Spending A Hostel Night At The Grindhouse
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This past Sunday night, Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool News and the Alamo Drafthouse managed, at last minute, to put together a sneak preview screening of Eli Roth's Hostel: Part II. This was a special event, indeed. Eli announced to the everyone, this was the third screening of the movie in America and we were the first American audience he was watching it with. This totally made up for Eli missing out on SXSW 2007. The pre-show began with Eli getting his pain on. It was a mad house, I tell you. Then we got the see (again for me) Eli's director's cut version of his Grindhouse trailer, Thanksgiving.
What can I say about Hostel: Part II without spoiling too much. It starts off a short time after the first movie. There are both old and new characters. The male nudity towards the beginning of the movie is made up for by a later scene involving a nude Heather Matarazzo. We get to see the process of how people are bid on by members of "club". Those damn kids are back. I very much liked the way the two male American characters balanced off each other. There were many great horror movie moments. Oh the cuts you'll get to see. What you'll see behind the closed doors are different from the first movie. There's a scene in the third act that will make Hardy Candy look like a Walt Disney film. That's enough, go see it.
It's hard for me to say if Part II is better than the first movie. It's more like, Eli managed to expand upon the first movie. He told us during the post Q&A, he really does not want to turn Hostel into a trilogy. He was naming off all the bad third movies any film geek could understand, from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome to the recent Spider-Man 3. Afterward, we moved out into the lobby where Eli was signing free posters for everyone. When there was a ony a handful of us left, Eli was still eager to talk. By the time I walked out the door, it was past 3AM and my day was full.
All in all, everyone had a great time.
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I am so jealous.
Also, once again, I must say: Fuck you, Eli, Thunderdome was awesome. Stop including it in your list of shitty threequels.