Hostel fingerprintRelentless energy, striking style, emotionally cool.
Brutally violent and nerve-racking
Fast from start to finish.
Emotionally reserved
Serious throughout
Crime
Solid, not remarkable
Standout editing
Brutally violent and nerve-racking
Fast from start to finish.
Hostel is brutally violent, nerve-racking, and terrifying.
Emotionally reserved
It keeps its emotions at a distance.
Serious throughout
Expect almost no humor.
Solid, not remarkable
The craft is serviceable rather than remarkable.
Based on the GoodWatch fingerprint: our scores for 70+ attributes of every movie. Select a row to see all of them.
Welcome to your worst nightmare.
Overall: Similar vibe.
Quick answers from GoodWatch data.
Hostel is included with a subscription to Peacock, Philo, and Peacock Premium+ in the United States. You can watch it free with ads on Hoopla and Plex. You can also rent or buy it from Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, and YouTube. All links in Where to Watch go to these licensed services.
Opinions are mixed, with a GoodWatch score of 58/100 (IMDb 5.9, Rotten Tomatoes 60%, and Metacritic 55). The GoodWatch score combines critic and audience ratings.
It's rated R in the United States. Content advisories: violence, nudity, sexual content, strong language, and disturbing imagery.
1 h 34 min
Hostel runs 1 h 34 min.
Yes. Critics average 58 and audiences 58 out of 100, so both groups see Hostel much the same way.
Yes, a big one. It cost about $5 million to make and earned $82 million worldwide, 17.1 times its budget.
It was made in English, with some Icelandic, Japanese, German, Russian, Slovak, Dutch, Czech, Spanish. Produced in United States, Czechia.
+100GoodWatch finds legal streaming, rental, or purchase options for Hostel in 114 countries. Pick any of them in Where to Watch to see the local services.
TV Tropes lists 128 storytelling tropes for Hostel, including Tear Off Your Face, What Happened to the Mouse?, Chekhov's Skill.
5.9
