The factory, with its snarling dogs and gates, recalls imagery from Holocaust movies like Schindler's List. (Stuart, having second thoughts en route to the factory, asks "Are we sick?" Todd responds "We're the normal ones!") Eastern Europe - with its history full of wars, genocide, and Grimm fairy tales - is portrayed as a place where recreational torture and death can become a profitable business. When a nude woman takes a blood shower under the spurting, suspended body of a dying victim, viewers will probably be too grossed out to do much thinking, but on a certain level, these Hostel movies do have a grim message: proposing that human nature really is this dark and depraved. But there are still gallons of blood and nonstop ghastly violence - so viewers who thought the first film was an atrocity won't see many redeeming qualities here, either.
So rather than waste time going through the motions again, director Eli Roth uses Hostel: Part II to address - a little bit - the philosophical rationale for the factory and the working operations of the secret society of murderers that maintains it. What's "better" about this equally sadistic sequel? This time around, the target audience (the sort of fans who instantly recognize the names of Italian gore-movie icons of the '70s in the supporting cast) are already in on the grisly secret. There's a (feeble) argument to be made that HOSTEL: PART II is a "better" film than the original gore-torture hit. He compares taking a life with having sex for the first time. Hostel barely gave viewers any details about the ordinary-looking sadists patronizing the place, but here Todd speaks eagerly of committing murder as a sort of rite of passage - it proves that you've got the proverbial eye of the tiger, that you're superior person. Viewers also meet the two American clients who paid to kill the girls: Todd (Richard Burgi), a boisterous, macho clod who can hardly wait to spill blood, and Stuart (Roger Bart), who's more hesitant and uncertain. Wealthy, smart Beth (Lauren German) bookish Lorna ( Heather Matarazzo) and party-girl Whitney (Bijou Phillips) are enticed by a slinky European model friend to the familiar Slovakian hostel and a colorful-yet-creepy ethnic festival. While the first movie's victims were primarily American college guys looking for easy drugs and sex, the sequel's premium prey consists of three female American art students. Their wealthy clients, ensconced in cushy skyscraper offices and corporate boardrooms, bid via Internet and PDA on who gets to have the choicest kill, then fly over to Slovakia to do it.
At the beginning of Part II, Hostel's sole escapee is eliminated by the secret society, whose evil influence turns out to reach worldwide.
In the first Hostel, an cheap European inn turns into a death trap for a group of college-age wayfarers when they're kidnapped, taken to a grim factory, and sadistically slaughtered by wealthy customers.
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