In this instance, two of the auction winners are a pair of American businessmen, Todd (Richard Burgi) and Stuart (Roger Bart), who head to Slovakia early in order to get a sneak peek at their вЂњprizes.вЂќ ThereвЂ™s no denying that the sequel took the brutality of the original Hostel even further, but what I have always appreciated about both movies is how Roth took on how we examine violence in cinema and made it something that was both thoroughly uncomfortable and endlessly entertaining in the same token, ushering in a new wave of ultra-gore horror (sorry, I still refuse to acknowledge the term вЂњtorture pornвЂќ as a valid label to this very day), for better or worse.ДЄnd where in the first Hostel Roth centered his story around a group of young, haughty American men traveling overseas (which was rather refreshing to see), for Part II, he decided to flip the genders around, and this time focused on a trio of twentysomething women-Beth (Lauren German), Whitney (Bijou Phillips), and Lorna (Heather Matarazzo)-who get way more than they bargained for after they set out to visit a day spa in Slovakia, which turns out to be run by the Elite Hunting Company, who raffles off unsuspecting victims to the highest bidders. While the film has certainly received a lot of grief from a variety of sources-fans, critics, even ratings boards-ever since its release in 2007, you can count this writer amongst the fans of Eli RothвЂ™s Hostel: Part II.

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