Hostel: Part II: Horror. Starring Lauren German, Roger Bart, Heather Matarazzo and Bijou Phillips. Directed by Eli Roth. (R. 93 minutes. At Bay Area theaters. See complete movie listings and show ...

Eli Roth’s “Hostel: Part II” will leave most viewers – including hard-core horror fans – feeling dirty. This sequel to the super-violent splatter film gives a more gruesome and fetish-filled spin to ...

With “Hostel: Part II,” the sequel to his successful 2006 gorefest, Eli Roth has made even more of a grindhouse flick than his buddy and mentor, Quentin Tarantino. A woman is suspended upside-down, ...

You live in a free country, you put up with crud like “Hostel Part II.” It truly is crud, though. The film is the definition of torture porn, and regarding the Motion Picture Association of America’s ...

April: "It used irony perfectly. In Hostel we see something you don't stereotypically see in horror/gore movies; perfect saturated irony." True horror movies are odd beasts. The best ones produce a ...

Eli Roth’s “Hostel” was the class act of the current torture-porn cycle. That’s a relative judgment, but it did seem to have just the right balance of sexuality, creeps, disgusting invention and ...

Lauren German, Bijou Philips and Heather Matarazzo are offering themselves up for punishment in Hostel 2. Following the premise of Eli Roth's horror hit, the sadistic sequel will follow the ...

Eli Roth’s Hostel is a film that I have grown to like less with the passing of time. The central trio of friends featured in the first installment come across as obnoxious and grating. The first time ...

To dismiss the Hostel movies as thoughtless "torture porn" of the Saw variety doesn't do justice to the sophistication behind them, even if that sophistication is undermined on occasion by dumb ...

With writer-director Eli Roth opting to stick around for this follow-up, he not only assures a certain measure of quality control, but he also has managed the rare feat of actually improving on the ...