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Just over a year ago, when I spoke to Eli Roth for Bizarre regarding the first Hostel, he talked about his love for graphic 1970s Italian horror films and about how much he admired their excesses. Those films were clearly a major inspiration for the sequel.

From the start, it feels and almost looks like one of them, with a much rougher style than most contemporary American horrors, and when we eventually get to the first big gore sequence, Roth’s influences are blindingly obvious – it’s an amazingly brutal scene, unbelievably excessive and outlandish, and without giving too much away, I will say that it features about as much blood as I’ve ever seen on screen.