La Petite Mort II

I found every aspect of this ill-conceived "sequel" to be inferior to the original. And the first one was no great shakes.

One knock I had against La Petite Mort 1 was that there was no story. But something transpired... I guess. Part 2 has no story whatsoever. It's done in the form of a promotional DVD(!), to gather potential clients, and give an idea of what kind of shenanigans they're up to there. Oooh, behind-the-scenes footage is included as a bonus! I recommend just watching the original if you want to find out (or better still, watch Hostel), as it's just a carbon copy of the paying customer's scene with the burnt-up face in part 1 (which itself is a carbon copy of Hostel)... done for 83 minutes! Honestly, I could've eaten a box of Alpha Bits, and crapped a better idea for a follow-up.

In part 1, the Madame and her daughter flee to another country, leaving a trail of carnage behind. So... this filmmaker's idea of a joke (presumably), is that the Madame sold the very same dump to an extremely pompous and self-indulgent (at least that's the way his never-ending scenes play out), gender-confused man, who utilizes it for the EXACT SAME PURPOSE. It's even got the same sign outside! One would assume Germany has police, government officials, detectives? Do I even need to say more? This premise is complete and utter nonsense. Why not put an "Under new management" sign outside? It's no less ludicrous than everything else they're feeding me, and I'd at least get a laugh out of it.

Ok, so who cares about any of this, right? You came for the gore. Let me tell you, this travesty gave me a whole new respect for Olaf Ittenbach. Effects here are handled by uber-hack Ryan Nicholson. They are primarily sub-par AND transparent! Obviously Unearthed has all the faith in the world in him. Seemingly half their catalog carries his name, and this is just my own personal opinion, but I defy you to find a single redeeming quality in any of his movies (er, at least of all I've seen... I'm not a freaking masochist). Pay attention to his dialogue, if possible. Hey, more power to him. Keep churning out turds, someone out there is buying them.

I've gone well off track, but ultimately I found La Petite Mort 2 to be one of the most unnecessary sequels I've ever seen. It's got mostly ineffective torture scenes (after torture scene, after torture scene...), interspersed with people doing nothing, saying nothing... and you're not invested or interested in any of them, because there's zero story or character development! I could not say "hard pass" any harder. Nothing in this film made me squirm, cringe, or feel slightly uncomfortable. And part 1 DID.

And we do enter the house of La Petite Mort again. But this time it's not actually a story but it's edited like it should be a mockumentary. In the beginning it do works when the girls are looking straight into the camera and are inviting you to watch them, torturing people for money. So it's clear that this is a typical German torture porn. Even as the genre is over and done still Germany is going on with the genre.

Seen the first one I do know that the director Marcem Waltz isn't afraid to show gore and nudity. And that's exactly what we do get here. on part of the story there isn't really any well maybe the one about Monsieur Matheo Maximè (Mika Metz) who has difficulties with his body. Toward the end of the flick his problem will be solved somehow.

From the beginning you know that this flick is full of girls in latex and sexy outfits. I must say that Micaela Schäfer (Jade Maxime) really has a beautiful pair, hope they are the real stuff for her. She do walk around constantly bear breasted. Only one victim (a girl) is seen full frontal so some may be shocked by seeing it and seeing what they are doing to her.

The flick itself is in fact what the title says, a compilation of nasty tapes. Some do work rather good but some are boring like for example the electrocution which is full of editing on some stupid techno music. It just takes too long. But overall the torture do work and it's indeed gory as hell here and there.

It works on part of the effects but it's the story they are trying to tell that doesn't work. And it doesn't need a story at all. I can say if you are not used to watch torture porn that this one surely will make you to turn away here and there. Can't really say that it is a excellent flick due some parts mentioned but it surely is worth picking up.

Gore 3/5 Nudity 1/5 Effects 3?5/5 Story 2,5/5 Comedy 0/5