Hell Fest

"Fun going in. Hell getting out."

Director: Gregory Plotkin Year: 2018 Runtime: 89 min IMDb: ⭐ 5.7
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Synopsis

On Halloween night at a horror theme park, a costumed killer begins slaying innocent patrons who believe that it's all part of the festivities.

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Summary adapted from TMDb and Wikipedia sources.

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Content Warnings

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an animal dies
spoiler There are no animals in this movie
there's a dead animal
spoiler There’s a scene where two characters are walking through a maze. It’s set up like a butcher shop sorta? Some of it has skinned animals and people that are dead (possibly actors). It’s quite a gruesome scene.
there are spiders
spoiler Large fake prop spiders are used in the haunted house areas and a jump scare
there are bugs
spoiler Multiple incidents of fly buzzing noises, fake spider
there's child abuse
spoiler ***SPOILER*** To add onto the comment above mine,yeah no child is abused in the movie. But the killer does come home to their daughter at the end. And it also shows that they keep things from people they kill. All of that can be triggering for some.
a woman is brutalized for spectacle
Yes
someone gets gaslighted
spoiler Characters try to report the killer to park staff but given the extreme nature of the park the staff think they're overreacting. It's not gaslighting but may still be uncomfortable
someone is stalked
spoiler Stalking makes up a major part of the plot, as a masked man follows the main characters around for the entire film
there's addiction
spoiler References to an overdose including an actor pretending to be dead in one of the sections of the horror park.
alcohol abuse
spoiler No alcohol abuse but there is a lot of liquor present
someone uses drugs
spoiler no one actually uses drugs but one of the fake bodies in the haunted house is a drug overdose
sexual assault on men is a joke
Yes
someone is restrained
spoiler A character is also restrained in a guillotine
a woman gets slapped
Yes
someone's mouth is covered
Yes
there's eye mutilation
spoiler The eye is punctured by a syringe.
there's excessive gore
Yes
there's torture
spoiler one character is strapped into a prop guillotine and cut multiple times while awake, she escapes though. all of the other deaths can be seen as torturous as well. the final girls are also subjected to being chased by the killer through a horror maze, with the killer attacking and stalking them.
there's body horror
Yes
heads get squashed
spoiler a character is killed with an oversized mallet used for a strength test carnival game.
there's decapitation
spoiler There’s a fake out but it doesn’t actually happen
there are hangings
spoiler In the opening scene a girl is hung from the ceiling after being stabbed
someone's throat is mutilated
Yes
there's shaving/cutting
spoiler Not self-inflicted cutting and no shaving. But several people are stabbed and knives are common
someone is crushed to death
Yes
there's amputation
spoiler But one character is nearly decapitated, and many props in the horror mazes feature amputations
someone struggles to breathe
spoiler A character is hit in the throat and is seen struggling to breathe afterwards
someone breaks a bone
spoiler You hear ribs cracking when a guy is hit with a huge wooden hammer
somebody is choked
Yes
someone is stabbed
Yes
Someone becomes unconscious
Yes
a major character dies
Yes
someone dies
Yes
someone overdoses
spoiler However, one of the scares in a haunt looks like someone OD-ed intravenously.
A child's dear toy is destroyed
spoiler There are multiple stuffed animals, some get thrown but not destroyed.
someone cheats
spoiler There is actually a very cute relationship developing and two other solid-seeming relationships in the group. Up until the killing starts. Then things are less cute.
there are jump scares
Yes
there are clowns
spoiler There are three clowns only for a couple of minutes, the clowns don't hurt anyone
there's ghosts
Yes
there are mannequins
spoiler Part of one of the mazes, there’s several dummy figures in masks
someone vomits
spoiler A scare actor "vomits" on a character.
There's audio gore
Yes
someone defecates
spoiler No, but we do see a girl use the bathroom
there's spitting
spoiler Someone coughs up blood after being hit with a huge hammer
needles/syringes are used
spoiler The syringe is not used to inject drugs, instead syringe imagery is used for delivering alcohol shots in one scene, used as a prop implying a mannequin had been stabbed with a syringe, and used as a murder weapon to puncture an eye in another scene.
there's a mental institution scene
spoiler One themed haunted area resembles a school but that's the closest the movie comes to it.
there's a hospital scene
spoiler There are several themed mazes throughout the film. One of them is hospital-themed.
there's a claustrophobic scene
spoiler There are scenes where victims are trapped in tight confinement/spaces while the killer approaches them, which can trigger feelings of claustrophobia. Several of these scenes happen in very dark spaces, which can add to an enclosed perspective.
someone has an anxiety attack
spoiler Genre-typical panicking/hyperventilating/sobbing which could be upsetting to those sensitive to depictions of anxiety attacks.
someone has a meltdown
spoiler In a manner of speaking, yes. There is a lot of panicking
shaky cam is used
Yes
there's flashing lights or images
spoiler Several scenes are set in a haunted house
there's screaming
Yes
there is obscene language/gestures
spoiler Some swearing and one character flips off another
there are sudden loud noises
Yes
a baby cries
spoiler In the doll/baby room in the hell maze, a track loop of a baby crying and laughing is playing. It's distorted to be spooky so it didn't trigger the response in me personally
someone is watched without knowing
Yes
there are homophobic slurs
spoiler There’s no homophobic slurs in the movie. They ask to touch their beard. That’s it.
someone is misgendered
spoiler No one is misgendered in the movie. To give more context to the comment above,here’s this. **SPOILER** Two characters were walking through a maze together and they were trying to figure out who were actors and who were mannequins. I say that since the scene is dark and there is a lot of people in it. But they are solely looking at their hands. That’s why they call them neutral. They couldn’t tell in the dark who is male or female. So they called them neutral. I personally didn’t find it offensive.
there are "Man in a dress" jokes
spoiler But bearded lady trope as part of horror maze
there's ableist language or behavior
Yes
an LGBT person dies
spoiler yes taylor was fruity as hell
the black guy dies first
spoiler There's a tense moment where the audience is led to believe that the only black character will die first but the moment passes.
there's demons or Hell
spoiler Depictions of hell in the haunted attractions
there is sexual content
spoiler No explicit sexual content or nudity, although significant sexual references / gestures and a fairly steamy clothed scene in a photo booth.
someone is sexually objectified
spoiler A character sexualizes a scare actor.
a male character is ridiculed for crying
spoiler They laugh at each other for being scared
the ending is sad
Yes
a person is hit by a car
spoiler But as part of a horror maze two characters are nearly hit by a fake train
a car honks or tires screech
Yes
there's blood/gore
Yes
someone drowns
spoiler One themed maze makes it appear that the participants are underwater using colored lights and smoke machines. Nobody is distressed by this but it may still be upsetting.

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