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Hostel: Part II
Lionsgate

Hostel: Part II reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 46 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
4.8 out of 10
based on 21 reviews
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MPAA RATING: R for sadistic scenes of torture and bloody violence, terror, nudity, sexual content, language and some drug content

Starring Lauren German, Roger Bart, Heather Matarazzo, Bijou Phillips, Richard Burgi, Vera Jordanova, Jay Hernandez, and Jordan Ladd

Three young Americans studying abroad in Rome set off for a weekend trip when they run into a beautiful model from their art class. Also on her way to an exotic destination, the gorgeous European invites the coeds to come along. 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? (Lionsgate)


GENRE(S): Horror  |  Suspense/Thriller  
WRITTEN BY: Eli Roth (also characters)  
DIRECTED BY: Eli Roth  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: October 23, 2007 
Theatrical: June 8, 2007 
RUNNING TIME: 93 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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78
Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Director Roth has accomplished the near impossible with Hostel: Part II: He's crafted a vastly superior sequel to a film already considered something of a classic by genre aficionados, one that supersedes its predecessor's sadistic entertainment quotient by orders of magnitude while also upstaging its own outrageous gore effects with a script that's smart, vicious, and occasionally, gleefully subversive.
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75
New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
While the sequel isn't as unrelentingly gory as the original, there are still rivers of blood.
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75
The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
It's also, in its sick, sick way, a real crowd-pleaser.
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75
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
An authentic real-world creep show -- better, if anything, than its predecessor.
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70
The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
Roth has managed the rare feat of actually improving on the original.
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70
Variety Peter Debruge
In this twist-filled sequel, the real shocker is just how smart and satisfying such degradation can be. There's no question "Part II" outgrosses the original "Hostel" in the blood-and-guts department.
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63
TV Guide Ken Fox
Given its premise, it's hard for any Hostel sequel to be little more than a rehash.
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63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jason Anderson
May not be your idea of a fun European vacation, but Roth's trip offers horror fans more than the usual sick kicks.
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60
Los Angeles Times Gene Seymour
Hostel II is far too shrewd and savagely witty to be caught engaging in higher seriousness. Roth could probably go even further with this particular franchise if he wanted to. Yet somehow, I think he's meant for grander, subtler and more intricate distractions than this.
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50
San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
Basically torture porn.
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50
Portland Oregonian Lisa Rose
A decent second chapter in the tourist horror saga.
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40
Film Threat Zach Haddad
Eli Roth has potential, I just think he should leave Slovakia alone and focus on bigger and better things.
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40
Empire Simon Crook
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.
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38
New York Post Kyle Smith
A suspenseless rehash.
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38
ReelViews James Berardinelli
The problem with Hostel Part II is the same flaw that afflicted Hostel: no tension.
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30
The New York Times Laura Kern
Mr. Roth, part of a new breed of horror directors affectionately labeled the "Splat Pack," is regarded by some as a savior of the genre, though it could be argued that he is more effectively a saboteur. He might have mastered the cheap sadism-as-entertainment gross-out, but he has yet to produce a single genuine, old-fashioned fright.
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30
Village Voice Nathan Lee
Eli Roth punks capitalism all the way to the bank with cheap tricks and bankrupt imagination.
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25
USA Today Scott Bowles
The filmmakers behind the "Saw" franchise must love to see a movie like Hostel: Part II. Compared to this Eli Roth fetish video, the "Saw" films are Oscar bait.
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25
Boston Globe Wesley Morris
The moviemaking is driven only by contempt; he (Roth) wants to nauseate us into submission.
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25
Premiere Aaron Hillis
Fails in what amounts to its only distinct purpose: to smugly push the envelope of depravity farther than anyone else.
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0
Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
You live in a free country, you put up with crud like Hostel Part II. It truly is crud, though.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 4.8 (out of 10) based on 49 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

[Anonymous] gave it a5:
Why a five? Because it delivers exactly what it promises. Not in great quantities, or over great spans of time, but some scenes are pure gold to a horror/gore/"torture porn" fans.

D B. gave it a7:
I don't know, I just found it rather entertaining. I think people need to take the same sort of tongue-in-cheek attitude of Grindhouse to kind of get what Roth is doing. I think it was helped by the fact that I caught it on cable for 4 dollars, rather than paying 10 dollars and making a night out of it. Either way, I liked it.

Bryan C. gave it a0:
So bad, I can't even bothered wasting my time to slag this movie off. Metacrtic really needs to introduce minus scoring to accommodate nonsense like this.

P.A.V. T gave it a3:
Its story is almost irrelevant, its caracters are empty and repelling and its attempt to live up to the original is an utter failure

Greg T. gave it a0:
Beyond terrible. Tarantino and Roth can go to Hades. If you gave this film more than a 2, then you should not reproduce or interact in society in anyway.

William B. gave it a0:
This is an absolutely sick movie. Dont watch it unless you are forced to do so. I think it shouldn't be shown in the first place because the film glorifies violence. I agree with what JoeBlow wrote about it. How can anyone produce such a crap movie and how on earth can the director film the things like that?

Josh gave it a7:
Winston P. Fuck off and die Eli, and Tarantino are not hacks if you even think about bitching about any of their work I will chop off your dick. Good movie by the way.

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