moving train with the Dutch businessman's daughter, whom he has kidnapped. Cast Jay Hernandez as Paxton Rodriguez Derek Richardson as Josh Brooks Eyþór Guðjónsson as Óli Eriksson Jennifer Lim as Kana Barbara Nedeljáková as Natalya Jana Kaderabkova as Svetlana Jan Vlasák as The Dutch Businessman Rick Hoffman as The American Client Keiko Seiko as Yuki Lubomir Bukovy as Alexei Jana Havlickova as Vala Petr Janiš as Johann, the German Surgeon Takashi Miike as The Japanese Sadist Patrik Zigo as The Bubblegum Gang Leader Milda "Jedi" Havlas as Desk Clerk Jedi Miroslav Táborský as Police officer Josef Bradna as The Butcher Eli Roth as American Stoner Production After the release of Cabin Fever (2002), Eli Roth was met with praise from several industry figures, including Quentin Tarantino, who placed the film in his 'Top 10' of the year and immediately reached out to Roth in hopes of working with him on a future project. Roth was offered many studio directing jobs, mostly in the form of horror remakes such as The Last House on the Left, The Fog, and a film in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise, among several others, but Tarantino advised him to turn down those offers to instead create an original horror story. While swimming in Tarantino's pool, Roth brainstormed an idea for a low-budget horror film based on a Thai "murder vacation" website he came across on the dark web. Tarantino loved the idea and encouraged Roth to immediately start writing a draft that day, which later formed the basis for Hostel. Roth had originally debated creating the film in the style of a fake documentary that would incorporate real people and locations from supposed real underground "murder vacation" spots. When hardly any credible information could be found on the topic, the idea was scrapped in favor of a traditionally flowing narrative using fictional locations and characters. Principal photography took place in the Czech Republic, and many scenes were shot in Český Krumlov. The torture chamber scenes were filmed in the wing of a Prague hospital that had been abandoned since 1918. The original music score was composed by Nathan Barr, who previously scored Cabin Fever, and commissioned The Prague FILMharmonic Orchestra to perform the score over a four-day period in October 2005. Another one of Roth's ideas was that it would have an NC-17 rating, which he hoped would help boost the film's notoriety and marketing.