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Hostile
Rating: 2 Stars
Produced, written, and directed by Roland Dane. Videography by Saccany. Edited by Alexander Gray. Music by DJ Transistor. Starring Danny Roddick, Alex Chandler, Matt Stefan, Lucio Maverick, Fredy Costa, Mario McGabe, Akos Piros, Julian Vincenzo, Giovanni Floretto, Roland Dane, and others.
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Inevitably, the plot of Eli Roth's 2005 horror film Hostel, a jokey exercise in bondage-flavored nastiness, has been recycled for gay porn. The result is a miscalculation with occasional good moments. Because Hostile launches Colt's new European subsidiary, Olympus, it's too bad this offering isn't better.

Roland Dane served as producer, director, and scenarist, and appears in a non-sexual role as the principal villain. An ex-model best known for John Rutherford's Out of Athens (1998), Dane is still honing his skills as a director. Shot mostly in and around Budapest, Hostile plugs four hardcore sex scenes into the premise of Hostel; Dane handles sex more skillfully than spoken dialogue or non-erotic action. It's hard to say whether he's aiming for parody or something more acrid; the latter prevails.

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n the theatrical film, American backpackers are lured to a Bratislava hostelry serving an organization of wealthy sickos who pay to mutilate selected guests in an abandoned warehouse. Here Alex Chandler and Danny Roddick, boyfriends on and off screen, check into a similarly hospitable venue in Budapest. They're made to share a room with Euro-hotties Lucio Maverick and Matt Stefan -- cuing an immediate four-way. Later, at the hotel discotheque, as male dancers stage a pole-intensive sex show, Roddick is drugged. Chandler gets dragged away to a leprous industrial ruin where he's trussed up naked facing a video camera, gang raped by three roughies, then killed. When Roddick comes looking for his friend, he's forced to enact the same scene with the same three thugs. The chief differences are that he's forced to lick the boots of Akos Piros (who's like Jean Genet on downers) and that he escapes.

The clunky finale inspires regret that Roddick isn't shot.