![]() The two are approached by a Japanese woman named Kana, who shows them a photo of Óli and her friend Yuki, who is also missing. Paxton and Josh have sex with Natalya and Svetlana, while Óli leaves with the desk girl, Vala. Josh apologizes for his reaction on the train. The Dutch Businessman intervenes to defend him. Josh has a run in with a gang of local criminal kids. The women invite them to a spa, and later to a disco. Arriving in Slovakia, they find that their roommates in the hostel are two women, Natalya and Svetlana. The three board a train to Slovakia, where they encounter a Dutch Businessman, who touches Josh's leg. ![]() He convinces them that, instead of going to Barcelona, they should visit a hostel in Slovakia filled with beautiful women. Unable to get back into their hostel because of a curfew, they accept the offer of a man named Alexei to stay at his apartment. In the Netherlands, they visit an Amsterdam nightclub, followed by a brothel. Go figure.College students Paxton and Josh travel across Europe with their Icelandic friend Óli. It's actually nice, beautiful and people are friendly, look normal, beautiful, not as scary." Writer-Director Roth, whose debut horror film, Cabin Fever, made enough money to renovate Slovakia, is the son of a Harvard psychoanalyst and a veteran of seven years of Hebrew school. Luckily for the Slovak tourist industry, Barbara Nedelkova, who plays double-dealing slut #1, Natalya, set the record straight in a pre-release interview. The women are gorgeous, double-dealing sluts, the children roam about in murderous Clockwork Orange-type gangs, and the city of "Bratislava" (the film was shot in Prague) looks like the Economic Miracle happened elsewhere and there's no right side of the tracks. ![]() ![]() Slovak men are portrayed as either Crayola-necked geeks or massive brutes, "wild and crazy guys" who say things like, "I am king of the swing" and "Chill out, man, you're on wacation". Hostel, the new horror film directed by Eli Roth and "presented" (read flacked) by Roth's mentor/gray eminence Quentin Tarantino, is likely to do for Slovakia what Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat character did for Kazakhstan: provoke diplomatic outrage. ![]()
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