How do the three meet Alexie?
The three friends are having a great time in Europe. They are drinking and visiting nightclubs and brothels, but they can’t get back to their hostel because they have a curfew. They meet Alexie, who offers them to spend the night at his apartment.
Alexie tells the men that instead of going to Barcelona, they should check out a hostel in Slovakia that is full of beautiful women. He’s shown them a couple of pictures from his time in Slovakia, and they see nothing but rainbows. The men make up their minds to go to Slovakia based off of Alexie’s recommendation. ..
Is the way to Slovakia without incident?
The three passengers on the train are met with a strange man who seems to be anything but normal. He is eating his meal with his hands, and later touches Josh’s leg. Josh angrily yells at him. He leaves immediately.
At the hostel, they find two local girls, Natalya and Svetlana. They go places together and have fun. In one instance, the Dutch businessman saves Josh from local criminal kids. Josh is grateful and apologizes to the man for his aggressive behaviour on the train. ..
Óli’s disappearance throws the small town into chaos. Everyone is worried about him and what could have happened to him. No one knows where he could be, or why he would have disappeared. ..
What happened with Óli?
After a wild night out, Óli is nowhere to be found the next morning. While Paxton and Josh are looking for Óli, they meet a Japanese girl, Kana – who tells them that her friend Yuki also disappeared the same way. The next scene takes us to a horrific location where Óli’s body is shown decapitated and Yuki is being tortured. ..
Josh and Paxton are relieved after the women leave. They realize that their world has been turned upside down.
What happens with Paxton and Josh?
Paxton wakes up to find himself locked in a pantry. Josh, meanwhile, finds himself in a bizarre room where the Dutchman begins drilling him with a drill machine. Holes are made, body parts are sliced, and whatnot. ..
Paxton returns to the hostel and finds Natalya and Svetlana. Natalya tricks Paxton into joining her to an old factory where the gruesome realities of the Slovak city are uncovered. After spotting Josh’s decapitated body, Paxton soon realizes he has been entrapped. He knows if he doesn’t do something immediately he would suffer the same fate as his friend.
How does Paxton escape?
A German client prepares Paxton to be tortured. The man cuts off two of his fingers with a chainsaw, but the saw slips and falls over, freeing Paxton’s hands. Unable to control the saw, the man unintentionally frees Paxton’s hands and falls over with the chainsaw severing his own leg. Paxton kills the man and a guard before donning the factory uniform to subdue suspicion. ..
After discovering a business card of Elite Business Club, he is certain the old factory is nothing but a playground where people with twisted fantasies come to enjoy torturing and mutilating tourists in return for some payment. Paxton spots Kana who is also being tormented by another client of the club. Initially reluctant, Paxton goes back and kills the man to save Kana. He steals a car with Kana and runs for his life. He is chased by the factory guards. During the run, he runs over Natalya, Svetlana, and Alexei. Paxton manages to get away from the factory guards and drives to a nearby town in order to find help. However, when he arrives there he finds that it has been taken over by zombies! ..
Paxton encounters a group of criminal kids again, but this time he gives them some candy and gum. The kids kill the guards in return for the candy, and Paxton is able to escape with it.
How does Hostel end?
Paxton and Kana reach a train station – where Kana commits suicide after seeing her disfigured face. Paxton continues to struggle for his life. He boards a train – where he hears the Dutch businessman’s voice. Getting off, he follows the man to the restroom – where he tortures and kills him in the way the member of the Elite Hunting Club would do.
