7. Hostel Part II - Blood Orgy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-tW09SKG4Y With its focus on gory kills and gratuitous nudity - or as the term became coined, "torture porn" - the first Hostel was pushing it enough, yet this sequel not only sought to scrape the bottom of the barrel, but tip it upside down and pick up the crumbled remnants. There's one strangely erotic moment in the film when the uptight girl of the group, Lorna (Heather Matarazzo), is kidnapped, stripped naked and hung upside down by her ankles. A beautiful woman (Monika Malacova) enters the room - presumably a client who has paid for this sick ritual - and strips off, sitting down in a bathtub with some lit candles. She then pulls out a scythe, plays with Lorna for a bit, before she begins hacking away at her back, allowing the blood to douse her own naked body, even rubbing it over herself, clearly taking pleasure in bathing of the blood of a so-called "innocent", much in the vein of the classic Elizabeth Bathory tales. Once she's done, she slashes Lorna's throat with the scythe, causing one final spurt of gore to spray over her, which she takes clear delight in. The rest of the film may have sucked, but this scene was not only weirdly hot, but also utterly, utterly demented, and the only inspired scene in the entire film.
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