An average movie

Since I didn’t like much the first installment, I didn’t expect much from this sequel but since it was on TV, I thought I might as well check it out. Eventually, I have to admit, it was not worse than the first movie, but it wasn’t better either, that’s for sure. Of course, this time, the victims were girls instead of boys and there you had the first issue. Indeed, how do you attract some girls to a remote and lugubrious Slovakian village? By promising a spa and a lame festival! I mean, come on, doesn't it sound exciting and irresistible to you?! Well, not me… At least, in the first installment, even though the execution was terribly lame and underwhelming, the whole concept of some horny boys being lured by the idea of some huge sexual orgy was actually rather believable. However, this time around, the whole spa thingy was kind of hard to swallow though. Still, there were a few good ideas like, for example, showing the whole process from the other point of view, from the perpetrators’ side. Unfortunately, even this idea was poorly developed and, in my opinion, they should have dropped the whole story of those girls ‘going to the spa’ and focus on those two buddies going for some hunting trip. So, I didn’t like this flick so much and, personally, I think that the whole Hostel franchise was a huge step down for Eli Roth who actually impressed me with his directing debut ‘Cabin Fever’. Anyway, after 6 long years, Roth finally made a come-back with a follow-up feature called ‘The Green Inferno’ and I wonder if it will be any good. To conclude, I didn’t care much for this sequel at all and I don’t think it is really worth a look, except maybe if you are a huge fan of the genre.

5/10