Hostel (Director's Cut) (DVD)
- Starring: Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Eythor Gudjonsson, Barbara Nedeljakova, Jana Kaderabkova, Jan Vlasák, Jennifer Lim, Lubomir Silhavecky, Lubomir Bukovy, Petr Janis, Jana Havlickova, Vanessa Jungova, Rick Hoffman, Philip Waley
- Director: Eli Roth
- Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Rating: Unrated
- Running Time: 1 hr. 34 mins.
- Release Date: October 23, 2007
Relentlessly graphic and deeply disturbing, the film is sure to shock even the most hardcore horror genre fans. Hostel tells the story of two American college buddies Paxton and Josh who backpack through Europe eager to make hazy travel memories with new friend Oli, an Icelander they’ve met along the way. Paxton, Josh, and Oli are eventually lured by a fellow traveler to what’s described as a nirvana for American backpackers – a particular hostel in an out-of-the-way Slovakian town stocked with Eastern European women as desperate as they are gorgeous. The two friends arrive and soon easily pair off with exotic beauties Natalya and Svetlana. In fact, too easily…
Initially distracted by the good time they’re having, the two friends quickly find themselves trapped in an increasingly sinister situation that they will discover is as wide and as deep as the darkest, sickest recess of human nature itself – if they survive.
· Director and Guests’ Commentary with Roth, actors Barbara Nedeljakova and Eythor Gudjonsson, editor George Folsey, Jr. and journalist Harry Knowles
· Director and Producers’ Commentary with Roth, producer Chris Biggs and documentarian Gabriel Roth
· Director’s Commentary with Roth
· Music and Sound - Composer Nathan Barr takes us inside his studio and shows viewers his different instruments and how they were used for the film
· Set Design – A tour of conceptual drawings and sets used to create the film’s unsettling backdrop
· KNB Effects – The KNB EFX Group discusses the films horrific visual effects
· An Icelandic Meal with Actor Eythor Gudjonsson – Gudjonsson (Hostel) shares a bit of the Icelandic culture while enjoying one of the nation’s peculiar delicacies
· Takashi Miike Interview - An interview with noted film director Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer, Audition) who makes an appearance in the film
· "Hostel Dismembered" – International TV special
· "The Treatment" – KCRW radio interview with Roth by Elvis Mitchell
· "Kill The Car" multi-angle featurette
· "Hostel Dissected" – A three part behind-the-scenes featurette
· Ten deleted scenes
· Four photo galleries hand-picked by Roth
· Option to choose between the theatrical or Director’s Cut endings
