There's nothing wrong with reading a gay subtext, I don't think. Obviously I can't say whether it was deliberate on the filmmaker's part, but there is something concrete between those two. I mean, two bros would have to be pretty tight for one to convince the other to go kill ladies with him as like a super-special bonding experience thing. ("What's straighter than hunting chicks? Am I right, bro? Hold hands with me.") If it isn't homosexual, it's at least homosocial.
I also agree that Whoozit is seriously sex, in that sociopathic "I'm a Nice Guy but I'm secretly planning to disembowel you" way. In fact, I left the TV trained on 'Hostel II' because I knew I recognized (and liked) that actor from somewhere. Aha! Pretty sure he was the Nebbish, Secretly-a-Murderer Boyfriend on 'Desperate Housewives,' which is hot in the same mode as Dexter, or maybe like James Nesbitt in 'Jekyll.'
Wow! I just creeped myself out! (I'm pretty sure that it's a "Creature of the Night" thing, the way vampires and werewolves and Hellboy are kind of sexily threatening, and not that I'm into sociopaths and serial killers, because I'm not. I don't think.)
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