Characters use frequent foul language (over 100 uses of "f-k," derogatory terms like "f-got"). Characters smoke, drink, and do multiple sorts of drugs. Characters engage in boisterous sex, and a man makes a homosexual pass at an unwilling young man. Eythor Gudjonsson plays Icelandic teenager Oli, one of the three backpackers abducted and killed. But those involved in the movie say its a tongue-in-cheek examination of American attitudes to Europe. These violent scenes are preceded by a sojourn in Amsterdam featuring bare breasts and one frontal nudity shot. The Slovakia in Hostel is a wild, lawless place with children roaming the streets, corrupt policemen and loose women. One character throws herself in front of a train when she sees her disfigurement following torture. These images are graphic and bloody (severed limbs, penetrated genitals, sliced Achilles tendon, gouged eye, with weapons including scissors, chainsaws, knives, hammers, drills, clippers, guns, cars, and chairs). The premise and primary "plot" is torture - specifically, the torture of young travelers by wealthy adults who pay thousands of dollars for the experience. Parents need to know that Hostel is a 2006 horror movie in which a pair of American college guys backpacking through Europe in search of sex, drugs, and alcohol find themselves in a gory nightmare of sadistic torture.
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