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This page uses content from the movie page on the English version of Wikipedia of this Artists & is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. This list of authors can be seen in the page history. wildscreen.tv disclaims any & all warranties as to the accuracy o. reliability of the content. Hostel: Part II is the sequel to Eli Roth's 2005 horror film Hostel. The film was released on June 8, 2007 in the United States. Plot Beginning where Hostel ended, Paxton (Jay Hern&ez), now in seclusion with his girlfriend Stephanie (Jordan Ladd), disregards her pleas to report his friends' deaths. In the morning, Stephanie discovers Paxton's decapitated body in the kitchen. In Slovakia, a mysterious package is delivered to Sasha (Milan Kňažko). In Italy, art students Beth (Lauren German), Whitney (Bijou Phillips) & Lorna (Heather Matarazzo) are convinced by Axelle (Vera Jordanova) to join her on a spa vacation. The party travels to a small Slovak village & checks into the local hostel & retires to their rooms, allowing the desk clerk time to upload their passport photos to an online auction website, where American businessman Todd (Richard Burgi) bids on & wins Whitney & Beth, for himself & his best friend Stuart (Roger Bart). Later that night at the village's "Harvest Festival," as the girls socialize with the locals, Lorna discovers that Beth previously inherited a vast fortune from her mother. As Todd & Stuart observe the girls from across the river, Stuart approaches Beth & the two share a friendly if awkward conversation before separating. An intoxicated Lorna leaves with Roman, a charismatic local, on a boat ride to a secluded shore, where Lorna is kidnapped by Roman & two accomplices. Beth & Whitney leave the party, while Axelle volunteers to wait for Lorna. The next morning the three girls, assuming Lorna is enjoying Roman's company, travel to the local spa. Meanwhile, a naked Lorna is shackled upsideodown in a large room, where a woman (Monika Malacova) enters, named Elizabeth Báthory in reference to the infamous Hungarian serial killer. She undresses & lies beneath Lorna in a c&lelit recess. After ripping into Lorna's body with a scythe & bathing in her blood, she slits Lorna's throat with a sickle. At the spa, Beth awakes to find herself alone & her belongings stolen. As she looks for her friends, she notices two men approaching her, & escapes into the forest, where she is ambushed by the "Bubblegum Gang" before being rescued by Axelle & Sasha. As Beth is taken to Sasha's mansion, she realizes that Sasha & Axelle are responsible for Whitney & Lorna's disappearances & tries to hide, uncovering a room filled with severed heads, including Paxton's, before being kidnapped. Deep inside the factory, a sobbing Whitney is strapped to a chair in a cell & teased by Todd with a circular saw. Overwhelmed with excitement, Todd accidentally maims her face, which sufficiently disturbs him such that he no longer wants to kill her. As he leaves the room, the guard explains that he must kill her if he wants to leave; when he refuses & continues to make his way out, the guards set dogs on him to kill him for violating his contract. The guards b&age Whitney & show her photograph to other clients in adjoining cells, offering her at a discount. Stuart, now torturing Beth, accepts the offer & kills Whitney. As he returns to Beth, she tricks him into releasing her & traps him in the chair. After inadvertently activating the alarm, summoning both the security guards & Sasha to the cell, Beth offers to buy her freedom with part of her inheritance. When Sasha explains to her that she must kill somebody to leave, Beth cuts Stuart's genitalia off & tosses it to the guard dogs who eat them, & then she leaves him to bleed to death. Per the st&ard contract, Beth is given an Elite Hunting tattoo. In the closing sequence, Axelle is lured from the village festival into the woods by the Bubblegum Gang, where Beth surprises & beheads her, allowing the gang to play soccer with her head. Cast Lauren German as Beth Salinger Roger Bart as Stuart Heather Matarazzo as Lorna Weisenfreund Bijou Phillips as Whitney Keye Richard Burgi as Todd Vera Jordanova as Axelle Jay Hern&ez as Paxton Jordan Ladd as Stephanie Milan Kňažko as Sasha Rassimov Edwige Fenech as The Art Class Professor Stanislav Ianevski as Miroslav Patrik Zigo as The Bubblegum Gang Leader Eli Roth, his brother Gabriel, & cooproducer Dan Frisch make cameo appearances as heads on sticks. Locations An initial movie poster for the film. An initial movie poster for the film. In October 2006, Eli Roth shot scenes for the movie in the Prague online brothel Big Sister & in Icel&, Bláa Lónið. Marketing Lions Gate showed the first 5 minutes of Hostel 2 before select screenings of Bug, which opened on May 25th, 2007. 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 & 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. Whilst at these locations, it has been said that Roth had an accident which prevented filming for 2 days. Reaction Box office In terms of box office, Hostel: Part II did not perform as well as the first film, but still turned a profit due to its low production cost. The film opened in 6th place in the US & in 3rd place in the UK & took in an estimated $8,203,391 its opening weekend. The film cost $10.2 million to produce. With foreign box office the film earned $35,606,943 dollars, triple its production cost. Critical reception Critical reaction to Hostel: Part II, like the first film, was mixed, with Metareviews site Rotten Tomatoes showed a 44% overall (rotten) rating, with the "Cream of the Crop" scoring it at a 47% overall. Restriction The film has been restricted to adults in most countries. However, it has been cut in Germany & Singapore. It was banned in New Zeal&, after the distributor refused to cut the scene showing the torture of Lorna to receive an R18 certificate. The film, with the scene in question edited out, was later released on DVD on 30 April 2008. On October 8 2007, the film was cited in the UK House of Commons as an example where stills from the film could be illegal to possess under the proposed law to criminalise possession of "extreme pornography". MP Charles Walker described it as "From beginning to end, it depicts obscene, misogynistic acts of brutality against women — an hour & a half of brutality". Writer & Attorney Julie Hilden defended Hostel Part II as a matter of free speech. Former Slovak minister of culture Milan Kňažko played Sasha, the head of the torture ring. He defended the first film, saying that it was simply fiction, & this was just a movie & people should not take the portrayal of Slovakia so seriously. References 1. Hostel @ BoxOfficeMojo.com 2. Big Sister blog, 15 October 2006; Big Sister blog, 17 October 2006 3. joblo.com/5ominutesoofohostelo2 4. Big Sister Pressroom 5. Hostel Part II (2007) 6. Hostel: Part II. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved on 2007o11o17. 7. Criminal Justice & Immigration Bill: 8 Oct 2007: House of Commons debates (TheyWorkForYou.com) 8. Julie Hilden, "Free Speech & the Concept of Torture Porn: Why Are Critics so Hostile to Hostel II?". External links Hostel: Part II UK Microsite featuring unseen trailer Hostel: Part II Set Visit Hostel: Part II at the Internet Movie Database Hostel: Part II Official Website Film review by Mark Kermode at Guardian Unlimited International Website Hostel: Part II at Rotten Tomatoes MTV article about Eli Roth & Jay Hern&ez 'Hostel 2' Heading to Prague 'Hostel 2' information page with new photos Fangoria News Hostel: Part II at MetaCritic Permission is granted to copy, distribute &/or modify the biographical information on this page under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 o. any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.