Three American students of art history in Rome decided to take a vacation in Prague. On the train they meet a friend who convinces her to go with a remote hostel in Slovakia. The three accepted without knowing what awaits them. Beth (Lauren Germany), Whitney (Bijou Phillips) and Lorna (Heather Matarazzo) arrived at the place where they were listed and auctioned for sale to the highest bidder.
is not easy to judge this return to the hostel cursed, and not for several reasons.
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First is a number 2: this means that the element of surprise is now evaporated, we expect a rather heavy hand on torture, abuse and several butchers, we tried something more, something new, a kind of orgy of hemoglobin.
Eli Roth, however, undertakes and manages to half that, we propose a story that is already known and with a sort of cliché but in a different, more mature if you will, even if a misbehaving dog's foster brother Tarantino may seem strange.
Hotel 2 is less "beautiful" the first episode, there are moments of tired, too much explanation, perhaps, too much downtime. But some are right and proper, because it is not to lengthen the stock, but to give plausibility to convince the viewer, to deepen the characters, try entering the psychology of victims and executioners , and in this sense it is a film better than the previous work done on the stories of two jailers and in particular on the character of the unlucky Matarazzo deserves, we allow ourselves to take the characters, which in the previous chapter was done only for the main protagonist.
But let's face it, those who go to see Hotel (as well as those who want the Saw or surrogates like that) looking for blood, disembowelment, scenes to cover their eyes, and here there are undoubtedly less, or rather are concentrated in the last half an hour, and there's that fun, indeed!
Even here, however, a clarification: the violence even if it is less obvious, less obvious, it is strong ... just think of a child murder, infanticide raw, cold. Especially
Hotel 2 continues to hit in the stomach for its atmosphere sick, anxious, claustrophobic , no open spaces, enclosed in a train, in a room or a room of torture.
Tremendously fascinating the first murder, a dark lady of the blood and as the witches of the best folk decided to bathe in the blood, a scythe cutting through the air, reminiscent of the Countess Bathory ... A lady's death, in the best tradition Gore's vintage.
And what about the two brothers? A "good" actually becomes the most sadistic of the two, in a fit of madness, while the creator of the macabre plan, really just eager to try something "new" split in half by a chainsaw and tries in vain to move away.
Roth has fun with the macabre and the humor that flows naturally in sadism, especially when there is a very special game of football ...
Quote Craven and his The Serpent and the Rainbow castration with a clearly visible and that seems completely out of the series of Cannibal ferox, and makes do with the myths seventies Italians what they have become famous, a great tribute to the Z-series made in Italy: the Fenech is a Professor, Luc Merenda of Italian detective is an investigator, Ruggero Deodato is (just) a cannibal with a lot of table and candle ...
Human life is a business, all ready to vent their frustrations , buying and paying for everything, looking for a small thrill: to buy a human body and see him cry, suffer, bleed, die.
And when the young protagonist, who has turned the situation with her torturer screams terrible that that phrase is " I buy my freedom " because so much has tons of money, take a chill: poor thing, he believed that he really bought his freedom, and instead is trapped in a web of violence and blood, in a vicious circle, where his first obligation is to be "torture" with a terrible tattoo on the back of a hound dog ...
To be free means to enter another round, in another cage. " Revenge then follows naturally, is rewarding, but is not definitive, and leaves a bitter taste in the mouth.
"Who has more money than the others decide who lives and who dies."
era of capitalism we are all beasts, we are all fierce, cruel, merciless.
Homo homini lupus, even horror.
... and of course the original film, Alejandro Amenabar's Open Your Eyes! 
