Hostel: Part II (2007)
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Lauren German, Bijou Phillips, Roger Bart, Lauren German, Heather Matarazzo
Screenwriter: Eli Roth
Producer: Mike Fleiss, Eli Roth, Chris Briggs
Composer: Nathan Barr
DVD Info
Release:
Oct 23, 2007
Blu-ray Features:
- Anamorphic Widescreen
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French
- PCM 5.1
- Subtitles - English, French, Mandarin, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentary - Eli Roth - Director, Quentin Tarantino - Executive Producer; Gabriel Roth - Producer; Cast
- Deleted Scenes
- Clips/Highlights - Blood and Guts Gag Reel
- Featurettes - 1. HOSTEL PART II: THE NEXT LEVEL
- 2. THE ART OF KNB EFFECTS
- 3. PRODUCTION DESIGN
- 4. HOSTEL PART II: A LEGACY OF TORTURE - INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION SPECIAL
- Interviews - 1. "The Treatment" with Eli Roth
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Reviews
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.
It is pretty boring. But then the gore is even worse to watch.
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.
Any blood here is pumping straight to the brain. Hostel: Part II is astute and subversive, its wily sexual politics paving the way for a killer climax. Significantly raising his game, Eli Roth has crafted a sequel to die for.
Hostel 2 is feebleness itself, poorly constructed and deeply unterrifying, a let-down after the giddy shockfest of the first film last year.
Everything, save the bloody third act, is handled in a rudimentary fashion.
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