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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 more fetish-filled spin ...

Gorehound Eli Roth reasserts his position as leader of the "splat pack," an unofficial fraternity of directors dedicated to topping one another's stomach-churning antics, with "Hostel: Part II." His ...

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 ...