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Reviews Counted:103
Fresh:45
Rotten:58
Average Rating:5/10
Consensus: Offering up more of the familiar sadism and gore, Hostel: Part II will surely thrill horror fans.
Theatrical Release:29-06-2007
Synopsis: With only one film under his belt and the endorsement of Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth became a virtual horror brand with HOSTEL (2005), a yarn about a group of thrill-seeking American college dudes... [More]
Starring: Jay Hernandez, Bijou Phillips, Roger Bart, Lauren German
Director: Eli Roth
Any blood here is pumping straight to the brain. Hostel: Part II is astute and subversive, its wily sexual politics paving the way for a killer climax. Significantly raising his game, Eli Roth has crafted a sequel to die for.
Hostel: Part II does succumb to mere ghoulishness in the last-reel bloodbath, but up to that point its moral tension feels horribly persuasive.
All the realism of an abbatoir.
Top CriticBy spending so much time thinking up ever more innovative ways of killing people, he loses the bigger picture resulting in a much poorer film.
Not worth the repeat check-in.
Top Criticlike the film's pair of conflicted snuff customers, you're only getting what you paid your money for.
It is pretty boring. But then the gore is even worse to watch.
It pains me to admit that Hostel: Part II is a slicker package than the craven original. That doesn’t excuse the fact that it’s torture pornography for morons.
Top CriticCue the blood-gushing finale, which has a few surprises up its sleeve. I wasn’t a fan of the original and, despite Hostel: Part II’s slicker look, I’m still not.
Oh, do grow up.
This is a well-made sequel but the violence is extremely sickening and it's not nearly as much fun as the first film.
Unlike the original’s many imitators, this follow-up at least tempers its atrocities with satirical humour.
Everything, save the bloody third act, is handled in a rudimentary fashion.
Top CriticPicking up where the first film ended, writer-director Roth adds two angles to his formula, but neither is enough to make this grisly film worth watching.
Roth’s slick shock-’em-up sequel is a dispiritingly traditional splat of gristly Grand Guignol. It’s tooled up to outrage, but ultimately numbs rather than grips.
Top CriticHostel 2 is feebleness itself, poorly constructed and deeply unterrifying, a let-down after the giddy shockfest of the first film last year.
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Roth is not you're run of the mill schlock horror director. He's smart, and his films are clever works of nastiness.
...an improvement over its predecessor in that Roth keeps the tone more consistent and gives us more likable heroines, but we're all still waiting for Roth to bust out a truly genre-defining film.
When it comes down to it, Hostel Part II is the near perfect sequel, a money mandated continuation that actually works as a companion piece to the original effort
June 30, 2008:
A Writer/Director for Hostel III? 
It looks like Scott Spiegel will be taking over for Eli Roth where Hostel III is concerned -- and it also looks like the sequel will be heading straight to video. More...
June 24, 2008:
Eli Roth Won't Write, Direct Hostel III
Looks like a third Hostel movie is officially on the way -- and it'll arrive without Eli Roth writing or directing. More...
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December 19, 2007:
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