I saw Hell Fest and I have to say it was pretty disappointing overall. It had a few decent suspenseful moments (the scene with the stopped rail cart) but overall it was kind of a slog and I was ready for it to be over when it was.
The characters are pretty much all one dimensional. The killer has no motivation which isn't out of the ordinary for a slasher film so it leaves you not rooting for the college kids or the villain. I will say I was really looking to the blonde eccentric girl to get killed so I was definitely leaning on the killers side at points.
So whats the most fun part of a dumb slasher movie? The deaths. Problem is 3 out of the 5 are purely just simple stabs to the stomach. One of the boyfriend characters who's name I didn't learn got a syringe through the eye which will make you a little squeamish but nothing special and the awkward good guy character gets his head crushed by a giant bell mallet which was definitely the most interesting although a bit contrived with his head perfectly placed on the spot where the mechanism makes the bell rise to the top. Still kinda funny and I'm sure if you freeze frame on his head it'll look really terrible.
The blonde girl almost had a neat guillotine death but it fakes you out with it not actually cutting her head off but only slicing the back of her neck and he begins to wind it up again to try to behead her but through the killer's pure incompetence she somehow manages to free her neck, back, and both hands without the killer noticing what she was doing. I was actually pretty upset with this.
The ending face off between the two remaining girls and the killer were a little bit tense but there were plenty of little annoying things like one of them getting a jump on him and attacking but just giving up and running as soon as hes on the ground. There's also a scene where he butts her in the face with the blunt end of an ax but decides not to kill her for no reason. She manages to recover from this hit and somehow gets into an area where she can save her friend right before she's about to be killed. The cops finally arrive, the park staff finally cut the lights on to the place and he of course escapes with his stab wound.
The ending reveals that he goes home after his fun night out and it's revealed he has a daughter and..... yeah. I guess he's just a normal dad who enjoys going out and killing kids in his spare time so there's that.
I could maybe give this movie a 3 but definitely not more than that. (I changed it to a 3)
The characters are pretty much all one dimensional. The killer has no motivation which isn't out of the ordinary for a slasher film so it leaves you not rooting for the college kids or the villain. I will say I was really looking to the blonde eccentric girl to get killed so I was definitely leaning on the killers side at points.
So whats the most fun part of a dumb slasher movie? The deaths. Problem is 3 out of the 5 are purely just simple stabs to the stomach. One of the boyfriend characters who's name I didn't learn got a syringe through the eye which will make you a little squeamish but nothing special and the awkward good guy character gets his head crushed by a giant bell mallet which was definitely the most interesting although a bit contrived with his head perfectly placed on the spot where the mechanism makes the bell rise to the top. Still kinda funny and I'm sure if you freeze frame on his head it'll look really terrible.
The blonde girl almost had a neat guillotine death but it fakes you out with it not actually cutting her head off but only slicing the back of her neck and he begins to wind it up again to try to behead her but through the killer's pure incompetence she somehow manages to free her neck, back, and both hands without the killer noticing what she was doing. I was actually pretty upset with this.
The ending face off between the two remaining girls and the killer were a little bit tense but there were plenty of little annoying things like one of them getting a jump on him and attacking but just giving up and running as soon as hes on the ground. There's also a scene where he butts her in the face with the blunt end of an ax but decides not to kill her for no reason. She manages to recover from this hit and somehow gets into an area where she can save her friend right before she's about to be killed. The cops finally arrive, the park staff finally cut the lights on to the place and he of course escapes with his stab wound.
The ending reveals that he goes home after his fun night out and it's revealed he has a daughter and..... yeah. I guess he's just a normal dad who enjoys going out and killing kids in his spare time so there's that.
I could maybe give this movie a 3 but definitely not more than that. (I changed it to a 3)