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Eli RothScreenplay:
Eli RothCinematography:
Milan ChadimaComposer:
Nathan BarrCast:
Lauren German, Bijou Phillips, Roger Bart, Richard Burgi, Heather Matarazzo, Stanislav Ianevski, Milan Kňažko, Zuzana Geislerová, Jay Hernandez, Jordan Ladd (more)VOD (1)
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Quentin Tarantino and Eli Roth welcome you back to your worst nightmare with this shocking and gruesome sequel to their original hit film Hostel. The second instalment in this terrifying series centres around three young American women who are studying in Rome. But when a gorgeous sophisticated European acquaintance invites the trio to join her for a weekend getaway at an exotic natural spa they are led to the ill-fated Hostel where they are poised to become the next victims in the diabolical murder-for-profit business. (Sony Pictures Releasing)
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A bit worse than the first Hostel, but with some very good scenes. Overall, it’s a slightly above-par film that shouldn’t disappoint fans of the exploitation subgenre. The ending is quite impressive.
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The higher budget paradoxically did the sequel harm, because the better quality of the technical aspect makes Eli Roth’s lack of skills as both screenwriter and director all the more glaring. His attempts at psychologizing on the subject of crime and guilt do not deserve any comment. It makes one recall the first instalment with nostalgia – horrible it might be, but it is also entertainingly cheap and silly.
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Again, absolutely idiotic, but still better than the first installment. During the scene of the dramatic march towards the beginning of the torture, with Slovak folk music in the background, I had an uncontrollable fit of laughter, just like when I realized that I knew both torturers from Desperate Housewives, and seeing them in such supporting roles, which they both enjoyed to an almost perverse degree, was truly an experience. However, I can't go higher than an unserious one-star rating. The whole concept of Slovakia and the extremely stupidly graded story is disgraceful.
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