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Hostel: Part II (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 101
Fresh: 45
Rotten:56
Average Rating: 5/10
Consensus: Offering up more of the familiar sadism and gore, Hostel: Part II will surely thrill horror fans.
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for sadistic scenes of torture and bloody violence, terror, nudity, sexual content, language and some drug content.
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Theatrical Release:Jun 8, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $17,544,812
Synopsis: With only one film under his belt and the endorsement of Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth became a virtual horror brand with HOSTEL (2005), a yarn about a group of thrill-seeking American college dudes... With only one film under his belt and the endorsement of Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth became a virtual horror brand with HOSTEL (2005), a yarn about a group of thrill-seeking American college dudes backpacking through Europe, only to be seduced into a Slovakian money-for-torture ring where they become the prey. The sequel begins right where that film left off, filling us in on the whereabouts of lone survivor Paxton (Jay Hernandez)---but before long, we see that gender roles are reversed and we are traveling with sensible Beth (Lauren German), hedonistic Whitney (Bijou Phillips), and virginal Lorna (Heather Matarazzo). After tussling with a gaggle of shifty men on a train, they meet Axelle (Vera Jordanova), a gorgeous woman who persuades them to follow her to a rejuvenating spa in Slovakia. As the trio checks into the same infamous hostel, Roth shows us the inner workings of the previously mysterious torture club. Once the girls are put up on the auction block, online bidding begins among the club's members--who are revealed to be prominent international businesspeople. After Beth and Whitney are won by type-A American corporate jerk Todd (Richard Burgi), who believes that killing someone will give him power, and his reluctant associate, Stuart (Roger Bart), the film shifts to the preparations for their inaugural slayings within the bloody walls of the warehouse. For those who embraced HOSTEL's abrupt tonal shifts and very realistic gore, Roth serves up amplified doses of both in his follow-up. Astute horror fans will find a few amusing in-jokes among the carnage, but beware---things get incredibly strong, and Roth's charnelhouse chic intends to offend. In fact, HOSTEL II may stand as the most glaring example of the MPAA's bias in favor of violence over sexuality when it comes the boundary between R and NC-17. [More]
Starring: Jay Hernandez, Bijou Phillips, Roger Bart, Lauren German
Starring: Jay Hernandez, Bijou Phillips, Roger Bart, Lauren German, Heather Matarazzo, Milan Knazko, Richard Burgi
Director: Eli Roth
Director: Eli Roth
Screenwriter: Eli Roth
Producer: Mike Fleiss, Eli Roth, Chris Briggs
Composer: Nathan Barr
Studio: Lions Gate Films
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Reviews for Hostel: Part II
This second film definitely shows Roth's absolute courage as a director. He didn't pull any punches with this follow up.
The lasting effect of all three of Eli Roth's films is a certain kind of Grand Guignol "Punk'D", in which the "mark" is not only embarrassed, he's also cut to pieces.
Roth não é apenas um sujeito doente e repulsivo, mas também um picareta sem talento que usa seus filmes para torturar o espectador como num de seus "albergues".
In the end, one comes to the conclusion that Roth, like his mentor Quentin Tarantino, is someone who is very good at talking the talk but can’t quite bring himself to walk the walk and himself make the kind of film his own are parasitic upon.
Roth's satire of fright junkie male castration fears and feminist castration fantasies, mandates that you're going to have to have your cock and eat it too, whether consumed live during elegant dining to the sound of opera, or by killer canine pets.
Roth's dark humor and lacerating view of human weakness sometimes suggest George Romero; what he lacks is Romero's stubborn belief in personal morality.
Hostel, Part II is bad, but it's not the most objectionable torture porno by any conceivable yardstick.
Sadly, the director’s proven creative finesse has given way to boring self-imitation. Hostel: Part II gives us the same premise as the first film, changing genders and little else.
One may as well watch a marathon of American beheadings at the hands of Iraqi insurgents with popcorn in hand - the entertainment value is surprisingly comparable.
Picking up where the first film ended, writer-director Roth adds two angles to his formula, but neither is enough to make this grisly film worth watching.
...marks a substantial leap forward in terms of [Eli Roth's] directorial abilities.
Unlike the original’s many imitators, this follow-up at least tempers its atrocities with satirical humour.
Hostel: Part II does succumb to mere ghoulishness in the last-reel bloodbath, but up to that point its moral tension feels horribly persuasive.
Cue the blood-gushing finale, which has a few surprises up its sleeve. I wasn’t a fan of the original and, despite Hostel: Part II’s slicker look, I’m still not.
By spending so much time thinking up ever more innovative ways of killing people, he loses the bigger picture resulting in a much poorer film.
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