Movie Review for Hostel Part II

Summary: Three young Americans studying in Rome set off for a weekend trip when they run into a beautiful model from one of their art classes. Also on her way to an exotic destination, the gorgeous European invites the coeds to come along, assuring them they will be able to relax and rejuvenate. Will the girls find the oasis they are looking for? Or are they poised to become victims for hire, pawns in the fantasies of the sick and privileged from around the world who secretly travel here to savor more grisly pursuits?

                         Reviews of Hostel Part II
By Kevin Carr of 7M Pictures (8/0)
            It's sick. It's twisted. Some scenes made me want to throw up. But I loved it. God help me.

By Brian Webster of Apollo Guide (8/0)
            There isn't a single lesson I am taking away other than the obviousness of Eli Roth's desire to s...

By Christy Lemire of Associated Press (8/0)
            Roth is good at what he does. Trouble is, he keeps making the same kind of movie over and over, a...

By Marc Savlov of Austin Chronicle (8/0)
            Social commentary, gore galore, and a truly disturbing denouement: This is Roth's best nightmare ...

By Wesley Morris of Boston Globe (8/0)
            ...pure torture.

By Ali Catterall of Channel 4 Film (7/0)
            Not worth the repeat check-in.

                         Reviews of Hostel Part II
By Michael Phillips of Chicago Tribune (8/0)
            You live in a free country, you put up with crud like Hostel Part II.

By Devin Faraci of CHUD (7/1)
            I was scared, I was creeped out and I was grossed out... Hostel Part II is damn unsettling.

By Cole Smithey of ColeSmithey.com (8/0)
            Similarly gory and exploitative as its torture-porn predecessor, writer/director Eli Roth's horro...

By Edward Douglas of ComingSoon.net (8/0)
            Those looking for wanton gore and violence may be sated, but those expecting more from this talen...

By Bill Gibron of DVD Verdict (8/0)
            When it comes down to it, Hostel Part II is the near perfect sequel, a money mandated continuatio...

By Alex Markerson of E! Online (8/0)
            The real surprise of Hostel: Part II is how few surprises it has to offer -- that, and how quickl...

                         Reviews of Hostel Part II
By Michelle Alexandria of Eclipse Magazine (7/1)
            Generally speaking, I hate horror films. What surprised me most about this is that it's more than...

By Emanuel Levy of EmanuelLevy.Com (8/0)
            Unlike Tarantino, Roth is not embarrassed or apologetic about being a genre director, a craftsman...

By Nicolas Lacroix of EnPrimeur.ca (8/0)
            L'Auberge 2 est si mauvais que je me suis mis à douter des quelques qualités que j'avais bien pu ...

By Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly (8/0)
            ...an authentic real-world creep show -- better, if anything, than its predecessor.

By Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com (8/0)
            It is little more than a retread of the previous film, which makes it lazy on top of everything e...

By Maitland McDonagh of Film Journal International (8/0)
            Inevitably lacks the element of vicious surprise that helped make Hostel a surprise hit, but it's...

                         Reviews of Hostel Part II
By Zack Haddad of Film Threat (8/0)
            The general storyline is now repetitive, making the journey of the film lackluster and not worth ...

By Chris Cabin of filmcritic.com (8/0)
            Sets the horror genre back a solid decade.

By Brent Simon of FilmStew.com (8/0)
            The horrorific scenes are not merely about splatter and gore; they carry a grim emotional weight ...

By Bill Clark of FromTheBalcony (8/0)
            ...an improvement over its predecessor in that Roth keeps the tone more consistent and gives us m...

By Peter Canavese of Groucho Reviews (8/0)
            Cultural poison...[or] a helluva lot of fun[?]...When it comes to a gore movie, there are two way...

By Phelim O'Neill of Guardian [UK] (7/0)
            Everything, save the bloody third act, is handled in a rudimentary fashion.

                         Reviews of Hostel Part II
By Michael Rechtshaffen of Hollywood Reporter (8/0)
            Eli Roth kicks things up a jagged notch with this bloody satisfying sequel.

By Staci Layne Wilson of Horror.com (8/0)
            Hostel: Part II has the Grand Guignol aspects we've come to expect (and love) from an Eli Roth fi...

By Spence D. of IGN Movies (8/0)
            Eli Roth has actually improved upon the first Hostel film, delivering a higher quotient of gore, ...

By Beth Accomando of KPBS.org (8/0)
            Roth is not you're run of the mill schlock horror director. He's smart, and his films are clever ...

By Anton Bitel of Little White Lies (7/0)
            like the film's pair of conflicted snuff customers, you're only getting what you paid your money ...

By Bob Strauss of Los Angeles Daily News (8/0)
            Roth theoretically ups the prurient ante by making the ugly American tourists in a Slovakian deat...

                         Reviews of Hostel Part II
By Mark Dujsik of Mark Reviews Movies (8/0)
            Hostel was garbage. Hostel: Part II is that same garbage moved over about a foot on the ground.

By Pete Hammond of Maxim (8/0)
            If this sounds like your cup of crud - and you know who you are - you probably won't be disappoin...

By Ken Hanke of Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (8/0)
            Unintentional laughs aside, this is simply another distasteful, unpleasant exercise in sadism bei...

By David Poland of Movie City News (8/0)
            The most disgusting, degrading, misogynistic, soulless s*** I have ever seen in a movie that is g...

By Mark Ramsey of MovieJuice! (8/0)
            And there's Bijou Phillips, reputed to be one of the craziest beeyatches in a town that grows the...

By Kurt Loder of MTV (8/0)
            Like every other sequel these days, the conclusion of this one offers the hopefully tantalizing p...

                         Reviews of Hostel Part II
By Elizabeth Weitzman of New York Daily News (8/0)
            Smarter and tougher than its predecessor.

By Kyle Smith of New York Post (8/0)
            All it has to say is: Here's human purée served fresh and hot, come and get it.

By Eric Kohn of New York Press (7/0)
            Sadly, the director’s proven creative finesse has given way to boring self-imitation. Hostel: Par...

By Laura Kern of New York Times (8/0)
             (Director Eli Roth) might have mastered the cheap sadism-as-entertainment gross-out, but he has ...

By Gene Seymour of Newsday (8/0)
            Hostel II is far too shrewd and savagely witty to be caught engaging in higher seriousness.

By Brian Orndorf of OhmyNews.com (7/1)
            Part II is vile, but it commits an even worse sin by being so aggressively boring and hilariously...

                         Reviews of Hostel Part II
By Frank Swietek of One Guy's Opinion (8/0)
            Another slab of Sadism-Is-Us cinema from writer-director Eli Roth...It's check-out time for this ...

By Scott Tobias of Onion AV Club (8/0)
            There's a keen intelligence behind all that gleeful degradation and it pays off in a finish that'...

By Aaron Hillis of Premiere Magazine (8/0)
            Hostel: Part II fails in what amounts to its only distinct purpose: to smugly push the envelope o...

By Rob Humanick of Projection Booth (7/0)
            One may as well watch a marathon of American beheadings at the hands of Iraqi insurgents with pop...

By Linda Cook of Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (8/0)
            This isn't exactly a movie review.But "Hostel: Part II" isn't exactly a movie. It is pornography ...

By Jim Hemphill of Reel.com (7/1)
            Hostel: Part II has something that most bigger-budgeted and more heavily promoted sequels don't: ...

                         Reviews of Hostel Part II
By James Berardinelli of ReelViews (8/0)
            The movie is soulless, but that's nothing new for a modern horror film.

By Jim Lane of Sacramento News & Review (8/0)
            ...assumes a certain level of sadistic bloodthirst in the viewer...

By Peter Hartlaub of San Francisco Chronicle (8/0)
            ...basically torture porn...

By Nick Schager of Slant Magazine (8/0)
            Outrage and disgust are sure to greet its theatrical arrival, but as its guiding conviction is th...

By Dustin Putman of TheMovieBoy.com (8/0)
            Whereas the first film began as a college kid's wet dream and ended as a nightmare, Hostel: Part ...

By David Fear of Time Out New York (7/0)
            Both nubile females and alpha-male douche bags are on the receiving end of pain (that’s supposed ...

                         Reviews of Hostel Part II
By James Christopher of Times [UK] (7/0)
            It pains me to admit that Hostel: Part II is a slicker package than the craven original. That doe...

By Ken Fox of TV Guide's Movie Guide (8/0)
            Roth manages to bring something new to the formula by taking a closer look at how the operation w...

By Urban Cinefile Critics of Urban Cinefile (8/0)
            Regurgitating the same idea but swapping characters %u2013 and this time the victims are three yo...

By Scott Bowles of USA Today (8/0)
            If this movie is any indication, Roth's career goal is to make a snuff film.

By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press (4/5) Login Required (Login Required)
            It's beautifully put-together and it builds to a satisfying climax in which Roth implies that if ...

By Bill Stamets of Chicago Sun-Times (7/1) No reference
            Roth ratchets up the retch factor.

                         Reviews of Hostel Part II
By Scott Weinberg of FEARnet (7/1) No reference
            A tight-fisted slow burn that whacks you in face with two or three really horrifying sequences.

By Lisa Rose of Newark Star-Ledger (5/3) No reference
            It's something of an accomplishment to stage deaths so disgusting, the main reaction is nervous l...

By Dan Gross of Philadelphia Daily News (7/1) No reference
            Fans of horror, and more importantly those who believe in the inherent evil of humans, will feel ...

By James Kendrick of Q Network Film Desk (7/1) No reference
            There is just too much that is repetitive in Hostel Part II to make it worth the effort.

By D.K. Holm of Quick Stop Entertainment (7/1) No reference
            Once you get past the finger gnawing suspense, you have to sit back and be impressed with Roth's ...

By Brian Tallerico of UnderGround Online (7/1) No reference
            Some might call it a mess, but, unlike the average horror sequel that's completely devoid of new ...

                         Reviews of Hostel Part II
By Prairie Miller of WBAI Web Radio (7/1) No reference
            Roth's satire of fright junkie male castration fears and feminist castration fantasies, mandates ...

By Harvey S. Karten of Compuserve (7/1) Not Reachable
            Artfully done, allowing us to be so caught up in the build-up that we can wait patiently for the ...

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