Two college students, Paxton Rodriguez and Josh Brooks, travel across
Europe with their
Icelandic friend Óli Eriksson. In the
Netherlands, they visit an
Amsterdam nightclub, followed by a
brothel. They are booted from the nightclub after getting in a fight with a clubgoer and unable to get back into their hostel because of a curfew, they accept the offer of a man named Alexei to stay at his apartment. He convinces them that, instead of going to
Barcelona, they should visit a
hostel near Bratislava,
Slovakia with beautiful women who fawn over Americans. The three board a train to Slovakia, where they encounter a
Dutch businessman, who makes an inappropriate advance on Josh. Josh flips out, causing the businessman to leave. Arriving in Slovakia, they find that their roommates in the hostel are two women, Natalya and Svetlana. The women invite them to a spa, and later to a disco. Briefly exiting the disco, Josh is accosted by a gang of local
Romani criminal children, but the Dutch businessman intervenes to defend him. Josh apologizes for his reaction on the train. Paxton and Josh have sex with Natalya and Svetlana, while Óli leaves with the desk girl, Vala. The next morning, Óli does not return. The two are approached by a Japanese woman named Kana, who shows them a photo of Óli and her friend Yuki, who is also missing. Elsewhere, Óli is shown having been decapitated while Yuki is being tortured. Josh is anxious to leave, but Paxton convinces him to stay one more night with Natalya and Svetlana. They go to a disco, where both women slip the men
mickies. Josh returns to the hostel and passes out on his bed, while Paxton stumbles into a pantry and is locked inside, where he passes out. Josh wakes up in a dungeon-like room, handcuffed and shackled to a chair bolted to the floor, surrounded by weapons and instruments of torture. The Dutch businessman enters and begins maiming him with a drill, making holes in Josh's body, then slicing his
achilles tendons, then slitting his throat, while revealing that he paid for this service. Paxton wakes up in the pantry in the disco when a worker opens the door and lets him out. He returns to the hostel, where he learns that he had supposedly checked out. He is greeted by two women who invite him to the spa. Determined to find his friend, Paxton files a police report, to no avail. Suspicious, he locates Natalya and Svetlana; Natalya takes Paxton to the Art Show, an old factory outside of town, where he sees Josh's mutilated corpse being stitched together by the Dutch businessman. Two men drag Paxton down a hallway, passing by several rooms where other people are being tortured. Paxton is restrained, gagged, and prepped to be tortured by a German client named Johann. While cutting off two of Paxton's fingers with a chainsaw, Johann unintentionally severs his hand restraints. Johann slips on the severed fingers and falls, accidentally severing his leg with the chainsaw. Paxton shoots Johann in the head with a gun. He then kills a guard, changes into business clothes, and finds a business card for the Elite Hunting Club, an organization that allows its wealthy clientele to pay to kill and mutilate tourists. Paxton also discovers Kana, whose face is being disfigured with a blowtorch by an American client. Paxton kills the man and rescues Kana and they flee in a stolen car, pursued by guards. Paxton discovers Natalya, Svetlana, and Alexei together and runs them over, killing the latter two, while the pursuing car finishes off Natalya. He also encounters the criminal
Romani children from earlier and gives them a big pack of candy and gum. They then attack and kill the men pursuing Paxton with concrete blocks. The two make it to the train station which is under surveillance from the Elite Hunting Club guards and cops on their payroll. Kana, seeing her disfigured face, kills herself by leaping in front of an oncoming train, which attracts attention and allows Paxton to board another train unnoticed. Aboard, Paxton hears the voice of the Dutch businessman. When the train stops in
Vienna,
Austria, Paxton follows the Dutch businessman into a public restroom and mutilates his fingers before slicing his throat. He then reboards the train and sits calmly.
Alternate ending In the director's cut of the film, Paxton follows the Dutch businessman being accompanied by his young daughter into a public restroom of a train station. After finding her teddy bear in the women's restroom, the Dutch businessman frantically searches the crowd for his missing daughter. Paxton is then seen aboard the moving train with the Dutch businessman's daughter, whom he has kidnapped. ==Cast==