"This movie takes the time to develop the characters and the story and occasionally takes a break from being cruel and depraved to just have fun with itself."

Instead of focusing almost exclusively on gratuitous sex and gore...
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"This movie takes the time to develop the characters and the story and occasionally takes a break from being cruel and depraved to just have fun with itself."

Instead of focusing almost exclusively on gratuitous sex and gore like the first film, this movie takes the time to develop the characters and the story and occasionally takes a break from being cruel and depraved to just have fun with itself.

'Hostel' was not a great film by any means. It had lots of great, realistic, graphic, and disturbing violence and gore, an very original plot and built up a really creepy atmosphere that was, in a way, genuinely terrifying - but it was also an intensely flawed movie. It was morally offensive in parts, the characters weren't that likable, the plot, while very original, had holes, had parts that weren't developed properly and all in all just really wasn't that realistic at all.

'Hostel Part 2', is also not a great film, and a much less gory one at that, but it is still a good film and much better than the first. They realized what did and what didn't work in the first film, and sticked solely to what did work and even built on that. I found the first film mostly just a standard horror film whose only purpose was to scare and shock, but 'Hostel Part 2', whose purpose is still primarily to do just that, focused a whole lot more on the characters, developed the plot so much better, and just in general, showed a greater respect for the plot and the audience.

Both films aren't great, but they are worth watching; they feature the most graphic violence ever seen in such a mainstream horror film - but if you were going to buy one or the other,and wanted just a little bit more than a standard gore-fest, I recommend buying this film. If it's cheap, that is.

******SPOILER ALERT!!!!******

To those who’ve seen Hostel 2, picture the movie with a heterosexual heroine and a suave, smooth-talking Slovakian “recruiter.� Would it have made a difference? No. Not only did it...
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******SPOILER ALERT!!!!******

To those who’ve seen Hostel 2, picture the movie with a heterosexual heroine and a suave, smooth-talking Slovakian “recruiter.� Would it have made a difference? No. Not only did it not make sense, it was completely worthless. I would’ve understood it had Roth included a sprinkling of girl-on-girl kissing/sex scene (after the explosive popularity of soft-core lesbian porn drama The L Word, how could the marketing strategists have missed THAT???)…but nada. I wouldn’t even get into the East European stereotype faux pas…but all that lesbian “hinting�…What the hell was the POINT? Shall we look into the Freudian phobia men secretly harbor for the general lesbian population? That all gay gals have penis envy? Note to Eli Roth: Not all lesbians secretly want to cut off your dick!

For the record, though, I am completely fine with the gratuitous violence and nudity. Duh, a steak for a poster? Obviously not for Babe fans. Eli Roth does splatter movies justice, sure. The puzzle was the attempt at “female empowerment� in the hands of a pretty, young heiress aka latent lesbian castrating sociopath. Completely unnecessary and a bit…puzzling. Would it be too unacceptable that a STRAIGHT girl does the heinous amputation? What am I missing here?

It is nice to see that rather than just simply upping the body count for a horror sequel, Eli Roth actually decided to explore the lives of the villains more.

Unfortunately, he focused on their lives too much, and things got...
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It is nice to see that rather than just simply upping the body count for a horror sequel, Eli Roth actually decided to explore the lives of the villains more.

Unfortunately, he focused on their lives too much, and things got boring....suprisingly quickly. It was the best part of 50 minutes before any real tension started to build in the film, and when you're dealing with a rather thin plot line, that's a hell of a long time.

The other thing is....do you really want to know more about the lives of people who consider it "manly" to kill innocent people?.....I know I don't.

And also, once again, it really isn't as gory and sick as it thinks it is....the gore sequences in "Saw 3" are a heckload harder to watch. That scene with the woman who wanted to bathe in the blood of her victim was just bizarre.

So overall, more intelligent and more original than other horror movies of the last few years, but it's just too slow to hold the audience's attention.

So you enjoyed Hostel. You've admitted to having a sick and twisted mind, and you're craving for more.


Hostel II is like a godsend. The first part thrived on deranged minds like us. It flourished because of all the people that...
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So you enjoyed Hostel. You've admitted to having a sick and twisted mind, and you're craving for more.


Hostel II is like a godsend. The first part thrived on deranged minds like us. It flourished because of all the people that wanted to see gore and nothing more. Any bright mind would directly know that a second part would be just as, or even more succesful if there was more of the good present. Meaning more violence, and everything God prohibited.


Instead we get more nudity. And not even good nudity. If I'd wanted nudity I'd go watch porn, not a horror movie. That said, it took ages for the main characters to be kidnapped. Woah, here comes the good part, is what I thought.

But no, all you see (or better yet, all you're not seeing) is censored violence. People stepping right in front of the carnage, leaving you only the occasional 'result', but most of the time you have to let your imagination fill in the blanks. That's what I do in my pasttime, it's not why I watch a movie.


Awful. Wouldn't even rent this if I were you.