Average Rating: 5.1/10
Reviews Counted: 107
Fresh: 47 | Rotten: 60
Offering up more of the familiar sadism and gore, Hostel: Part II will surely thrill horror fans.
Average Rating: 4.6/10
Critic Reviews: 21
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 12
Offering up more of the familiar sadism and gore, Hostel: Part II will surely thrill horror fans.
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Three American students studying art in Rome are drawn into a grim world of torture and suffering in director Eli Roth's blackly comic sequel to the horror hit that shocked the world. Beth (Lauren German), Whitney (Bijou Phillips), and Lorna (Heather Matarazzo) have ventured outside of their stateside surroundings in order to get a more worldly appreciation of the arts. But sketching nudes all day can take its toll on even the most talented artist, and when class is over the three girls jump at
Jun 8, 2007 Wide
Oct 23, 2007
$17.5M
Lionsgate
All Critics (110) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (51) | Rotten (64) | DVD (18)
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.
Eli Roth's Hostel: Part II is an authentic real-world creep show -- better, if anything, than its predecessor.
The movie is almost totally devoid of suspense, which is one of the marks of a true exploitation film. Why waste time with a bunch of false scares and tension, when you can go straight to the pain and suffering?
Hostel: Part II offers more hard-core horror and an even more outspoken message [than the first].
Ends up there is a moral to the story, one sure to delight the bamboozled pseudo-intellectuals who laughably defended Hostel as a geo-political critique of American arrogance and the culture of torture.
No doubt about it: Roth is a talented guy. But it would be nice to see him use his skills in the service of something other than more sadistic, pandering, pornographic violence.
Gory torture bloodbath checks in for another stay.
Poseur callousness all the way
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.
Not exactly a feast for the eyes, unless you're into literal blood baths and raw flesh tartare sliced testicles. In other words, a serving of fright junkie self-fulfillment, garnished with male castration fears and feminist castration fantasies.
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.
Just a sub-par and obscenely overrated piece of lazy horror filmmaking...
Extra gore and a whole lot more. The fans will not be disappointed.
a completely unnecessary, but still intriguing sequel
Sadly, the horror genre gets no respect, and Hostel: Part II is not the type of film to change that.
Sequel to Hostel, Hostel 2 is pretty much the same film as the first one except that it's less uninspired, instead of being Guys back packing in Europe, it's Women who are the victims. The only decent scene that had genuine terror is when the rich business men, place bids on their potential victims, I thought that was
June 9, 2010
Super Reviewer
I don't particularly feel like writing much about Hostel II, but I enjoyed it, and found it far less objectionable than the media and other horror fans make it out to be. We watched it in a "history of the slasher" class I took and, as part of an assignment, here's a question I asked in relation to the film. Food for
April 10, 2007Super Reviewer
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