10 Nastiest Horror Films Since 2000

10. Hostel Part II

Everybody seems to hate Eli Roth and, yes, Hostel II is just an all-girl facsimile of Hostel I, but he’s genuinely trying to make a modern day exploitation movie here, even throwing in cameos from Edwige Fenech (All The Colors Of The Dark) and Ruggero Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust), who gets one of the film’s best scenes as “The Italian Cannibal.”

Judged from that perspective, the film works better than Rob Zombie’s Halloween reboot (released the same year), with a real 70s feel to the unrestrained narrative. It’s also nastier and bloodier, most explicitly in a sequence where a naked woman is hung upside down while another woman cuts her and bathes in her blood.

Throw in a decapitation, genital mutilation and a character being ripped apart by dogs and you’ve got a good old Drive-in movie that was made for multiplexes. If Roth added scratches and a few fake trailers, he could’ve given audiences a cult movie instead of a gratuitous sequel.