November 2, 2007

Hostel Part II (2007)

On Halloween night, we also watched Hostel - Part II.
Synopsis:

Three female college students take a detour from their partying, enticed by a beautiful European woman who promises seclusion, safety and maybe even romance. What they get is a living hell where they are sold to the highest bidder who's fondest wish is to kill them slowly. Hostel 2 also follows 2 American men who, on the flip side of the coin, are willing to pay to join an exclusive club where a life will end at their hands...any way they like. It's a story of human monsters and the almighty dollar as only Eli Roth could tell it.

Hostel Part II stars Bijou Phillips, Lauren German, Heather Matarazzo, Roger Bart, and Richard Burgi.

The Two American men are brothers (Bart and Burgi) and they have paid to join the club of people who outbid each other to be able to kill a person any way they want to.
There was also a woman who outbid several other people, in order to kill one of the girls too.
She ends up taking the life of our first college girl victim, Lorna, played by Matarazzo.
Lorna dies a very slow at first, torturous death.

This leaves Beth (German) and Whitney (Phillips) to be killed.
Burgi picks Whitney and is so excited through the entire movie, right up until it's time to actually do the deed.
He wants to kill, believes it will give him power, that people will just sense he's a dangerous man and never fuck with him again.
Bart gets Beth and through the whole movie, he's squeamish and unsure if this is what he wants to do, the total opposite of his brother.
But when it comes time to actually kill, Burgi can't go through with it after his first cut into Whitney.
He makes a mistake with a hand saw, and refuses to fulfill the contract he signed.
The contract states that if you go in the room, you must kill the person inside it.
Breach of contract means death for you, and Burgi meets his end at the hand of a pack of flesh loving dogs.

Bart who at first seems like he wants to help Beth get free, is actually just playing a game with her, making it seem like help, kindness, and then he turns into the monster he really is, the killer his brother couldn't be.
But Beth gets the upper hand and gets away.

It was a great twist to her character, to the whole movie, to have her be able to go free.
I won't tell you and ruin it in case you want to check it out, but I laughed my ass off when she was able to leave.

A warning to the guys who may want to watch this. You might want to have a few drinks and wear a cup.
There's a scene with a penis and some cutters that will have you clutching your balls and crying for your mommy.

I really enjoyed this one. Slightly less violent and less bloody than the first Hostel, but had a better story, we learned more about our characters and more about the club that that killers want to join.
Scale of 1 to 5, I give Hostel Part II a 4.