10 Horror Movie Sequels That Started In Surprising Ways

Oh, Paxton...

Having survived a whole bunch of Achilles-slicing, eye-popping, finger-chopping antics in 2005's Hostel, Jay Hernandez's Paxton had been put through quite the wringer. Of course, such an experience will leave one traumatised, and that's clearly the case for our sole Hostel survivor by the time we pick things up with him at the start of Hostel: Part II.

Living in seclusion with his girlfriend, we find a Paxton who is dealing with severe PTSD. It also doesn't help Hernandez's character that his beau believes he's exaggerating his trauma, with her feeling that a) Paxton's time in Slovakia can't have been that bad, and b) there's absolutely zero chance of the nefarious Elite Hunting Group being able to track Paxton down.

How wrong was she? In a jarring move, Hostel: Part II's opening sequence ends with Paxton's girlfriend finding his headless corpse in the pair's kitchen. From there, we see Paxton's decapitated head couriered to the waiting hands of Sasha, the big boss of the aforementioned Elite Hunting Group.

With that, this first Hostel sequel switches its attention to a trio of new female characters who soon find themselves in the sinister clutches of Sasha's organisation.