Bijou Phillips

Three American college students studying abroad are lured to a Slovakian hostel and discover the grim reality behind it. Three female college students take a detour from their partying, enticed by a beautiful European woman who promises seclusion, safety, and maybe even romance. What they get is a living hell in which they are sold to the highest bidder, whose fondest wish is to kill them slowly. Hostel 2 also follows two American men who are willing to pay to join an exclusive club where a life will end at their hands--any way they like. It's a story of human monsters and the almighty dollar as only Eli Roth could tell it. —Paul Nomad of Dreadcentral.com Three pretty college students are tricked into entering a hostel where the 'hosts' like to torture, rape, and murder. Following a geographical tour of Slovakia, three women are lured into a hostel by a seductive young woman who sells them to the twisted masters, who tie them up and bring upon an unthinkable world of pain. Three young college students enter a hostel in Slovakia on the behest of a beautiful Eastern European woman. However, following a festival in the small village in which they are staying, the woman are turned over to a group that allows the highest bidder to kill. —Anonymous Rome, Italy. Lured into a deadly trap by the offer of an unforgettable weekend at a luxurious spa in Slovakia, American art students Beth, Whitney, and Lorna join their statuesque model friend Axelle on a trip to Eastern Europe. Instead, in the aftermath of the horrors of Hostel (2005), the unsuspecting companions will soon fall prey to the sick desires of the privileged few who can pay big money to inflict pain on others. And now, sold off to the highest bidder, the captives' nightmare begins. But how much is a human life worth? —Nick Riganas

A group of teenagers fear for their lives in the swamps of Louisiana, chased by Mr. Jangles, a man possessed by 13 evil souls, and now relentless in his pursuit of new victims. SPOILER: Eric and his Yankee teenage mates travel South by motorbike to a swampy backwater town in Louisiana, where Sean's father Ray lived, the local tow truck driver, who abandoned the then baby-boy and his mother. Ray recently died, while trying to rescue a voodoo witch and at her urging her trunk, which got opened and released the poisonous serpents possessed by the souls of truly evil sinners she trapped in them. Ray was bitten and possessed as the car sunk, and shortly after it's dragged out rises as an 'undead' zombie, who murders without provocation and is immune to lethal weapons. He soon finds the teens' trace and proves his indiscriminately evil blood-thirst by charging his only offspring equally lethally. However they were warned by Eden's friend Cece, the witch's granddaughter, who explained the situation in her home and assures them when the zombie attacks it's safe thanks to a 'blessed' spell preventing evil from entering; alas the chain- and crowbar-waving undead finds a way round that: drag them out of it and make it fall apart. After the boys prove too brave and loyal for their own good, only Eden escapes alive, and the battle-site is moved to the tomb where the voodoo evil resides in a sarcophagus for their fight to the (un)death while she sort of learns enough voodoo by trial and error... —KGF Vissers When a voodoo witch has a car accident over a bridge in Louisiana, the rejected tow trucker driver Ray rescues her from the overhang car. She begs him to get her suitcase, which she had just dug from the cemetery, from the backseat of the car. When Ray returns to get the object, many snakes are released from the suitcase, bite him and the car falls in the swamp with him. When the police retrieve the car, his body is completely bitten and deformed. In the morgue, Ray becomes an undead murdering the coroner, a police officer and two teenagers later. The teenager Eden decides to pay a visit Cece, the granddaughter of the voodoo priestess, with her friends trying to find an explanation, and they are advised to leave the place, since Ray is possessed by the souls of the most despicable villains milked by her grandmother from sinners. While Ray is trying to reap more souls, the group has only the protection of the spelled house and a charm. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil After town freak Ray Sawyer is killed in a freak accident involving voodoo related material, local teens' bodies soon start piling up. A few of the teens decide to visit a friend's house in the swamps of Louisiana to find out if she knows what's going on, but soon realize that Ray is possessed by 13 evil souls and worse, Ray chases them armed with a crowbar. With only voodoo protecting them, the teens must escape his clutches or become his next victims. —MovieFan998

A writer's young assistant becomes both pawn and catalyst in his boss's disintegrating household. Alternately tragic and comic, an exploration of the complexities of love in both its brightest and darkest corners. Adapted from John Irving's best-selling novel A Widow for One Year, the film is set in the privileged beach community of East Hampton, New York and chronicles one pivotal summer in the lives of famous children's book author Ted Cole (Jeff Bridges) and his beautiful wife Marion (Kim Basinger). Their once-great marriage has been strained by tragedy. Her resulting despondency and his subsequent infidelities have prevented the couple from confronting a much-needed change in their relationship. Eddie O'Hare, the young man Ted hires to work as his summer assistant, is the couple's unwitting yet willing pawn - and, ultimately, the catalyst in the transformation of their lives. —Anonymous