15 Awesome Films Since 2000 You'll Never Watch Again

15. Hostel Part II

Plot:

Three American women are lured into a remote part of Eastern Europe where Elite Hunting, an organisation where rich people pay to torture kidnapped victims to death, lies in wait.

Why It's Awesome:

An improvement over its terrible predecessor in every single way, this well-acted, suspenseful and surprisingly clever horror film is one of the best torture porn horror films to date.

Why You'll Only Watch It Once:

It's one of the most violent commercially-released American movies in history. If you can get through this, you can get through anything.

Torture porn movies are often uncomfortable sits, but this one is even worse than the others. Firstly, while the Saw films give the victims a chance of survival, Hostel doesn't offer the victims a chance of escape. Secondly, the torturers are everyday rich people fulfilling their darkest fantasies instead of random psychopaths, so this is an intensely misanthropic film.

On top of this, the violence in Hostel II is insanely nasty and happens to a bunch of likable characters that we actually care about, so seeing their nightmarish deaths is unpleasant to put it mildly. There's one scene involving a bath which is Incredibly hard to watch, while there's another moment towards the end that will make a lot of male viewers feel very queasy.

Definitely check it out, but much like Takashi Miike's Audition, it's a Torture Porn film that's too brutal to sit through twice.