Iveta Rucka in Hostel: Part II (2007)

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Eastern Europe remains rough-going for party-hearty American youths in writer-director Eli Roth's splat-tastic horror sequel Hostel: Part II (2007). Whereas the original Hostel followed the ghastly misadventures of three college-age dudes, Part II switches genders and ups the mayhem considerably. Bijou Phillips, Heather Matarazzo, and Lauren German portray coeds who end up in Slovakia where they, then, meet variously inventive but uniformly unpleasant ends. Our heroines fall prey to moneyed sadists who travel the globe to live out their most depraved fantasies via an underground society that hunts down and delivers helpless nubiles to them for whatever their craven desires may be. The only requirement is that each victim gets killed . . . eventually. Hostel: Part II pays tribute to terrors of the past, both real and cinematic, by casting vintage '70s Euro-vixen Edwige Fenech and Italian cannibal-flick icon Ruggero Deodato in supporting roles, as well as recreating the legend of Countess Elizabeth Bathory with a naked Heather, a naked Monika Malacova, an empty tub, and a series of long, slow, blood-draining cuts. The final series of jolts may seem especially cruel to male viewers in the wake of the undeniably erotic nudity, but that's only in keeping with the Hostel series' pitch-black prankster spirit.