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A guy who calls himself Dracula (Eric Roberts) hosts a Halloween reality TV show where 6 contestants are locked into a house for 24 hours straight and with no option of getting out earlier, and whoever survives gets $100,000 in cash - sounds easy enough, right? Even if the sextet of youngsters is rather heterogenous, ranging from gun-carrying cowboy Toby (Paul Stanko) to nerdy Johnny (Evan Bittencourt) to hip hop filmmaker Mr Jones (Sebastien Charmant), from Russian stripper Gothia (Lola Klimenteva) to everybody's darling Jessy (Elizabeth Peterson) to Mexican nurse Rose (Christina Trevizo), and the location is spooky in a hokey way, it should be no problem living through that. But Johnny is soon to sense something's wrong that seems to be emmanating from a butt-ugly statue of a demon - and yet, even if he has brought instruments to prove demonic presence, nobody believes him something actually is wrong - until the demon who actually lives in the statue and can appear and disappear at will, starts killing our little crew one by one, and even if our heroes plead with Dracula to let them out early, he insists a contract is a contract - and is actually making tons of money off people betting who's to live and who's to die (and who's to die first) on the show, making our youngsters more and more victims of their own greed ...

Halloween Hell is filmmaker Ed Hunt's first movie in over 25 years - and to an extent, it still breathes the flair of low budget indie horror flicks of old: It's hokey, it's a tad formulaic, it's at times pretty brutal and gory, it's blunt in its approach to horror, at the same time it doesn't take itself too seriously ... and all of this works for the movie, making this a fun throwback to yesteryear's genre cinema, yet with a satirical edge that's very much rooted in the now. And need I even say it? Eric Roberts delivers another scene-stealing performance, quite obviously enjoying himself playing a hammy Dracula actor.

A fun movie, really.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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