Hostel II does not even approach the "most gruesome movie ever," my friend. For better or for worse, many films outshine it in the grisly department. Flicks like Inside, Irreversible, Martyrs, and even Contracted are infinitely more graphic and intense than Hostel II. That last scene where Beth rips the guys dick and balls right off is pretty awful, but imagine experiencing that level of brutality every few minutes? It's been done and if you look, you shall find. Not that I necessarily advise that.
The superior horror films have always been those capable of creating effective suspense and atmosphere to provoke scares rather than simply shock with an aggregation of nasty images. It's the scares - not jump scares, but heart-pounding, skin-crawling, nightmare-inducing scares - that separate the average horror flicks from the classics. Watch some dreck like Eden Lake and then watch the great film Them (Ils) and tell me which one made you check your house for intruders and which one didn't.
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