings]] for prominent {{splatter|Horror}} elements and occasional [[BlackComedy pitch-black wit]], this time presented through the world of [[ColdBloodedTorture extreme torture]].

In fact, it was the first film that was among the flock that [[TropeCodifier directly inspired]] the coining of the term "TorturePorn". While its actual applicability to this series is, to say the least, [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment a contentious subject]], all three films are not to be watched while [[NauseaFuel eating a bowl of spaghetti]].

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''Hostel'' is a 2005 horror/TorturePorn movie by Creator/EliRoth and produced by Creator/QuentinTarantino.

The film (and its sequels) revolve around Elite Hunting, a secret society of torture clubs, which use Eastern European hostels (basically cheap dorm-style hotels for tourists) and [[HoneyTrap local women]] [[DeadlyRoadTrip to capture victims]] for the wealthy to kill and torture at their leisure.

The first film featured male victims while the second film features female victims of the organization. A third film, which relocates the series to UsefulNotes/LasVegas, was released DirectToVideo in 2011. All three films are not to be watched while [[NauseaFuel eating a bowl of spaghetti]].

* ForTheEvulz: This is basically the sole motivation of the Elite Hunting's customers for horribily torture and kill innocent captives.
* EntitledToHaveYou: In ''Part III'', [[spoiler:Carter feels this way about Scott’s fiancé Amy, which is why he wants to [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill Scott]].]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[The Dutch Businessman is possibly the most brutal character of the whole 1st movie but he's shown to deeply love his little daughter. In an alternate ending he goes into a desperate VillainousBreakdowwn after Paxton kidnaps her as an act of vengeance.]]

* DepravedBisexual: Mrs. Bathory
* DepravedHomosexual: [[spoiler:The Dutch Businessman. Possibly Axelle who may be lesbian or at least bi or maybe using her sexuality to manipulate Beth and maybe depraved. Or maybe she's just ruthless.]]