Hostel

    I believe people have lost their relationship with food. They do not think

         "this is something that died for me so that I would not go hungry."

                I like that connection with something you die for.

                           I appreciate it more.

The film is set in Amsterdam where backpackers Paxton, Josh and Óli meet Alexei, a Russian man who tells them about a Slovak hostel filled with American-loving, promiscuous women. Needing little convincing otherwise, the trio boards a train to Slovakia, where they meet a Dutch businessman long enough to be unnerved by his bizarre behavior. Upon arriving in Slovakia, the trio checks into the local hostel and discover themselves sharing a room with Natalya and Svetlana, two attractive, single women who entice the backpackers to bathe with them....before sleeping with them.....

The following morning, Óli is missing. A young Japanes backpacker named Kana also reports that her friend Yuki has disappeared. An text photo sent from Yuki's phone shows Yuki and Óli beneath a smokestack of an abandoned factory. As Josh and Paxton search for Óli, they receive a text message from Óli, containing his picture and the words "I go home" beneath it. Paxton and Josh decide to leave Bratislava with Kana the following day. Later that night, while partying with Natalya and Svetlana, Paxton and Josh succumb to the effects of alcohol. Josh returns to the hostel while Paxton passes out in the disco's storage room.

Josh wakes up handcuffed to a chair in a room and surrounded by power tools and weapons. The Dutch businessman enters in a leather apron and gloves and begins torturing Josh by drilling him into his thigh and other body parts. Despite Josh's pleas for his release, the businessman slices Josh's legs, allowing him to attempt an unsuccessful escape before finishing him off.

Across town, Paxton wakes up and returns to the hostel to find both Josh and Kana missing. In his room are a different pair of beautiful women inviting him to a spa, similar to Natalya's and Svetlana's offer from before. When the local police force proves unhelpful, Paxton locates Natalya and Svetlana at a bar and demands to be taken to his friends. Natalya and Paxton drive to a factory on the outskirts of the town and walk inside. There, he sees the Dutch Businessman standing over Josh's dead body, disecting Josh and looking at his internal organs. Paxton is then ambushed by two thugs and dragged down a hallway, witnessing other backpackers being tortured in adjacent cells by various "clients" before he is restrained in his own cell. Later, a German client appears and begins to torture Paxton, sawing off two of his fingers and part of his handcuffs before slipping on the slick floor and seriously wounding himself. Paxton breaks free, shoots the client with a nearby gun and conceals himself in the client's outfit.

Paxton escapes to the upper levels of the building into a locker room, where he can see police officers conspiring with the men outside. He disguises himself in the clothes of the previous client when he discovers a business card for Elite Hunting, now revealed as a secret, worldwide, murder-for-profit organization. An American businessman arrives and believing Paxton to be another client, discusses his victim and the techniques to kill her, leaving behind a firearm before exiting. Paxton steals the firearm and escapes to the courtyard when he hears a woman scream. Unable to ignore it, he returns to the factory and kills the American, now in the middle of torturing Kana. Paxton and Kana flee the factory in a stolen car and drive to the railway station. Arriving at the station, they see that the policemen and factory guards are waiting for them. Kana notices her disfigured reflection and unable to live with her hideous scars throws herself into the path of an incoming train, distracting the guards and allowing Paxton to escape aboard another train. Once aboard, Paxton hears the familiar voice of Josh's torturer, the Dutch businessman. As the train stops in Vienna, Paxton follows him to a restroom, where he mutilates the businessman, forcing him to beg for his life before murdering him and taking two of his fingers. Paxton leaves the restroom, boarding another train out of Austria......

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