Hostel

Hostel is a 2005 horror/TorturePorn movie by Eli Roth and produced by Quentin Tarantino.

The film (and its sequel) revolve around a secret society of torture clubs, which use Eastern European hostels (basically cheap dorm-style hotels for tourists) and local women 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 Las Vegas, was released Direct to Video in 2011. All three films not to be watched while eating a bowl of spaghetti.

Not surprisingly, the film has been heavily censored in various countries and lambasted by The Czech Republic for their portrayal in the film. (It gets worse: The movie is said to be in Slovakia, was filmed in the Czech Republic, 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 late 1980's. 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.

Provides examples of:
""Let him bleed to death.""
 * Action Girl: Beth in Part II is more Badass than any previous protagonists by a fair margin --
 * And I Must Scream
 * The Bad Guy Wins - Played straight in both films.
 * Berserk Button - Beth, when someone calls her a cunt.
 * Bilingual Bonus - Many of the scenes include dialogue spoken in untranslated foreign languages--most notably, a speech delivered by the main character towards his torturer in German.
 * Blood Bath - 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 Shout Out to the Trope Maker.
 * Broken Heel - Or sliced.
 * The Can Kicked Him - The awesome climax.
 * Car Fu - During the escape scene.
 * Chainsaw Good
 * Chekhov's Hobby - Beth's fortune. Beth was revealed to hold a vast fortune, the point of its mention not made clear until later.
 * Cold Blooded Torture - A lot.
 * Creepy Children - The Bubblegum Gang.
 * Death By Sex - Averted, the only survivor of the first movie
 * To be fair,
 * Although, in the second film, the
 * Developing Doomed Characters - Go ahead, admit it. Ten minutes into the movie, you were crossing your fingers in hopes that they would all just die already.
 * Driven to Suicide -
 * Eye Scream - Kana, the Japanese girl.
 * Face Heel Turn -  of Part II. He was Evil All Along, but only "discovered" himself near the end.
 * Fan Disservice - Well, obviously. One specific example, though, in Part II: Heather Matarazzo has a very nice body. It would be great to see her do a straight (or not so straight) nude scene..
 * Fatal Family Photo - Both  on the train.
 * Fingore -.
 * 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.
 * Groin Attack: . With garden shears.
 * Groin Attack: . With garden shears.


 * Heel Face Turn:
 * Redemption Equals Death.
 * Hell Hotel - well, yeah.
 * Hoist By His Own Petard -
 * Also,
 * Honeytrap:
 * Horror Films
 * I'm a Humanitarian - The old man briefly seen in the sequel. He slowly cuts away at  leg, puts it on a plate, and happily eats away at a table in the background.
 * And he was played by Ruggero Deodato.
 * Improvised Weapon - There are some interesting tools on the tables...
 * It Gets Worse -.
 * Japanese Tourist - Kana & Yuki.
 * Karma Houdini
 * Karmic Death:
 * Kill the Cutie -
 * The Killer Becomes the Killed -
 * Les Yay - Between Axelle and Beth.
 * Madness Mantra - I'm not that guy... I'm not that guy... I'm not that guy...
 * Masquerade - The titular hostel and its workers.
 * The Mole -
 * My God What Have I Done -  is overcome with guilt at his actions.
 * Off With His Head -
 * Playing Against Type - Roger Bart, who, Desperate Housewives aside, tends to play bright and friendly roles as the villain of the second film. And he still mostly seems nice.
 * Revenge - Dished out in spades, when possible.
 * Revenge By Proxy -
 * Saying Too Much - Stuart accidentally lets slip the fact that he knows Beth's name, despite the fact that she'd never given it. He Hand Waves her suspicions by claiming that he had overheard her friends talking.
 * Scars Are Forever - And hands & eyes don't grow back.
 * Screw the Rules I Have Money - Beth's penultimate attempt to escape capture,
 * Shout Out - When the men in part I arrive at the hostel, Pulp Fiction is playing on the television in the lobby. The Hostel movies were produced by Quentin Tarantino, who directed Pulp Fiction.
 * Soundtrack Dissonance - Carmen's Habanera plays while a cannabalistic old man eats  alive.
 * Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome -
 * The Vamp: Natalya and Svetlana
 * To the Pain - The businessman who wanted to be a surgeon.
 * Too Dumb to Live - The men is Hostel Part I. The women in Hostel Part II however are notable aversions of this. It doesn't help.
 * Torture Porn: Along with the Saw franchise, this is one of the more notable examples of the modern Torture Porn genre.
 * Town With a Dark Secret - The local "enterprise" employs quite a few people, including a police officer.
 * Unwilling Suspension: 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 Elizabeth Bathory legend.
 * Viva Las Vegas: The setting of III.
 * Vomit Indiscretion Shot and Vomit Discretion Shot
 * Vomit Indiscretion Shot and Vomit Discretion Shot