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Hostel, a tourists-in-peril-in-a-foreign-country thriller that has become a charter member of the so-called torture porn horror sub-genre, opens at number one at the box-office. Written and directed by Eli Roth, the film stars Jay Hernandez and Derek Richardson as a couple of American college students whose sex and booze themed European vacation turns into a living nightmare when they are kidnapped and placed on the menu of a secret Slovakian torture facility where well-heeled, anonymous businessmen come to satisfy their sickest fantasies. Despite the de rigueur bloody decapitations and attendant viscera, a surprisingly taut, nail-biting thriller.
