Hostel, Part II [SOUNDTRACK] [IMPORT]

Nathan Barr

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 7, 2007)
• Original Release Date: July 17, 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack, Import
• Label: 101 DISTRIBUTION
• ASIN: B000RMC65I
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,214,394 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Suite ("Amid a Crowd of Stars")

2. Beautiful Skin

3. Train

4. Paxton Meets Sasha

5. Bidding War

6. Portrait

7. Montage

8. Kiss

9. Stuart

10. Boat Ride

11. Bath

12. Elevator

13. Escape

14. Todd

15. Turning Tables

16. Snip

17. Axelle

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Foreign Mystery, Horror, Intrigue, and Beauty, August 31, 2007

By	Dracula D (a haunted waxwork in Pa.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hostel: Part II (Audio CD)

An amazing score. Gets better with every listen. Orchestra score that definitely brings specific moods. Very beautiful at times and extremely dark at times. We're talking very scary here. If you're looking for feelings of intrigue, mystery, horror, isolation and claustrophia, impending doom, beauty...get this soundtrack. It even has a song on here that is not in the movie. Plus, great artwork in the cd from the movie and set!!

Get this cd now! I'm listening to it at work while I'm on the computer. Great stuff.

Great for cloudy days or fall days or any day!

4.0 out of 5 stars Gothic tour-de-force, August 29, 2008

By	Jon Broxton (Thousand Oaks, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hostel: Part II (Audio CD)

I have never fully appreciated, nor understood, the general public's lust for the new `torture porn' genre of films. I saw the first Saw, but none of its sequels. I saw Cabin Fever, and thoroughly disliked it. I have not seen any of the Hostel movies, and have no intention of doing so. Nevertheless, the box office takings don't lie, so here we have Hostel Part II, directed by Eli Roth, and starring Lauren German, Bijou Phillips and Heather Matarazzo as three young women who, over the course of 93 minutes, are systematically bound, gagged, tortured, murdered and mutilated by a succession of sick individuals who pay good money to Slovakian criminals to enable them to do this kind of thing. Wholesome fun for all the family. Composer Nathan Barr returns to the franchise after undertaking scoring duties on the first movie. Unexpectedly, the opening suite - "Amid a Crowd of Stars" - is a quite beautiful eastern European neo-classical lament anchored by a tragic-sounding combination of solo violin, solo oboe and harp which gradually swells to encompass the entire orchestra in a sweeping theme. It's a mesmerizing, completely astonishing beginning, and sets the tone for the rest of the score, which continues to inhabit the orchestral realm and oscillate between excellent action/horror writing and moments of surprisingly sublime beauty. Cues such as "Beautiful Skin", "Bidding War", the grotesquely mesmerizing "The Bath" and the exciting "Turning Tables" are distinctly Herrmannish in tone, with their skittery strings, whooping brasses and frenetic pacing. "Paxton Meets Sasha" goes for shock value with boo-gotcha stingers jumping out of beds of ominous, bass-heavy violin and cello writing. "Portrait" and "Elevator" go for the jugular with chaotic dissonance and immensely powerful and threatening piano chords which resonate in the deepest recesses of your stomach. "Montage" incorporates sinister and ghostly-sounding vocal effects. The beginning of "Stuart" sounds like something Krzysztof Penderecki might write in his darker moments. It's all quite superbly imaginative stuff, and really showcases Barr's talent for creating unnerving moods. One thing worth mentioning also is the almost total absence of any obvious `electronic enhancements' in Barr's score. The confidence he shows in writing simple, clean orchestral music is to be commended in this day and age. It's perhaps indicative of my own cinematic prejudices, but I find myself rather disappointed that music this excellent was written for a film this unpleasant - but irrespective of one's feelings about the film itself, Nathan Barr's score is a perfect example of modern, lyrical, orchestral horror movie music at its best.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hostel II - Sound Track disappointing, April 29, 2009

By	lnlemonlime "lnlemonlime" (marblehead, ma United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hostel: Part II (Audio CD)

I was extremely disappointed with this soundtrack. i saw some parts of the mocie (too gruesome for me!!) and I thought the movie music was wonderful, traditional music. I purchased the ST, because of the movie.

Well, the ST contians almost none of the traditional music featured in the film. The ST music is ok, but not what I was aiming for.