"In talking to Americans, I realized they have absolutely no idea that Slovakia exists,” Roth said. The premise of Americans being tortured and killed in Slovakia rankled the Eastern European country so much that Roth held a press conference to assuage the Slovakians, who felt the image portrayed in the film would prevent tourists from visiting their country. SLOVAKIA WASN’T HAPPY WITH THE WAY ROTH DEPICTED THEIR COUNTRY. A lot of those guys want to be macho and tough all the time, they don’t want to sit there and be crying like a baby when they’re about to die in a movie, and Jay was willing to do that." 4. What I also felt about Jay was that he was willing to make himself vulnerable. He’s just somebody who throws himself in the role. He has that quality, that very natural style of acting. “The thing about Jay is he’s really like a real guy. “I wanted people who felt like guys I went to college with, grew up with, people that I know,” Roth told Dread Central. Roth didn’t want a pretty boy actor, and responded to Hernandez’s realness. Jay Hernandez plays Paxton, and of course gets tortured.
ELI ROTH CAST JAY HERNANDEZ BECAUSE OF HIS EVERYMAN LOOK. This could be a classic American horror movie.’” Miike, who directed the 1999 Japanese torture porn film Audition, has a cameo in Hostel. Go to Europe and make it as sick as you want to make it … This could be your Takashi Miike film. “'I’m at this weird place where I’m being offered to direct studio movies.' And he’s like, ‘Well, what ideas are you working on?’ I told him, this and this and this, and I said, ‘Well, then there’s this other thing,’ and I told him the idea for Hostel and he was like, ‘Are you f*cking kidding me? That’s the sickest f*cking idea I have ever heard. “I said to Quentin, ‘You know, I kind of just don’t know what to do now,” Roth told Dread Central. Tarantino loved Cabin Fever and invited Roth over to his house to hang out with him. QUENTIN TARANTINO TALKED ELI ROTH INTO MAKING HOSTEL.Īfter Roth’s feature debut, Cabin Fever, was a hit, Roth wasn’t sure which project to take on next.
That’s why I made Amsterdam purposefully look like an X-rated Disneyland.” 2. “I saw parallels between guys I knew who would go to Europe or even go to Vegas and go, ‘Yeah, we’re gonna go get hookers and do drugs,’ or ‘We’re gonna go to Amsterdam,’ and it’s kind of this American thing of going abroad and doing all these things you’re not supposed to do. In writing the script, Roth used real-life debauchery as an inspiration. Someone is thinking about this and went so far as to create a website about it.” “My point was like, well, somebody thought of it. “It was to give you the thrill of taking another human life.” Roth didn’t know if the site was real, and at one point he wanted to make a documentary about it, but decided against it. “The site claimed that the person you were killing had signed up for it and that part of the money would go to their family because they were so broke and were gonna die anyway,” Roth told Dread Central. THE PREMISE FOR HOSTEL CAME FROM A DISTURBING WEBSITE.Īin’t It Cool News founder Harry Knowles told Roth about a website where you pay $10,000 to go to Thailand and shoot a stranger in the head for sport. Here a 11 grotesque facts about the horror film.
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The movie proved to be successful enough that it led to two sequels: Hostel: Part II was released in 2007 with a similar premise (it grossed much less than its predecessor), and Hostel: Part III-which Roth wasn’t involved with it-takes place in Vegas and went straight to DVD in 2011. Though the film takes places in Slovakia, it was filmed in the Czech Republic.
Written and directed by Eli Roth and executive-produced by Quentin Tarantino, the 2005 film is known for its intense sex and violence. Hostel, a horror film about a group of college-aged backpackers who stay at a hostel in Slovakia, had a budget of $4.8 million but grossed $80,578,934 worldwide, helping to revitalize the “ torture porn” genre of the late 1990s and mid-aughts.
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