Hostel part 2

1 What you find interesting about the representations of men and women in Hostel 2?

In hostel part 2 i find it interesting and different how the two different genders are represented. At the beginning most characters follow the gender stereotypes as the women are up to be sold to be slaughtered but also it is mainly men bidding on them. However it goes against audience expectation as once again, the same as in the original Hostel the people who lour the people there is a female. I found Hostel part 2 interesting as for the 1st time it showed a female killer who tortured someone not men as usual. This is different as it shows the women as the killer and the dominant one but also she is killing another female. In most horror films it is the girl who is fliratious, sexual active, drinks alcohol, smoke, does drugs and a little tarty who die first, however in Hostel part 2 it is surprisingly a girl who is very innocent and only has a couple of drinks who is killed first. She is abductive by a man who leads her on a boat and accross the river.At the ending of the film when Beth is in the chamber and Stuart is torturing her, i think this shows in some films they represent women as manipulative and seductive and in this film she uses all this to her advantage. However i think the twist at the end twists the representation of women and men as she clamps his symbol of man hood off resulting in death but it shows the other side of women that you don't often see in film.


I think personally that the first Hostel showed the role reversal of different genders more than in part 2, as the people who trapped and persuaded the people to go to certain places in the originally Hostel were all female. However in Hostel part 2 it shows a female as a killer not only men. This is interesting as most films especially horrors show women as the victims rather than the killer or the stronger person.