The guys get their sexual touchdown, but then the full horror begins to dawn: the women are honey-trap bait for a horrifying torture ring. There is a very silly cameo by the cult Japanese director Takashi Miike, whose torture-classic Audition is evidently admired by Roth. But Audition is a genuine political satire, brilliantly constructed and with a level of imagination, psychological acuity and hardcore provocation that goes way beyond Hostel, whose attempts at black comedy fall with a dull thud, like one of the many dismembered limbs.
This film has nothing to compare with the recent Australian horror Wolf Creek or the American freakout spectacular Saw or the French nightmare Tzameti. What it has is oodles of gore and great-looking guys getting it on with great-looking women who are moralistically revealed later to look much less hot without their makeup. It's a bit of a DVD rental -- and depressingly yucky.
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