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Well, we've had to wait 4 years to get a sequel to one of the most ambitious mainstream GIMP films in recent memory, the modern-day classic Hostel: Part 2. Whatever your feelings on how successful Eli Roth's film was in satisfying your GIMP sensibilities, you have to admit it was a huge step in the right direction as far as making tied-up women the focal point in a horror film that was designed to play in theaters to a wide audience. Unfortunately, the wide audience never materialized; the film was a box office disappointment. After the first Hostel was a huge success by featuring men tied up and tortured and the sequel featuring women as victims...not so much...which direction would you go if you were in charge of producing Part 3? If you're thinking sausage-fest, congratulations, you can screw up a good thing just as well as these brainless filmmakers did!
This is not to say that Hostel: Part III is total zero as far as giving us GIMP-worthy action, but for the most part, it's a big tease and a film full of missed opportunities. It's mainly a film about men who are captured, tied down and have horribly torturous things done to them. But that doesn't stop the filmmakers from casting some incredibly beautiful women and then in nearly every situation wasting a chance to do something bad to them.
For instance, check out sexy blonde Anka, played by Evelina Oboza.
In the first 5 minutes, she's shown briefly nude, then taken away by the bad guys, who zap her a few times with an electric prod to keep her in line as she's led away to what will likely be an exciting and torture-filled experience. Except we never see what becomes of her. The filmmakers apparently didn't think that was important enough to show us.
And then there's Amy, wife of the main character, played by Kelly Thiebaud. Absolutely stunning woman. What happens to her? Nothing.
Then to tease us further, there's this topless waitress (Cassie Keller) who is seen 3 or 4 times and exists only to supply us with bountiful eye candy. My goodness, this woman is jaw-droppingly hot. She's a minor character so I didn't expect any GIMPage from her, but if I were casting the movie, she would be the star and I would make damn sure she got the treatment.
Okay, continuing on, we have Kendra, played by the beautiful Sarah Habel. She is the main female lead and gets involved with the men who are being tortured and killed as sport by the sadistic club members. What happens to her? She gets locked in a cage. Ho hum. Oh, and at the end, she gets shot as she's trying to escape with the men. Ho hum again. Starting to sense a pattern here?
One more chance. Her friend is Nikki, played by Zulay Henao. And she represents the only GIMP-worthy scene of the entire film, albeit quite short, lasting just a total of 3 and a half minutes.
However, I think it's a very good scene. We don't see any kind of capture, but when we do see her, she's already been strapped down to a gurney (fully clothed) and is tightly gagged with a ballgag. Very nice to see that ballgags are becoming more and more popular in mainstream films. The bad guy picks out a cheerleader outfit for her to wear while she makes some wonderful squeals through her gag.
When we see her next, she's wearing the cheerleader outfit and she's now bound in a mostly vertical position to a large metal table. Still wearing the ballgag, she looks quite nice. The villain removes her gag and squirts a bottle of some sort of solution into her mouth and down her cleavage, talking to her in Russian about what he's doing. She clearly can't understand him, so he switches briefly to English, telling her "Nice and sweet, like you".
Then he shows her a large glass aquarium filled with some huge, scary-looking cockroaches. He picks one up and taunts the screaming, struggling girl by bringing it close to her. Then he returns to the aquarium, scoops up a large container of the nasty creatures, and flips the table down to a horizontal position.
All it takes now is for him to dump the container over top of her, and they swarm over her, concentrating on her wide open mouth. In they go, and there's this ridiculous angle shown from inside her mouth as the cockroaches scurry down her throat and she chokes to death. It's a squeamish scene, to be sure, but the actual cockroach segment is very brief, so it's not as bad as you might think. What I liked was all the lovely suspense and squirming the pretty victim did before her ultimate denouement.
But here's a question. You've got a sexy cheerleader strapped down to a table, is dumping bugs on her the best thing you can come up with to do to her? Really? And of course, when it comes to showing us the men being tortured, they linger over those scenes. Comparatively, the one female scene goes by in a flash. It's thrown in, apparently, just to pacify the fans of the second film. Because good heavens, everybody knows the real reason everybody else watches these movies is to see dudes in distress, right?
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