“I do think that we all have lessons to learn in life, and I feel that one of Lorna's ultimate lessons was what happens when you decided to say f-k it and do something different, and the consequence of that for her was ultimately her death. It’s interesting for me to look back now, over 10 years from when I initially came onto the project and getting to see how she was this young woman who was very sheltered and very naïve, but also still there was this slight sense of privilege and entitlement to her and her friends.” But I thought it was interesting how she was also dealing with some mental health issues, which was something that I also think was often overlooked then, too. “I liked my character, though, and the truth is that the reason Lorna is so relatable is because I think that we all have that within us, right? We all have something that we’re struggling with.
I am slowly starting to come around as I get older because I'm able to detach from my initial empathetic reaction of, ‘Oh no, someone's getting hurt,’ and look at it from a wider-angle lens now, for lack of a better term.” But the truth is that I have never been a huge fan of horror. Not to mention that getting to spend three months in Prague would be a wonderful, fabulous time.
That moment in and of itself, I thought it would be incredibly challenging and something that I would like to explore as well. “The first thing that drew me to it was getting the opportunity to work on something where Quentin was involved, and also the death scene, too. When she was approached to be a part of Hostel: Part II, Matarazzo recalled what initially compelled her to come aboard the sequel. And while I enjoyed the performances from both German and Phillips immensely, it was always Matarazzo’s work in Hostel: Part II that stood out to me as some truly excellent character work we weren’t seeing that much of during this era in the genre, and I totally related to her “grandma in her twenties” persona with every fiber of my being. Many might feel like putting women in peril once again in Hostel: Part II was Roth backpedaling a bit on what he does in the original Hostel, but for me, I think the twist in the film’s final act involving German’s character more than makes up for it, and the three actresses and their characters who become the heart of this Hostel sequel are a vast improvement over the men in the first film (sorry, dudes!). In this instance, two of the auction winners are a pair of American businessmen, Todd (Richard Burgi) and Stuart (Roger Bart), who head to Slovakia early in order to get a sneak peek at their “prizes.”
There’s no denying that the sequel took the brutality of the original Hostel even further, but what I have always appreciated about both movies is how Roth took on how we examine violence in cinema and made it something that was both thoroughly uncomfortable and endlessly entertaining in the same token, ushering in a new wave of ultra-gore horror (sorry, I still refuse to acknowledge the term “torture porn” as a valid label to this very day), for better or worse.Īnd where in the first Hostel Roth centered his story around a group of young, haughty American men traveling overseas (which was rather refreshing to see), for Part II, he decided to flip the genders around, and this time focused on a trio of twentysomething women-Beth (Lauren German), Whitney (Bijou Phillips), and Lorna (Heather Matarazzo)-who get way more than they bargained for after they set out to visit a day spa in Slovakia, which turns out to be run by the Elite Hunting Company, who raffles off unsuspecting victims to the highest bidders.
While the film has certainly received a lot of grief from a variety of sources-fans, critics, even ratings boards-ever since its release in 2007, you can count this writer amongst the fans of Eli Roth’s Hostel: Part II.
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