Hostel is a 2005 horror film written and directed by Eli Roth and starring Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Eyþór Guðjónsson, and Barbara Nedeljáková. It was produced by Mike Fleiss, Roth, and Chris Briggs, and executive produced by Boaz Yakin, Scott Spiegel, and Quentin Tarantino. The film follows a group of international tourists traveling in Slovakia, where they are eventually taken one-by-one by an organization that offers wealthy clients the opportunity to torture and kill others. Hostel was released theatrically in the United States by Lions Gate Films on 6 January 2006, and in the Czech Republic by Falcon.