10 Horror Movie Sequels That Were Just Too Cruel

10. Hostel: Part II

Now, the first Hostel movie was certainly not a compassionate picnic in the park - having birthed the so-called "torture porn" subgenre and all - but Part II takes the cruelty to a whole other level.

For starters, the sequel kicks off by brutally killing the rather likeable protagonist of the original movie, Paxton (Jay Hernandez), by having him be decapitated by a member of the "Elite Hunting Club".

But it only gets more agonising from there. Hostel: Part II's most memorable death scene sees the sweet, naive Lorna (Heather Matarazzo) kidnapped, stripped, and hung upside down, before a woman slits her throat with a scythe and nakedly bathes in the blood as it rains down on her.

Eli Roth easily endears the audience to Lorna and makes them root for her survival, only for her to die to the most prolonged and messed-up death in the entire movie.

Between that and Paxton's opening demise, this is a callously mean-spirited movie even for Roth's standards, and in a perhaps unrelated outcome went on to underperform at the box office compared to its predecessor.