Hostel Part 2 (DVD)

...used to. It seemed, that Hostel had tapped into a new market. A market where people want to be shocked. They want to be scared. They want to be taken as far as they can go, and then dragged a little further. Essentially, Hostel was an exploitation film. Sado-erotica at its best. You could watch it, and drink your fill of blood, gore, sex and adrenaline pumping thrills. So, it was natural to me to want to see the sequel. It seemed to come out a bit ...
...have taken more time creating hostel part two, or else not have bothered with a sequel at all. The plot, which is thinner than Homer Simpsons' hair, is basically the exact same one from the first film. The events of the film, are 'similar, but not as scary. The acting is perhaps slightly worse, and all he has done to try and make this a film in its own right, is give it an all female lead cast, and provided a Taratinoesque twist, at the end. This ...

giksy21 21.07.2009 · Read full review
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...just become depressing and uncomfortable. Hostel 2 falls neatly into the latter category. I could write a detailed plot synopsis like I usually do in my reviews, but what it boils down to is this - three young American women travel to Prague, get abducted and tortured to death in a variety of gory ways by people who have paid for the pleasure. That's it, really. There are no subtle plot twists, no symbolism, no allegory, nothing. It's just people ...
...loving detail. You can almost imagine director Eli Roth jerking off during the literal blood bath scene. I'm not really a fan of this brand of horror (I have similar feelings towards the later Saw movies) so I suppose this one was never going to get high marks from me. It's not because I'm particularly squemish (I think gore and nudity have a place in any good horror film) but honestly, I just don't find anything entertaining about this movie. It's ...

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...last one. We'll be on Hostel Part 150 if this is how much it improves until we get a decent film out of this series. This time it's the girls turn. Three students, Beth (Lauren German), Whitney (Bijou Phillips) & Lorna (Heather Matarazzo) are convinced by a model they were sketching to check into a Hostel in Slovakia. They take this advice & decide to check into. At the desk the girls passports are taken so the clerk can upload their passport photos ...
...this film & the previous Hostel film just don't match up to his previous glory. My boyfriend bought this from Tesco for £9.99 which like the other one at £4.99 is still way too expensive for a film of this quality. The special features include; Commentary Behind the scenes featurette Special effects featurette Set design featurette Blood & guts blooper reel Deleted scenes Basically all the same extras you get with the first film… great! ...

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Review of Hostel Part 2 (DVD)

...is the follow up to Hostel and it is very similar to the first. We start out by watching a group of girls who are traveling around. They decide that their next stop will be Prague until a stunning, modelesque woman encourages them to go to Slovakia. When they get there, the woman leads them to a hostel where they hand in their passports, pick up their keys and start enjoying their holiday. Unbeknownst to them, people all over the world start bidding ...
...of a building where normal people come to kill. Like I have already said this is very similar to the first and I did think that it dragged a little in places and was fairly predictable. It wasn't until the girls get down in the dungeons that the film 'hots' up and there are some very exciting twists and turns that makes the film an individual. Much like the first film there is a lot of blood and gore which I know will scare some people off. There ...

claribella 02.08.2009 · Read full review
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...been scanned behind the Slovakian hostel counter. Scenes like these are thought provoking and welcomed in any film. We also see new creative ways in which the organisation uses to kidnap women, though these seem uneccessarily elabourate in some cases, which diminish the sense of realism for a while. As is the trend with sequels, we are treated to ever darker gore scenes. They seem fewer, but this doesn't diminish from the terror, and it's not just ...
...of their victims. I am not one who shocks easily, and feel the gore aspect was well done to serve the plot, and not too gratuitous. CHARACTERS: As in the first film, the acting talent is high. They are solid people who you can empathise with. Of course the women are mostly beautiful teenager semi-stereotypes, but a gorgeous girl being a victim always works better - I don't make the rules, this is human nature. The central character is a believably ...

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...get captured in the torture hostel and one of them is tortured by a circular saw that rips the whole of her skin off her face which is most sickening and worst yet she is somehow still alive? The other girl escapes from being tortured and decides to torture the torturee by pulling his penis off with a huge rope and feeding it to the dogs, I mean what in the world is that? Who would want to see that? One other scene that is just bizzare is at the ...
...the women who is responsible for the torture of her friends and then a gang of kids start playing football with the head to some festival dancing music and then the film ends. I bet your thinking what? because that is what I was thinking the film just makes no sense, has some horrible and bizzare scenes and wastes an hour an 15 minutes of your life. Definitley not a buy and not one to watch. ...

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