Warning: if you choose to see the movie Hostel this weekend do not purchase the $10 popcorn and soda at the concession stand before the movie starts. You will lose your appetite.

Directed by Eli Roth(Cabin Fever), Hostel is your atypical horror flick that follows college friends Paxton (Jay Hernandez) and Josh (Derek Richardson), along with Icelander Oli (Eythor Gudjonsson) on their European quest for sex, drugs and alcohol.

Convinced by an Eastern European that Bratislava is the place where you can "pay to do anything," the trio leaves Amsterdam for what appears to be a modern representation of Transylvania (minus the vampires).

The guys reach the hostel where much to my disgust, it gave me the impression I was watching porn with the unwarranted nudity and sex scenes.

For the horny college kids, everything seems too good to be true -- that is, until people start disappearing without so much as a goodbye.

Forty-five minutes passed before I suspected I was indeed watching a horror film with torture scenes ranging anywhere from a blowtorch to the eye, to a cut to the Achilles tendon, to an electric screwdriver to the knee.

And as much as the graphic sex and gore made my stomach churn, Roth's unusual sense of humor with the gang of children ready-to-kill for candy, and the car chase and bloody revenge at the end was well done.

But I will hand it to Roth that even though the film was weak in its writing, I don't doubt the existence of torture houses or violent street urchins hungry for bubble gum.

For this film, it's the shock value that keeps this movie going, but how'd it get away with an R rating?

-- Reviewed by Sophia Gonzalez