Hostel: Part III (2011)
5/10
Scott Spiegel
88 minutes
Kip Pardue,
John Hensley,
Skyler Stone,
Chris Coy,
Thomas Kretschmann,
Sarah Habel
This is simply a poor excuse of a Hostel movie. The deaths were unimaginative and tame, there's barely any gore at all, and the ending is just completely ridiculous. Aside from the fact that it managed to somehow keep my attention the entire time, it's an otherwise waste of a sequel. Fans of the series will surely be disappointed in this obvious cash-in.
The first Hostel was a movie I surprisingly enjoyed. It was gory, creative, and ballsy for a theatrical release. I admired Eli Roth’s attempt to (along with Saw) bring forth a very dark and incredibly gory approach to death in mainstream horror. The sequel was a disappointment for me, as it was simply more of the same, but at least the 
gore was amped up and we were given a little backstory on the society that runs these torture chambers. Now, four years later, we’re given a low-grade straight-to-DVD sequel that’s nothing more than an obvious cash-in on the Hostel name.
Eli Roth takes a step back and lets his friend Scott Spiegel (Intruder, From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money) take the reigns, which I wasn’t entirely against since the last two horror fares from Spiegel offered some clever camera tricks that I had hoped to see him revisit with this sequel. Sadly that’s not the case here, as aside from a lot of gratuitous shots of 
the camera following someone’s ass (for whatever reason), it’s all a pretty straight forward directorial effort.
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