Jump to content

Hostel: Part II: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous editNext edit →
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
DeadEyeArrow (talk | contribs)
29,017 edits
m Reverted 3 edits by 76.208.143.38; Rv, removal of content. TW
Line 90: Line 90:
In terms of box office, ''Hostel: Part II'' underperformed when compared to its predecessor. The film opened in 6th place in the US and in 3rd place in the UK and took in an estimated $8,203,391<ref>http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=hostel2.htm</ref> its opening weekend, less than half of what the original film made. However, "Hostel: Part II" opened in June during the big summer blockbusters, when the first film opened in January. The film cost $10.2 million dollars, and recouped its budget within the first week of release. With foreign box office the film still turned a profit in its theatrical release, making the DVD potentially very lucrative. As of August 5, 2007, Hostel Part 2 has made over $41,000,000 in its foreign box office (boxofficemojo.com), which was more than the first film's foreign total of about $33,000,000
In terms of box office, ''Hostel: Part II'' underperformed when compared to its predecessor. The film opened in 6th place in the US and in 3rd place in the UK and took in an estimated $8,203,391<ref>http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=hostel2.htm</ref> its opening weekend, less than half of what the original film made. However, "Hostel: Part II" opened in June during the big summer blockbusters, when the first film opened in January. The film cost $10.2 million dollars, and recouped its budget within the first week of release. With foreign box office the film still turned a profit in its theatrical release, making the DVD potentially very lucrative. As of August 5, 2007, Hostel Part 2 has made over $41,000,000 in its foreign box office (boxofficemojo.com), which was more than the first film's foreign total of about $33,000,000


The film has been restricted to adults in most countries. However, it has been cut in [[Germany]] and [[Singapore]]. It was banned in [[New Zealand]], after the distributor refused to cut the scene showing the sexualised torture of Lorna to receive an R18 certificate.
The film has been restricted to adults in most countries. However, it has been cut in [[Germany]] and [[Singapore]]. It was banned in [[New Zealand]], after the distributor refused to cut the scene showing the sexualised torture of Lorna to receive an R18 certificate. The film should be released on DVD later this year with the scene removed.


==Controversy==
==Controversy==

Revision as of 21:02, 18 September 2007

Hostel: Part II
Final U.S. movie poster for the film
Directed byEli Roth
Written byEli Roth
Produced byScott Spiegel
Boaz Yakin
Quentin Tarantino
StarringLauren German
Bijou Phillips
Heather Matarazzo
Jay Hernandez
Jordan Ladd
Roger Bart
Vera Jordanova
Richard Burgi
CinematographyMilan Chadima
Edited byGeorge Folsey Jr.
Brad E. Wilhite
Music byNathan Barr
Distributed byLionsgate
Screen Gems
Release dates
June 8, 2007
CountryUnited States United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$10.2 million[1]

Hostel: Part II is the sequel to Eli Roth's 2005 horror film Hostel. The film was released on June 8 in the United States and was later released on June 292007, in the United Kingdom.

Plot

Beginning where Hostel ended, Paxton (Jay Hernandez) is roused on a train in Slovakia and taken to a hospital and questioned by a member of Elite Hunting posing as a detective. Paxton is eviscerated before waking up from his nightmare. Paranoid about the Elite Hunting personnel he argues with his girlfriend Stephanie (Jordan Ladd) and leaves. The next morning she finds his decapitated body sitting at the kitchen table while his head is delivered to Sasha, a top operative of Elite Hunting (Milan Knazko).

Beth (Lauren German), Whitney (Bijou Phillips) and Lorna (Heather Matarazzo), the American protagonists who are studying abroad in Italy, meet Axelle (Vera Jordanova) who offers to take them out for drinks. They accept. Later, on a train, a man (Axelle's accomplice) "robs" Lorna, after which Axelle visits the girls' train car and persuades the girls to join her on a spa vacation in Slovakia.

The party arrive in Slovakia, checks into the same hostel from the first movie, and retires to their rooms. The clerk uploads their photos to a website and an auction begins. An American named Todd (Richard Burgi) wins Whitney and his best friend Stuart (Roger Bart) wins Beth.

Later, at the "Harvest Festival", it is revealed that Beth has inherited a significant amount of money from her mother. An excited Lorna explains to Beth that a man named Roman has invited her on a boat ride. Beth tries unsuccessfully to persuade her not to go. Roman and Lorna disembark on a secluded part of the shore, where Lorna is assaulted and knocked unconscious by two of Roman's accomplices. Meanwhile Stuart and Beth meet and share an awkward moment together over a drink.

Later that night, Beth becomes worried when Lorna doesn't return. Axelle agrees to stay at the festival and wait for Lorna while Beth returns to the hostel with Whitney. The next morning, Beth, Whitney, her friend Miroslav (Stanislav Ianevski) and Axelle are enjoying the hot springs, assuming Lorna is still with Roman.

Lorna is revealed to be naked, gagged and hanging by her ankles in the middle of a large room. A woman credited as Mrs. Bathory (Monika Malacova) enters and disrobes before getting into a candlelit tub directly below Lorna. She then slashes repeatedly at Lorna's back with a scythe which showers her with Lorna's blood, then slits her throat with a sickle and bathes in her blood.

At the hostel, two men try to corner Beth in the hot springs but she runs into the woods, only to be attacked by the kids' "bubblegum gang". Sasha arrives and shoots one of the children while Beth is taken to his house, where Axelle is revealed to be an accomplice of Elite Hunting. Beth tries to hide but she is subdued after stumbling into a room with severed heads, including Paxton's, on display.

Meanwhile Whitney is tied to a chair, while a woman applies make-up to her. She bites the tip of her nose off and escapes, only to be retrieved by two men armed with a pack of vicious guard dogs. Todd approaches a bound Whitney with a circular saw and teases her with it, but accidentally scalps her and refuses to finish her off out of guilt. The Elite Hunting security kill him using a pack of dogs for violation of his contract. Stuart, who was in the torture room with Beth, finally decapitates Whitney.

Beth pleads with Stuart for help, and manages to trick him and trap him in the chair. When he refuses to give her the code to unlock the door, she sticks a needle in his ear, before threatening to castrate him. Elite Hunting officials, including Sasha, come into the room and Beth bargains with Sasha to buy her freedom, seeing as she has inherited a lot of money. As the "contract" requires killing someone in order to leave, she castrates Stuart, tosses his genitalia to the dogs to eat and orders him to be left to bleed to death.

In the closing sequence, Axelle is lured into the woods by the Bubblegum Gang, where she is tripped and then decapitated by Beth. The film ends with the gang playing soccer with Axelle's head.

Cast

Eli Roth, his brother Gabriel and Quentin Tarantino make cameo appearances as heads on sticks.

Locations

An initial movie poster for the film.

In October 2006, Eli Roth shot scenes for the movie in the Prague online brothel Big Sister and in Iceland, Bláa Lónið.[2]

Marketing

Lions Gate showed the first 5 minutes of Hostel 2 before select screenings of Bug, which opened on May 25th, 2007.[3] In one of the trailers the narrator says "It's only a movie," which was the tagline to the controversial horror film The Last House on the Left directed by Wes Craven. It was promoted in commercials on TV as having "the most shocking ending in horror movie history,".

Director Eli Roth and cast member Bijou Phillips attended UFC 71 during which the movie was promoted.

At the date of the U.S. premiere of the movie on June 8, 2007, interviews with the Hostel 2 director Eli Roth were released at Big Sister[4].

Reaction

Critical reaction to Hostel: Part II have been mixed, with critics either deriding the film as unsophisticated, misogynistic, infantile, and too violent, or hailing it as a subversive, smart masterpiece [5]. Metareviews site Rotten Tomatoes showed a 52% overall approval rating, with the "Cream of the Crop" scoring it at a 50% overall. [6]

On the more positive side, Peter Sciretta of /Film gave Hostel: Part II 9 out of 10 stars stating that this film shows "Roth’s growth as a cinematic horror director."[7] Michael Guillen of TwitchFilm states, "Hostel 2 takes everything I found offensive about Hostel and ups the ante, becoming even more outrageous and, in the process, somehow funnier and—dare I say it?—more enjoyable. Perfectly pitched to the extreme, Hostel 2 emerges unabashedly camp and this is why it's a better movie than its predecessor."[8]

Writer and Attorney Julie Hilden defended "Hostel Part II" and free speech in her legal essay: "Free Speech and the Concept of Torture Porn: Why Are Critics so Hostile to Hostel II?"

In terms of box office, Hostel: Part II underperformed when compared to its predecessor. The film opened in 6th place in the US and in 3rd place in the UK and took in an estimated $8,203,391[9] its opening weekend, less than half of what the original film made. However, "Hostel: Part II" opened in June during the big summer blockbusters, when the first film opened in January. The film cost $10.2 million dollars, and recouped its budget within the first week of release. With foreign box office the film still turned a profit in its theatrical release, making the DVD potentially very lucrative. As of August 5, 2007, Hostel Part 2 has made over $41,000,000 in its foreign box office (boxofficemojo.com), which was more than the first film's foreign total of about $33,000,000

The film has been restricted to adults in most countries. However, it has been cut in Germany and Singapore. It was banned in New Zealand, after the distributor refused to cut the scene showing the sexualised torture of Lorna to receive an R18 certificate. The film should be released on DVD later this year with the scene removed.

Controversy

On June 15 2007 a 28 year old man, Björn Jue, was strapped to a chair and tortured to death in the town of Pernis, The Netherlands. The suspected murderers, Jeffrey van S. and Walter A. (25) are said to have been inspired by a gruesome torture scene in "Hostel 2", which they reenacted after Jue's ex-girlfriend, Marian D. (24) told them he had repeatedly molested his 5-year old son; however this accusation has not been confirmed so far. Two police officers arrived at the scene after calls that Jue was "held against his will". Jue was screaming for his life. However, the officers did not enter the house and called for backup because this is standard procedure when a hostage situation is suspected. When backup arrived half an hour later (some witnesses claim it was more than an hour later), the screaming had stopped. Jue died at the scene. Full details were not disclosed for being "too horrible and beyond imagination." [10] [11] [12] [13]

Screener and workprint leaks

On May 27, 2007, Bloody-Disgusting.com reported the film had hit the streets with a screener copy[14], almost two weeks before the film's June 8th release date in the United States.

A workprint version of the film was leaked to the internet on or about May 28th, 2007.

"Hostel Part II" was one of the most downloaded films on the internet, according to piratebay. Sony Pictures estimated the leak film hurt the film by 25% at the international box office.

Pop culture references

  • Lorna's murderer is named "Mrs. Bathory" after the historical serial killer Elizabeth Báthory, who, in apocryphal accounts, dispatched young women in a manner nearly identical to that in the film, and then bathed in their blood to preserve her youth.
  • There is one reference to a Tarantino film during Hostel: Part II. The screening of the European dubbed Pulp Fiction (showing Jules and Vincent in the car) in the background of the hostel lobby calls back a reference to the first HOSTEL.

References

  1. ^ Hostel @ BoxOfficeMojo.com
  2. ^ Eli Roth's MySpace blog, 29 October 2006; Big Sister blog, 15 October 2006; Big Sister blog, 17 October 2006
  3. ^ joblo.com/5-minutes-of-hostel-2
  4. ^ Big Sister Pressroom
  5. ^ "Harry books a room in Eli Roth's HOSTEL: PART 2, it seems like a nice place to stay!". Ain't It Cool News. Retrieved 2007-07-12.
  6. ^ "Hostel: Part II". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2007-06-08.
  7. ^ http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/05/31/movie-review-hostel-part-ii/
  8. ^ "http://www.twitchfilm.net/archives/010221.html"
  9. ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=hostel2.htm
  10. ^ http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/66891721/Politie_doof_voor_gegil_martelmoord.html
  11. ^ http://www.ad.nl/binnenland/article1487850.ece
  12. ^ http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/66935521/Rijksrecherche_stelt_onderzoek_in_naar_moord_Pernis.html
  13. ^ http://www.nu.nl/news/1142183/13/%27Martelmoord_om_misbruik_kind%27.html
  14. ^ http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/8961

Template:Eli Roth Films

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Hostel:_Part_II&oldid=158808593"