Hostel/Hostel: Part II

Double helping of controversial horror from director Eli Roth.

In 'Hostel' (2005), three backpackers are on a tour of Europe when they hear of a Solvakian youth hostel that is rumoured to provide some of the best hedonistic pleasures on the continent.

When they arrive there, however, they are soon plunged into a living hell, as the hostel turns out to be the site of a horrific club where jaded rich people can pay huge sums of money to perform unspeakable tortures.

In the sequel, three young American women, Beth (Lauren German), Lorna (Heather Matarazzo) and Whitney (Bijou Phillips) are lured away to the hostel by the beautiful Eastern European model from their life drawing class while spending the summer in Rome studying art.

There they are forced into servitude and sold off to the highest bidder, a sick and depraved pervert who ties them up, tortures them in all kinds of unthinkable ways and gets his kicks from watching the young women die a slow and painful death.