Hostel: Part IIpicks up immediately after the first film, wrapping up Paxton’s story before introducing the viewer to three new unwitting Americans. ![]() It’s a clever treatise made further uncomfortable by sliced Achilles tendons, eyeball trauma, severed limbs, and blunt force trauma. The college students in the film travel to Europe expecting to buy women and get bought themselves. In short, you tend to wish for the characters’ deaths long before it happens. ![]() It’s almost ironic considering that while the torture scenes are graphic and elicit visceral reactions, Roth spends a large chunk of the film’s run time intentionally driving the audience crazy with his breakdown of American stereotypes of Eastern Europe, and an uncomfortable depiction of a specific type of American. It was a term created out of derision, with some critics taking offense to the depiction of gore. ![]() For the films that use special effects of gore as an art form, and the fans that revel in the carnage, this series is for you.Įli Roth’s Hostel was the first film to be dubbed “torture porn” by critics, one of many horror films released in the early 2000s that earned the label for their graphic depictions of violence, gore, nudity, torture, and mutilation. Butcher Block is a weekly series celebrating horror’s most extreme films and the minds behind them. Dedicated to graphic gore and splatter, each week will explore the dark, the disturbed, and the depraved in horror, and the blood and guts involved.
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