When she goes to look for him, she finds his decapitated body in the kitchen with the cat licking the severed neck. Stephanie falls asleep again, but in the morning, she discovers that Paxton isn't next to her in bed. He goes downstairs to take his medication and eat something (he has to take his medicine with a bit of food).
After a short discussion with his girlfriend Stephanie in which he tells her that he can't go to the police as the EHC has connections everywhere in the world. Paxton awakes in America, revealing that the segment was, in fact, a dream. He takes a knife and cuts out an organ of Paxton.
He strips up his sleeve and shows him the infamous bloodhound tattoo as two men push Paxton down. Realizing that something is wrong, Paxton tries to get up while his interrogator comes closer and suddenly ask in English if the tattoo of the EHC members, looks anything like his. The man reveals that they have found the corpse of the Dutch businessman in the toilet in Vienna, while the policeman nods and locks the door. He reveals what happened in Slovakia and what he discovered about the EHC before he could escape from the factory. While he speaks German, she translates it to English and they ask about what happened to his hand. One day, he is visited by a man and his interpreter. Having survived the horrors of the EHC, Paxton is still recovering from his wounds in a hospital near Austria. When he wakes up tied to a chair with a spastic German man whizzing a chainsaw over him, Paxton eventually pieces together that they have been kidnapped for use in torture rituals by wealthy customers who pay to abuse and kill pretty young tourists.Warning: this text contains details about the plot/ending of the film. Soon enough, everyone is drunk and having sex, and one by one, the boys disappear. Still, the boys' cockiness only escalates when they meet a few girls who do indeed seem enthralled with them, in particular Natalya (Barbara Nedeljáková) and Svetlana (Jana Kaderabkova). Here they're forewarned of the mayhem to come when a fellow traveler, an older Dutchman (Jan Vlasák), makes an unwanted pass at Josh. The boys are thrilled to learn from the ultra-skeezy Alex (Lubomir Silhavecky) that a hostel in Slovakia promises even more loose girls and more potent drugs. In Amsterdam, they're amazed by the availability of sex, marijuana, and hash, all of these indulgences featured in graphic imagery. Characters use frequent foul language (over 100 uses of "f-k," derogatory terms like "f-got").Īmerican backpackers Paxton (Jay Hernandez) and Josh (Derek Richardson) are traveling with their new friend Oli (Eythor Gudjonsson), each trying hard to impress the others with his capacity for partying. 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. These violent scenes are preceded by a sojourn in Amsterdam featuring bare breasts and one frontal nudity shot. 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.