Meh.
If anyone has seen Cruel intentions and
it's sequel (which is actually it's prequel), you'll be seeing quite
a few similarities here. Hostel 2 is basically the same as it's
predecessor in a different place and with different characters.
Three college girls (Ugh. College kids
again) are on a trip to prague when they hear about the beautiful
relaxing spas of Slovakia. They decide to go and end up on the wrong
end of the Elite Hunting Club. Not much can be said about this film
that I haven't already said about its prequel, except that it isn't
executed as well.
What is new however, is that we get to
see the other side of the shady goings-on. Hostel 2 shows us how the
'doctors' are called in. Stuart and Todd are two brothers who bid on
the girls and win Beth and Whitney, respectively. As first time
clients, they are branded with the bloodhound tattoo as part of the
contract and called in when the girls arrive. Todd sticks a circular
saw in Whitney's head, but that doesn't quite kill her. He realises
what he has done and decides he's 'out'. Unfortunately for him, the
the part of the contract he didn't read is 'kill or be killed'.
Stuart on the other hand, tried to to rape Beth before he does the
deed, but she breaks loose and ties him up, threatening to cut off
his 'old mister' unless the EHC let her go. She tries to buy her way
out, but the club's boss lady tells her about the clause Todd
breached. So Beth snips Stuart's kerjigger and feeds it to the dogs,
letting him bleed to death. This initiates Beth as a member of the
EHC, granting her a tattoo and she is set free. The bubblegum boys
are back too, although with a smaller role, and are shown to be quite
accustomed to death. In the first movie, we see then cave in a man's
skull with a rock. In this instalment, they do not even flinch when
one of their own is shot and seem far to happy playing football with
a freshly severed head.
Another torture-porn flick with less
torture then the first, and probably less porn too. I guess if you're
on a horror marathon it would make sense to watch this straight after
the first, especially as the fate of Paxton from Hostel 1 is revealed
in the opening scene, but other than that, once again, meh.
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