But if you look closely at the film, the people who are actually doing the worst things are other Americans. These people get punished for these beliefs. So Slovakia in the movie, it's not really Slovakia, it's movie Slovakia, and it's based on American stereotypes and these stereotypes, that the cars are old, the people are old, the telephones are old, these are the stereotypes that lure these guys into going there, they believe it and they pay for it. So when I said Slovakia I knew that Americans do not know the difference between the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Czechslovakia, it's just one big Eastern bloc where there's always a war going on. They still think it's some communist country from the 1950s. When I told people I was going to film in Prague, they said 'Oh, Czechoslovakia - bring toilet paper'. They do not travel, but they think they own the world, and their dollar will buy everything. The latest statistics I found was that 12 percent of Americans own a passport. "In talking to Americans, I realised they have absolutely no idea that Slovakia exists. So why had Eli Roth chosen to portray Slovakia in this way? The decision to set this gory film - which was made with Czech and Slovak actors - in Slovakia has caused some dismay among Slovaks, fighting to put their tiny and little known country on the map. I think it's a family movie, but maybe more for the Manson family." I wanted to make a movie that would be for adults and not for children. I miss the movies from the 1970s that Americans made, like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and I miss the movies the Italians made like Cannibal Holocaust and Sallow. I think American horror movies have gone soft in the last ten or fifteen years. If you don't like those types of movies you should stay far, far away from this one. "There's a lot of nudity and a lot violence in this film. ![]() Eli Roth told reporters what attracted him to the horror genre. But instead of beautiful and lust-crazed women, the three are abducted in their Hostel, sold to sadists and slowly tortured to death in a bloodsoaked orgy of sharp knives and power tools. ![]() Three backpackers - two American teenagers and one from Iceland - are traveling around Europe when they meet a man in Amsterdam, who tells them of a mysterious country deep in Eastern Europe, where the men are few and far between and the women plentiful and desperate to meet Westerners. Which is exactly what happens in "Hostel". I'm sure you have questions, and about why I made Slovakia look like all of a sudden it's from the 1950s, and what it might do to the tourist industry in Slovakia, and I look forward to answering all your questions and hopefully I will not get tortured to death." In America, Hostel is a very terrifying horror film for many people, but I truly believe it could become one of the great comedy classics here in Eastern Europe. It's very exciting for me to be here, especially since I know that there are some people from Slovakia who probably want to kill me for making this movie. Even before the film had opened some Slovaks were complaining to the authorities about the potential damage to the country's international image, and so when American director Eli Roth appeared at a packed press conference in Prague it was something of an event. ![]() This week it opens in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, and it's certainly been causing a stir. The movie knocked both the Chronicles of Narnia and King Kong off the top spot during its first weekend in the United States. ![]() Eli Roth, photo: CTK Set in Slovakia and filmed in the Czech Republic and Germany, "Hostel" tells the story of three backpackers who are abducted and sadistically murdered during a trip to Slovakia.
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