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Happy Halloween this week from your friends at Horror Movie Weekly, One Badass Horror Podcast! In Episode 061, your three late-night Horror hosts, Jay of the Dead, BillChete, and Lady Phantom bring you their Feature Review of Hell Fest (2018). We hope you’ll join us for some enjoyable Horror podcast listening and a great purchase-worthy Horror film to watch on Halloween. Also, don’t forget to call and leave us a voicemail: (801) 215-9704. Thanks for listening!
Note: This episode was recorded on October 4, 2020, and released on October 25, 2020 (the seven-year anniversary of the launch of The Weekly Horror Movie Podcast, which Jay of the Dead began with BillChete on the Horror Palace Network).
This show is a weekly horror movie podcast in which your late-night Horror hosts Jay of the Dead, BillChete and Lady Phantom bring you one recent Horror movie review every Sunday. (We’re defining “recent” as any Horror movie released within the last five years.) And we always reveal next week’s pick at the end of every show, so you can watch along with us and be prepared for the following episode. Join us, and thanks for listening!
SHOW NOTES:
Introduction
– Halloween 2020 plans
– Surprising and disappointing insights about 4K movies
— BillChete’s pick for this week: Hell Fest (2018)
[ 00:16:00 ] – Hell Fest (2018) — Genre Classification: Horror / Slasher / Mystery
Premise:
It’s Halloween night. A group of friends attend a Horror-themed amusement park — a haunted house extravaganza known as “Hell Fest.” But one of the masked creepers is a genuine serial killer…
Ratings and Recommendations: Hell Fest (2018)
Jay of the Dead = 7.5 ( Buy it! )
BillChete = 7.5 ( Buy it! )
Lady Phantom = 9 ( Buy it in 4K! )
Next on Episode 062: Pet Sematary (2019) — Lady Phantom’s pick!
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Great movie!
Guys, check out, ‘Host’ (2020).
New genre–Lockdown/Quarantine horror, Zoom footage horror
Maybe best watched in a dark room on your laptop with your headphones on.
We did, Nick. Very good special effects, but that’s pretty much it. The whole concept of a zoom seiance turns me off.
I liked Host too! It had a short run time but really packed in the scares. It was also the first piece of media that I have seen so far that lives in our time. I loved seeing modern culture creeping in with the Zoom Meeting aspect, mask wearing, and heckling of coughers and such. I didn’t know what Zoom was a few months ago, and look at the world now! I thought this was pretty clever.
We’ll have to wait for the upcoming episode for ‘Host’ from these guys, Libby, but I’m right in line with your positive thinking! This is a great example of contemporary horror, putting the current reality right in our face!
Yyyyyeahhh I don’t think we’ll be covering that. But hey, you never know.
When I started Hell Fire, I was a little apprehensive at the look of it right off the bat… I was like, Bill, what have you gotten me into, buddy?? I’m not sure if I even made it through the opening sequence before deciding he had lost all clout, and was kind of excited for you all to hate on this movie in your review! Then as my confusion mounted I decided to check my notes, and realized that I had found, and was watching, the wrong movie entirely! It was funny to me since you were talking about confusion with the titles Hell Fest, and Blood Fest. Soooooo, full clout restored! Ha. And silly me.
Hell Fest, by contrast, was a fun ride right from the start! I wish I could have gone to a place like that when I was a teenager- Minus the murder, of course! I enjoyed the pacing of this movie, and liked the cool lighting throughout. A lot of horror movies rely on such dark sets and scenes, and maybe a little vagary, to accomplish scares where I thought this one had the more unusual benefit of colorful stage lighting for their “in-house” scenes. So you ended up with this colorfully lit little terror fest (probably the title of another horror movie!). This serial killer found the perfect place to do his bidding, hiding in plain sight, and with one of the scariest masks in recent mask making movie times! I totally enjoyed this one, also missing it completely when it came out. so thank you for your pick, and review.