The picture of Jay Hernandez with this review was the sweetest picture I could find for one heckuva creepy-ass movie. Hernandez (Friday Night Lights) plays Paxton, who is backpacking across Europe with best friend Josh (Derek Richardson, Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd) and new friend Oli (newcomer Eythor Gudjonsson). They get a tip that there are lots of hot girls who put out in Slovakia, so they hop on a train to take a side trip. Oh, yes, there are hot girls - but you'll pay a pretty price to sleep with one of them - try losing your life. Tourists are kidnapped and offered as sacrifices to depraved people who pay to kill a tourist in any way they'd like (which basically nvolves a lot of really grotesque torture). The movie is not quite as graphic as it could have been - a lot of it is left to your own imagination, as it happens just off the screen. Definitely a movie to check out if you like scary, creepy flicks.
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Trivia 1: The trailers bill the movie as "inspired by true events". Director Eli Roth (Cabin Fever) says that he found a Thai website that advertised itself as a "murder vacation," offering users the chance to torture and kill someone for the price of $10,000. Roth later showed the site to Quentin Tarantino and the two developed the idea for the film. Tarantino and Roth said later on an Icelandic talk show that they have no idea if the website was real or not.
Trivia 2: Eli Roth wrote the role of Oli for Eythor Gudjonsson after he met him doing press for 2002's Cabin Fever in Iceland. Roth was so taken with Eythor's charisma and charm, he promised he'd make put him in a movie one day. Eythor was surprised when he saw that Roth had followed through with his promise, and happily accepted the role.