Hostel (Blu-ray) (2006)

Uncut
"[I]t's devastatingly effective....It's hands-over-your-eyes horrible, toe-curlingly savage and, eventually, strangely haunting." 05/01/2006 p.142

Sight and Sound
"HOSTEL confirms Roth as one of the brighter hopes for mainstream horror....His troubling climax lets us wallow in violent retribution." 05/01/2006 p.56

Total Film
3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] backpackers-in-peril shocker that's happiest pummeling the gut..." 09/01/2006 p.101

Uncut
4 stars out of 5 -- "[A]kin to '70s horror classics like NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD or THE HILLS HAVE EYES, mordant allegories, cruelly funny." 09/01/2006 p.126

Ultimate DVD
4 stars out of 5 -- "An excruciating, chilling and supremely entertaining horror thriller." 09/01/2006 p.190

Variety 8 of 10
With a style as high as its body count -- plus the imprimatur of gore connoisseur and presenting entity Quentin Tarantino -- "Hostel" may become something of a classic among Fangoria magazine's readership, acolytes of George Romero and audiences who thought "Saw II" was for babies...One of the better looking horror films of recent vintage, "Hostel"...begins as a dream and turns into a nightmare...Wisely, perhaps, Roth has given us principal characters who are dislikable enough so that the threat of their imminent demise isn't all that troubling. Oli is a lout, Paxton is a foul-mouthed fratboy and Josh is a social incompetent -- characteristics which should have clued them in a lot earlier that something was amiss when Miss Slovakia and her first runner-up (Barbara Nedeljakova, Jana Kaderabkova) come on to them so strongly...But such are the delusions of characters in horror movies who don't realize that they're going to be chopped meat even when they can hear the hum of the chainsaw in their ears. - John Anderson