Hostel 2

Yeah, thought it was better in that I actually vaguely liked the characters this time round!

Mind you, I thought the nastiness of the torture chamber itself was more effective in the first one, either because it was new or because this time round some of it seems a little too elaborate- I found the first one easier to believe somehow.

Overall I think it's a better movie- Roth's still learning his craft, it would appear. Hostel was better than Cabin Fever, Hostel 2 better than Hostel... hopefully his adaptation of Stephen King's Cell will be better than all of them!
 
Just watched the first at the weekend (even though I bought the DVD months ago!), it was a good but could have been better in some places, looking forward to seeing the next one.
 
Just finished watching it and really disappointed.

Absolutlly no suspense.

The only part that got a reaction from me was that...


SPOILER








cannibalistic scene.
 
I quite liked it actually.

Much better than the first :p

The funniest bit was:
The make-up guy getting his nose bitten off

Also
The children playing football with that womans head

The bath scene was sick :eek:

The penis scene was also just ARRRGGHHH...*ouch* :cry:
 
i thought this film was hilarious! a good film and not a waste of time which i thought it may be. I would recommend this film if your up for a laugh "even my mother laughed at the film" :p
 
I laughed at stupid parts of the film - like when the blonde girl goes 'Ooh this is my song' and 'Would you like a smint?'

Only went because frienRAB were going, didn't enjoy it v much, although it was mildly entertaining
 
I watched it the other day and I enjoyed it. There are parts of it I thought could have been done better, but all in all it was very good.

Oh yes, the cannibalistic part! He didn't even cook it! :eek: Today's cannibals, I tell you: no class at all! :D

I thought the...

bloodbath scene

was good and had quite an impact because of the way it was done.

I was disappointed that...

Paxton was killed; I think that he could have played a much bigger role in this film if it had been rewritten. I thought the cat licking the neck of his corpse made that scene even more macabre and eerie, for some reason!

The star of the show, for me, is...

The 'make-up' bloke; I LOVED him, especially when he said: "I make you pretteeeeey"!

I was also glad that....

Stuart got his comeuppance by being de-parted. He deserved that, but I don't think the dog got much of a meal!

It was a great film, in my view.

:)
 
I saw this last night. I enjoyed it much more than the first Hostel film - but then I don't much like Horror. I was more interested in the mechanics of how the Elite Hunting Club was run, which this film went into a little.

I reckon this was a better, or at least more commercial, film. The pacing was better. In previous Eli Roth films I've seen, the first half may be artistically strong but is rather dull. Typically innocent teenagers on some kind of road trip, and it's a long time before anything actually bad happens. In H2 it doesn't wait around nearly so long. And when it does, because we know what's going to happen there is still a degree of anticipatory dread.

The victims are more likeable, and much less stupid than in Wolf Creek. We also get to see much more of the hunters, and explore some of the reasons why they do it.

The ending is hugely improved. H1 became very silly, in my view, very much like a 1970's video nasty and hard to take seriously, with coincidence after coincidence. The way the hero escaped wasn't very credible. In the second film the security is tightened up to a more realistic degree.

It has its weaknesses. The twists are pretty predictable, especially if you've seen the director's previous work and know, eg, how he plays with conventional victimology. And of course the basic situation is the same as the first film, with some familar locations, and we know how the production line goes. (Which is arguably a strength not a weakness - Horror is a genre where knowing what is going to happen does not spoil it.) There are things which happen more because they are scary than because they are plausible, but not enough to spoil it for me (that being one of the things I don't like about the genre).

Overall it's much better than Captivity, which I also saw recently.
 
Watched this the other night.

No way is it better than the first one, and that film was nothing to rave on a bout either. sorry I don't want to sound sarcastic to you. I just don't rate the Hostel movies. seen it all before in 'Saw'. We now have 'Vacancy' also, how many films can we make out of the same kind of supposed reality torture chambers?
 
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