Unfairly written off as a cheap and misogynistic cash-grab when it's actually a feminist horror film with a smart, relatable and queer final girl.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 30, 2020

A tight-fisted slow burn that whacks you in face with two or three really horrifying sequences.

| Aug 28, 2015

Gory torture bloodbath checks in for another stay.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 15, 2010

There are some grisly deaths gore hounds would approve of, but the focus is more on the motives of the murderous pervs and the inner workings of the snuff corporation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 7, 2010

Poseur callousness all the way

| Aug 27, 2009

Filmmaker Eli Roth tries to enliven the formula, but this sequel loses the grim surprise of the original without adding much new in terms of plotting or gory set pieces.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2008

This second film definitely shows Roth's absolute courage as a director. He didn't pull any punches with this follow up.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 3, 2008

The lasting effect of all three of Eli Roth's films is a certain kind of Grand Guignol "Punk'D", in which the "mark" is not only embarrassed, he's also cut to pieces.

| Apr 18, 2008

Roth não é apenas um sujeito doente e repulsivo, mas também um picareta sem talento que usa seus filmes para torturar o espectador como num de seus "albergues".

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 2, 2008

In the end, one comes to the conclusion that Roth, like his mentor Quentin Tarantino, is someone who is very good at talking the talk but can't quite bring himself to walk the walk and himself make the kind of film his own are parasitic upon.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 7, 2007

Roth's satire of fright junkie male castration fears and feminist castration fantasies, mandates that you're going to have to have your cock and eat it too, whether consumed live during elegant dining to the sound of opera, or by killer canine pets.

| Oct 30, 2007

Just a sub-par and obscenely overrated piece of lazy horror filmmaking...

| Oct 27, 2007

Roth's dark humor and lacerating view of human weakness sometimes suggest George Romero; what he lacks is Romero's stubborn belief in personal morality.

| Oct 23, 2007

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 20, 2007

Hostel, Part II is bad, but it's not the most objectionable torture porno by any conceivable yardstick.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 12, 2007

Sadly, the director's proven creative finesse has given way to boring self-imitation. Hostel: Part II gives us the same premise as the first film, changing genders and little else.

Full Review | Jul 11, 2007

Oh, do grow up.

| Jul 7, 2007

One may as well watch a marathon of American beheadings at the hands of Iraqi insurgents with popcorn in hand - the entertainment value is surprisingly comparable.

| Original Score: F | Jul 3, 2007

Picking up where the first film ended, writer-director Roth adds two angles to his formula, but neither is enough to make this grisly film worth watching.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 30, 2007

...marks a substantial leap forward in terms of [Eli Roth's] directorial abilities.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 30, 2007