![]() ![]() Your bedroom is equipped with a modern A/C, a fan and a minibar. ![]() The large salon is ideal for relaxing, reading a book, chatting with a friend, drinking a famous cuban coffee or even having a dance lesson. The old style of the house with its high doors and ceilings and its giant windows always let you feel a very good ventilacion and offer you luminous rooms. The house is built as a corner house (in the 1st floor) with balconys to two streets („Dragones“ and „Campanario“). Hostal Aissa is a neocolonial house located in the heart of Habana in „Centro Habana“ (in China Town). Highly recommended.Owner: Elvira y Aissa | Hostal Aissa | 2456 hits a truly well-rounded horror film, which is a growing rarity in this age of shock cinema. For everything the first film lacked, the second makes up for it and then some. Although you have to see "Hostel" to fully understand "Hostel 2", I think the punishment is worth the reward. His scene was not initially in the script (Roth showed up on Deodato's set personally to invite him to Prague) but I think it really clinches the deal of providing us a film that is both new and also giving homage to the classic. ![]() He appears, appropriately, as the Italian cannibal. Another great cameo is Ruggero Deodato, the maestro of Italian cannibal films ("Last Cannibal World" and "Cannibal Holocaust"). While we ought to be against him (he's after the protagonists), the film gives us the point of view that he's just being human, no matter how awful he comes across. Rick Hoffman, who was "The American client" in the first film, returns as "the American businessman". Roth is fully capable of telling a story, as this movie shows, and I'm glad he chooses this over the shock value of sex and torture. Nudity is less prevalent (but still present). By having a female cast, the male audience gets to watch the young ladies the majority of the time while also developing a plot and character motivations. Visually appealing, sure - but no substance. In the first film, to accomplish this the boys had to come across numerous loose women with no character development. Let's assume the audience (mostly male) wants to see beautiful women, which I think is a safe assumption. ("Battle Royale" also addressed this, though the characters in that film were in a more forced and less natural environment.) Focusing on a female cast rather than male one really helps, I think. (Some of them are still just ruthless killers, of course.) At one point, a potential murderer raises a philosophical point posed in the past by Hobbes, Rousseau and Locke: without laws, how is man naturally going to respond to others in a state of nature? To some degree, they attempt to answer this question. ![]() There is a depth and complexity to them that allows us to almost sympathize with their angle, no matter how reprehensible they may be. Torture clients aren't just faceless monsters in "Hostel 2", but real people with hopes, dreams and fears. Relying far less on torture and excessive nudity (although both are present here), we get an actual plot, likable characters and best of all a glimpse into the other side. Guess what? We have a sequel that eclipses the original in every way - this one is pretty amazing. So "Hostel 2" sat unreviewed for several month before I finally broke down and watched it. I loved "Cabin Fever", but grew weary of Eli Roth after his second feature. Will they meet the same fate, or perhaps they'll have more luck? And what ever became of the kids from the first film? Full disclosure: I didn't like "Hostel" very much. Now, a group of American girls ends up at the same hostel. In "Hostel", a group of young men end up at a hostel in Slovakia that kidnaps people for its clients to torture and kill. ![]()
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