Up until I heard Eli Roth was doing the the story by Stephen King, Cell, I could actually breathe a sigh of relief that he had come onto the scene. Cabin Fever was an exceptionally good fall back into the horror genre that many had been waiting to come around for a long time, along with, Saw and House of 1000 Corpses things were looking up for horror and I still have high hopes that there will be another plunge. Eli's next indulgence with the genre was with the Hostel filmss. First one was unique and different but, seemed way too much into the torture porn type stuff. The second installment I felt was more entertaining in a way to where I still can't come to the point why I enjoyed it better. It seems like the natural instinct would be I'd like the first one more since I could relate to the guys in the film more with the fucking of girls and their male like conversations about girls. Though the same surrounding around the secret organization that captures young euro-travelers and has people pay top dollar to murder them the characters in part two were more likable to me, well, at least the main character. I guess I have a thing for girls with black hair. When I saw it, it was in theater of course and it could have been with a better crowd. I sat next to some Latina girls that through the entire film when the gory parts would come onto the screen they would mistakenly grab my arm out of freight. And it's a plus they were getting scarred because, it's a nice feeling to see a horror movie and listen to other peoples terror.
If you haven't seen the end of the first one then don't read any further.
The beginning of the film continues after the ending of the first where the main protagonist Paxton (Jay Hernandez) thinks that he has escaped the organization completely but soon there after returning home in his seclusion is decapitated and left to be discovered by his girlfriend in his home. The initial story begins with three art college girls (Beth (Lauren German), Whitney (Bijou Phillips) and Lorna (Heather Matarazzo)) go on on a trip though Scandinavia with a newly meet friend Axelle (Vera Jordanova). The girls arrive at a small spa and the clerk checks them in and uploads their passports onto the organizations database to be bid on. The bids for the girls are jumped on by a hotshot American businessman Todd (Richard Burgi) bids on Whitney and Beth for himself and his passive best friend and brother Stuart (Roger Bart). Stuart is resentful towards the whole idea of killing someone but, Todd leads him on that it's a new experience in which they haven't done before and that he doesn't want to go through alone. Todd, eventually convinces Stuart to do it and they fly to Scandinavia to fulfill their contract.
As with all horror films it got mixed reviews with critical reception. All in all it's a blast to watch for old veterans for the horror genre because of the three B's. Blood, Babes, and Boobs. Which I think the first one had more of but, again this one had a little bit more development. And interesting thing is that as with the last one having a cameo of the infamous Takashi Miike as one of the clients to the murderous organization, this one features one by Ruggero Deodato the director of the most controversial film ever made, Cannibal Holocaust. Coincidentally, of course, he plays a client who enjoys eating the flesh of his victims in a fine dinner like matter while the poor bastards still alive. This recurring usage of brutal film directors in Eli Roth's Hostel's, if they are to make a third one, will be something I look forward to for years to come.
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