Hostel Part II Review

College students Beth (Lauren German), Whitney (Bijou Phillips) and Lorna (Heather Matarazzo) are takingin the sughts of Europe on an art trip.
In Rome beautiful life model Axelle (Vera Jordanova) persuades the trio to delay their trip to Prague andvisit the health spas in Slovakia.
On arrival the girls discover that they have been auctioned off to the highest bidder as victims whowill be tortured and killed.
It was inevitable after the success of the first movie that director Eli Roth would be enticed backto provide a sequel.
It picks up where the first left off and Paxton, the only survivor from Hostel, is having nightmaresabout his experiences but meets a grisly end within the first five minutes.
The movie then turns to the trio of college students and from there it's a carbon copy of the origional film:girls get manipulated by beautiful woman, girls get captured one by one, they get killed one by one, themain character makes dramatic escape.
The most interesting part of the film is the relationship between Stuart (Roger Bart) and Todd (RichardBurgi), two American business men, who have the highest bids on Whitney and Beth. While Todd is up for murderStuart is more apprehensive.
Unfortunately however the role reversal that occurs between the two characters is not very subtle andcan be spotted a mile off.
Then of course there's the inevitable guts and gore as Roth aims to shock and repulse the audience.But after the string of horror movies and horror remakes today's audience are becoming immune and slightlybored with this shock tactic that is used so often by horror directors.
But Roth does take it one step further, in the origional men killed men however this time around womenare getting in on the act.
And while the blood and guts no longer shocks there is something profoundly disturbing about watchinga women kill another woman.
This picture is an unispiring ninety four minutes that lacks any sort of originality going everywherethe first movie went. And by producing a carbon copy of the origional Roth is failing to live up tohis title of Future of Horror Movies and Quentin Tarantino's protege.

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Helen Earnshaw