The throat slashing seems tame by comparison.ĥ. Whitney ( Hostel: Part II) – Saw Blade to the Face The shot of his heel when he takes a step is enough to make anyone turn away. After having a few holes drilled into his leg, his killer slits his Achilles tendons and allows him to attempt to walk out. His death introduced us to the madness that would play out over the course of the rest of the series. The first major kill in the Hostel franchise (though not the first major death, that would be Oli’s off-screen decapitation) is a brutal one, if only for the fact that it was implied that Josh (Derek Richardson) would be the “Final Girl” of the film. At least she saved a lot of money on therapy this way. The fact that she would rather die than live life with a facial deformity is the real disturbing thing about this death. I’ve written about how difficult it is to watch Kana’s scenes in Hostel because of the eye pus, but her death is nearly as disturbing as she chooses to commit suicide by jumping in front of a train. It doesn’t hurt matters that Beth (Lauren German) was finally able to get her revenge on her after she helped get all of her friends killed. This is just your standard, everyday decapitation, but the real kicker (no pun intended) here is that the kids in the “Bubblegum Gang” play soccer with her head. We get to briefly revisit Paxton in Roth’s clever homage to Friday the 13th Part 2. It’s not long before his girlfriend (Jordan Ladd) discovers her cat licking the neck wound on his headless corpse though. Paxton’s (Jay Hernandez) death may happen off-screen, but that doesn’t mean it’s not brutal when you finally see it. Granted, it would have been a little bit nicer had they suffered some kind of torture like poor Josh (more on him in a bit).ĩ. It’s not that this set of deaths is particularly memorable, it was just so cathartic to see all of these characters get what was coming to them. To celebrate the occasion (and in addition to Jonathan’s post from earlier today), we thought we would rank the top ten kills in the trilogy! ***Everything that follows is NSFW. ESPECIALLY #2***ġ0. Natalya, Svetlana, and Alexei ( Hostel) – Hit by Car As for Hostel: Part III, the less said about that one the better, but I digress. Personally, I think the first Hostel is alright, but I absolutely love Hostel: Part II. Now when people mention it, they seem to only be able to recall the “torture porn” trend that it started.
When it was released in 2005, it was highly regarded, especially in the horror community. Lately, Hostel seems to have lost the respect it once received in the public eye. Today marks the 10th anniversary of the release of Eli Roth’s now infamous film Hostel.
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