Hostel: Part II (Unrated Director's Cut)

If you look at today's movie previews, women empowerment is a significant theme. It's almost being forced down our throats. This film was made in 2006 before all the nonsense started. As a sequel to Hostel, the writers and directors naturally and appropriately showed the strength and power of women without all the politics. This film...like Hostel...is not for the faint of heart. Heather Matarazzo is amazingly beautiful in this movie. Her style and talent is top notch. The best of the Hostel films!

I must've seen the Hostel movies so many times, this one continues to be my favorite. I especially love the Beth character and the way she handles herself. The storyline is a perfect Gore and bloodiest, the acting convincing and well acted which is rare in horror thrillers these days. I've probably watched this series a thousand times and I'll probably watch it a thousand more, but I've Always Loved Extreme Horror Movies, Books, and the rest and the Hostel movies fit right in.

If you like horror of any kind, this is not for you. I'd like for Eli Roth to prove himself, but again he has failed majorly. Pathetic cliches, misogynistic plot lines, completely alienate half his audience. Gore doesn't make up for the lack of quality in his work. Boring, sexist, completely lame themes ruin anything he has to offer. I'd like to say he can do better but he hasn't proven anything but the mediocre work he's provided. Truly sad, subpar work he tries to pass as horror. I feel bad for him.

This movie was so shocking, and scary because this could actually be happening somewhere in the world I'm speechless all I can say is that this movie makes you think about the sick people out there and that the world is a dangerous place. The storyline is just brillant everything about this film demonstrates a true classic Horror Film!

This film will keep you from ever wanting to travel in Europe off the beaten path. Violence at each and every turn with a way to many dead-ends, ok when the native kids play a form of soccer with a persons decapitaTED head I did laugh! Not for watching at or close to dinner time. A Texas chainsaw meets in cold blood.

This movie leaves off where #1 left off,the Bloodhound orginization is looming for escaped survivor of the first film(played by Jay Hernandez) and they find him.Fast forward to 4 girls on vacation tbat get drugged and taken hostage. A guy & his brother are doing this for a wedding prrsent to his brother.More gore and intense sequences of torture,deep story goes deeper.Must watch for fans of part 1

It's so rare that I find a sequel to a great movie that even comes close to matching the original! Luckily, writer/director Eli Roth did a great job at accomplishing this rare feat! Roth adeptly avoided the pitfalls and traps that so many in his field fall into...such as trying too hard to outdo his earlier work with obvious ploys like Hollywood glitz, sparkle and fluff in the form of over-done special effects that are focused on more than paying attention to putting out a good flick. Yes, there is a little more torture in this second movie...not much, but a little. and frankly, BOTH movies would have benefitted from more torture! I do prefer to watch this second movie more than the first. Even though the original had more female nudity in it (always a good thing), I seem to like the second story better...although I'll admit it's purely a matter of personal opinion. I'll also admit that if someone were to say they like the first movie better, I would not be able to argue the point. I think I like the second movie better because I just prefer the victims to be female. and since the second movie focuses on how FEMALE victims came into this mess, the plot is more enjoyable for me. (although as I said, the first flick is better at having more female nudity...always a plus!) The point is, Roth did a great job with the second flick because he did not try to outdo the first flick! he just stuck to his guns and wrote and directed a second movie that had merit on its own, without depending on, leaning on or needing to outshine the original. the plot is impressive enough for this perverse genre...the script works well...the acting is more than adequate. the special effects are impressive and daunting...but he did not got bogged down in trying to "be better" than his first effort. so to sum up, the second flick could have had more violence and torture and more female nudity...it does have a bit more torture than the first...and I think it's a more enjoyable watch than the first Hostel. Thank you, Eli for having that rare sequel...a sequel that stands up to the original great flick! and kudos to Quentin Tarantino for having the smarts to hitch his wagon to both of these wonderfully gruesome and grizzly, repulsive movies! Good, sick job on everyone's part! I loved it!

This 2007 horror slasher seemingly starts where number one left off -but it's not necessary to see that first. Paxton [Jay Hernandez] awakes in a hospital bed and tells his tale then realises they are all part of the hunting club. Awakening from his nightmare he tells his girlfriend they are not safe. The action then switches to Rome, where 3 American girls strike up an acquaintance with a female model and are referred to a spa resort. Following a similar path to the first this leaves us with the thought of which one will get out alive: the nerd, the frivolous fun-lover or the level headed one.Although we know the plot [from the first movie] and the first disappearance is late in coming, the atmosphere of this film is more intense and sinister than the first. This also has the added twist of developing the character depth of the monied killers whilst illustrating that for the procurers it's simply business. This makes the participants more `real' and 3 dimensional, which means that although there is less gore here than no.1, when it comes we identify with the characters more readily which adds to the intensity.The disc opens to a anti piracy ad, then goes to main menu offering play, Audio [English or Italian], subtitles [English with or without commentary, on/off], scene selection, special features [commentaries, deleted scenes, gag reel etc] and trailers for 3 other movies.I have no problem giving this a **** but the violence is quite unsettling. Anyone want to play football?

Having enjoyed the gratuitous gore and flesh-fest that was Hostel I and having some time to myself for the next couple of weeks, what better way to spend it than by revisiting the Hostel series and going for Part II, I thought. I had read some of the reviews in the negative sense and thought that people were just being too squeamish, too judgmental and too sanctimonious. I suppose it was wrong of me, on this occasion, to think the opinions of the masses were irrelevant to me.So the two things that I wanted more of on this occasion, were the gore, which I thought was blissfully no-holds-barred in Hostel one, and the girl element, which was shamelessly enjoyable. In fact, so far-reaching was it in the first film that for the first 30 minutes I thought someone had slipped a porn disc into the box instead. But Hostel II has far less flesh on offer, less gore, less suspense, less... everything.The first 30 mins or so of the film chart the journey of a group of girls to a hostel lured there by another girl who's a life model, drawing victims out of her classes for carriage over to Slovakia. The girl travellers check into a hostel and you know how it goes from there: they get auctioned, sold off and then used to their clients' whims. There is then an interesting change from the first film in that Hostell II follows the activities of two buyers from remote sale to being in the same room as the girls. One buyer chickens out from dishing out the torture and the other goes for his life. However, from this point on I found it increasingly hard to care. In the first film people, the victims are just treated as lumps of meat [as are the girls who solicit them]: the whole film is about the carnal disposable nature of flesh. However, in Hostel II Roth tries to inject a bit of personality and emotion into it by trying to get us to feel sorry for one of the girls. In short, we don't. We want her offed just like the little victim she is, we don't want to see glassy-eyed close-ups of her snivelling face. I won't go into detail, but sufficed to say she ends up getting the better of the situation, not the other way round.Overall I felt the gore element was pulled punch in the film. The only exception to this is the scene where a female client bathes in the blood of a victim - Bathory-esque - after slitting her throat, but after this, things get a little tamer and my interest fleeted.If you are coming to watch a film like this you must be expecting all-out insensibility on every level, and Hostel II just doesn't deliver, all the elements that were there in Hostel I are still there but just much less so. Or maybe I'm becoming too desensitised these days. The only upside was that I only paid £2 for the DVD [which was a dud so I had to end up watching it online anyway].

I used to avidly watch Hostel, Saw, Wrong Turn, Hills Have Eyes, Frontieres etc but can't bear it now and not sure whether to give it one star or five, depends if close up torture detail is your thing. If it is, then buy, I can't bear to look so what's the point? Some of the plot makes little sense, though. If an angry woman who hates the c*** word had a knife around my meat and two veg, I know that's the one thing I wouldn't call her. Good special effects, so if you enjoy this sort of movie, read as a five star review. Bon Appetit!

The best of the three Hostel films, due to the best development of characters. Both the "clients" and the "victims" are better understood, and the plot therefore has more depth and believability. The way that the "brother" clients pan out is a nice idea in particular. It's not all that gory, only one scene is an exception to that really, but the film is still head and shoulders above the others in the series.

im not a huge gore horror fan,but hostel 1 and 11 stand head and shoulders above others of the genre,simply because of the great idea for the story,which is very believable..more believable than perhaps we care to imagine,what with recent revelations in the news,-as well as the eerie setting of eastern europe.And people who say this is really gory clearly havent seen the gorefest comedy of Braindead! I wont be getting hostel 3,btw!-Such a shame,as a definitive sequel to this would have been very interesting,if it had been done correctly.