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  • Hostel (2005)
    Review preview for Hostel

    Hostel is, on one level, your standard slice-and-dice bloodbath... but it's also a startlingly brazen attack on America's sense of entitlement.

    The Exile · 3.5 out of 5
    Teen backpackers get more than they bargain for in sex-fuelled horror.
  • Hostel: Part II (2007)
    Review preview for Hostel: Part II

    The scenario piles improbability upon improbability in an attempt to introduce fresh twists to an already exhausted premise.

    Keith Hennessey Brown · 2.5 out of 5
    A bunch of annoying American students get tricked by stereotypical Eastern Europeans.

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