Hostel: Part II - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Hostel: Part II or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Hostel: Part II

[darrell]

Daniel Frisch: (at around 1h 5 mins) the film's co-producer makes cameo appearance as a head on sticks.

[steve]

The car used by Sasha is a Maserati Quattroporte.

[ella]

(at around 11 mins) For Axelle's nude scene, Vera Jordanova's nipples were CGI.

[ivan]

(at around 10 mins) Eli Roth received some criticism over the amount of female nudity in the first film. Therefore, the first bit of nudity he included in this sequel was a brief shot of a fully naked man.

[aaron]

Luc Merenda also came out of retirement to play The Detective. Eli Roth is a huge fan of Merenda's 1970s Italian films such as Torso (1973) and Kidnap Syndicate (1975), and asked him to play the role. Merenda called Edwige Fenech and asked her how she enjoyed working with Roth, and her response was so overwhelmingly enthusiastic that Merenda agreed to do it. Now a successful top dealer, Luc Merenda last was seen on the 1992 television show Edera (1992), starring Susana Bequer, who plays The Translator in the scene with Merenda in Hostel: Part II (2007).

[beth]

Both Roger Bart (Stuart) and Richard Burgi (Todd) were in Desperate Housewives (2004) as George and Karl, respectively.

[lena]

For the scenes in the brothel that Stuart and Todd visit, Eli Roth was keen to film at a genuine brothel in Prague and eventually decided on Big Sister. It was famous for offering customers no charge for sex with the prostitutes, which would normally include fellatio and vaginal sex as well as kissing and licking on the women's bodies (including breasts), as long as the men wore a condom and agreed to live Internet streaming of their activities, which were viewed by paying subscribers. On his solo DVD commentary, Roth suggested Hostel fans should subscribe to the Big Sister website and watch the videos. The brothel closed in 2010 and the website is no longer active, but several videos from the place are easily accessible online for free, including Amateur Czech Babe - Hardline and Czech Out This Babe - Hardline.

[jessie]

The film continues two features from the original Hostel (2005) - all "clients" who have at least one establishing scene before they arrive at the torture factory end up being killed, and the young men and women who deliberately deliver victims to Elite Hunting are themselves murdered. In the former case, Todd is mauled to death by guard dogs after refusing to murder Whitney; after Stuart does kill Whitney, he is disarmed by Beth and presumably bleeds to death when she becomes a client and castrates/defenestrates him (death also befell the Dutch Surgeon, German client, and American Businessman in the original). In the latter case, Axelle is decapitated by Beth in the final scene; Axelle's fellow recruiters were deliberately run over by either Paxton or the thugs pursuing him (before they were killed by the Bubble Gum Gang) in the final part of the original.

[jamie]

Ruggero Deodato: (at around 1h 19 mins) the director of the controversial 1980 film Cannibal Holocaust (1980) has a brief cameo as a cannibal in the film.

[scarlett]

(at around 1h 22 mins) During a torture scene, Roger Bart says, "I'm fucking Hercules!" Roger played Young Hercules in the Disney film Hercules (1997).

[aaron]

In their 2007 review, Now Playing Podcast gave this movie two "Green Arrows" (aka two "recommends") - their highest rating at that time.

[sophie]

Heather Matarazzo had been sober for about a year when she arrived in Prague and attended a "get to know you" party prior to shooting. She claimed she was constantly offered pills by the producers to help her beat the jet lag and "get some sleep", but she repeatedly turned them down. She also alleged that when Bijou Phillips found out she was sober, she pushed her against a wall and choked her for 15 to 20 seconds and said, "I'm going to make you relapse on this film." Matarazzo said she was too embarrassed to tell the director or producers about the incident.

[michele]

Gabriel Roth: (at around 1h 5 mins) the film's associate producer makes cameo appearance as a head on a stick.