Hostel earns $20m topping the US box office
Wednesday, January 11th, 2006
A low-budget, ultra-violent horror film ‘Hostel’ topped the US box office this weekend, generating $20.1m on its debut, in front of rivals such as King Kong, The Chronicles of Narnia and Munich.
A group of backpacking American college students visit a brothel in Slovakia, where they encounter not eastern European beauties but the buzz of chainsaws – has received mixed reviews.
Horror films have come in and out of favour in Hollywood since the release of silent-era classics, such as Dracula. Hostel has been billed as the first of a new generation of intensely violent US horror films, following a recent trend in Japan and harkening back to the American “slasher” pictures of the 1980s.