Hostel 2 and the state of Horror Films in General

[CharlieDontSurf]

I think the torture porn aspect is a result of Roth liking to link porn/nudity with extreme violence.
In the above scene both girls are naked and Roth makes sure to highlight every inch of their naked bodies...then the torture and murder begins but he still plays up the sexual aspect with the girl rubbing blood all over her breasts etc.

The main problem with Hostel is its cheap and crass...its about a couple of homophobic douchy Americans who go to some Hostel in the middle of no where on the advice of a stranger(yeahhhh) in order to score some pussy, which apparantly isn't anywhere nearby.

Then once they get there it turns into a lame titty flick until the torture scenes begin which aren't suspensful or scary but simply dull.

This continues on and on till the end when the main character does something no one would ever do.

The directing was poor/most of the scenes were poorly written and had god awful dialogue...but there were a couple of interesting moments, which having listened to Roth talk about writing the film, were most likely accidental.
The theme of American using poor Europeans and vice versa...the American businessman and his scene at the end in the locker room.

The problem with the sequel is its the same exact same movie...just using girls this time and making the violence more extreme and sexual.

Saw at least tries to attempt to create a crappy story with each of its sequels.

these recent movies are all crap even within the horror genre. They are poorly written, have meaningless one dimensional characters and aren't even scary or frightening.

Hostel 1 & 2 / Wrong Turn / Cabin Fever / Hill Have Eyes 2 / Saw 2 & 3 / TCSM 1 & 2 etc etc