![]() Later that night, Axelle begins partying at the annual harvest festival with some presumed new victims when suddenly her handbag is jacked by the street children. ![]() She treats her wounds and allows her to lie down in bed long enough for two large men to arrive and allows her to be kidnapped. Axelle and Sasha rescue her and brings her back to a mansion owned by Sasha. She is approached by thugs and runs off being ambushed by the impoverished street children who begin beating her with sticks. Beth drifts off and falls asleep waking up hours later to an empty spa. ![]() The next day, they all relax in a hot bath at the spa believing Lorna must have spent the night with the Russian man since she never returned the night before. When Lorna runs off with a Russian guy, Axelle volunteers to stay behind and wait for her to return. The four of them arrive in Slovakia and go to the harvest festival. They allow her to bunk with them in their cabin and she invites them to join her to a spa in Slovakia. She is seen again on the overnight train in the bar buying Beth a drink and later on stopping a man on the train from robbing Lorna of her ipod. ![]() Whether she is genuinely lesbian or bisexual or is doing this as a way of enticing Beth to her death is open to interpretation. Axelle flirts heavily with Beth throughout the film. She introduces herself to Beth offering to buy one of her sketches off of her. Despite her outward courtesy and friendliness, Axelle in reality is a cold and ruthless woman who has no qualms about luring in innocent victims to be kidnapped and murdered by wealthy clients.Īxelle is first shown as a nude model that Beth, Whitney, and Lorna are sketching. She is a high-ranking member of Elite Hunting and Outfitting, answering directly to Sasha Rassimov. She is the one who orders Paxton's head to be collected after he killed her long time friends Natalya and Svetlana. It can be watched right now for free on Peacock, so we've gone back to this gory favorite and found some of the references, Easter Eggs, and behind-the-scenes facts you didn't know.Axelle is the main antagonist of " Hostel Part II". It remains a defining horror movie of the 2000s, and despite a varied subsequent filmography, it's still the movie that Roth is best known for. Just mention "the eye scene" or "the ankle bit" to many horror fans and they will know exactly what you mean, even if they haven't watched the movie in years. Roth skillfully builds tension and delivers the gore with glee. ![]() While Hostel wasn't exactly met with rave reviews, its combination of dark satire, nightmarish survival horror, and over-the-top splatter was highly effective. But soon after arriving they are kidnapped by a sinister underground organisation that allows rich businessmen to torture and kill for high prices. Roth's movie focused on a trio of young backpackers-two American, one Icelandic-who head to Slovakia in search of good time with the local girls they have been told about. Hostel was the film that the "torture-porn" label was first applied to, in David Edelstein's New York Magazine article "Now Playing at Your Local Multiplex: Torture Porn." Despite this-or more likely, because of it-Hostel was a big hit when it arrived in theaters in January 2006. While the Saw movies were the most successful horror films to emerge at this time, it was Eli Roth's Hostel that best defines this era of gory movie-making. This was a label that many filmmakers and fans hated, but nevertheless indicated a focus on nastier and more violent types of horror than what audiences had been enjoying in the previous decade. A sub-genre emerged that was given the name "torture-porn". If American horror in the '90s was defined by the slick, commercial thrills of Scream and the films it influenced, then the genre took a darker turn in the 2000s. ![]()
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