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Hell's Ground
DVD/APPROX. 78MINS/2007/PAKISTAN UNRATED
DVD/APPROX. 78MINS/2007/PAKISTAN UNRATED
6.5
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A group of Islamabad teenagers all decide to skip school and set off on a road trip to go and watch one of the heaviest guitar bands of all time.
Along their travels they decide to pull over to a side store to get something to eat, instead they’re warned by an old toothless man to not to take
any shortcuts through the forest. The group who is worried they won’t make it in time to the concert, decide to take the shortcut through the
forest, which can end up saving them a couple hours allowing them to get to the concert in time. Unfortunately for them, they encounter a bunch a
flesh eating zombies who are contaminated by the water supply, they put the pedal to the metal and get out alive. Sooner or later they begin to
experience more dramas along the rocky trail road, Khan notices the vans gas gauge is faulty and the van is running on petrol fumes, it’s not long
until the van comes to a complete stop. As the teenagers try to find a way out of the dense forest and back to civilianization, though unknowingly
their worst nightmare is just around the corner, when a family of flesh eating psychopaths begins to hunt them down one by one.
Hell's Grounds (Zibahkhana) is the very first gorefest horror flick to ever come out of Pakistan, which pays homage to a number of well known
western horror movies such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Zombie while dipping into a tad bit of the comic style cinema of Creepshow.
Hell's Ground is directed by filmmaker Omar Khan, who hasn’t got much of a past in filmmaking, but by the looks of Hell's Ground you, would
definitely think this B-grade filmmaker has shot a dozen or so movies already. It’s great to see filmmakers from time to time paying a bit of respect
to those memorable movies we all grew up loving, but then at times it can become rather annoying. I personally feel that when a B-grade
filmmaker has to go to the trouble of raising enough funds to shoot his movie, you would at least want to have an original screenplay. This is the
slight downfall for Omar Khan’s Hell’s Ground, it has the impact to keep any gorehound extremely satisfied right to the very end of the movie, but
when they use the same type of storyline as other horror movies just to cash in on a few extra votes, it kind of gets under my skin. I honestly can
think of several ways this filmmaker could of taken this film, without even to have use a theme of Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre of
even adding a scene that resembles Fulci Luci Zombie.
Now since I said that, Hell's Ground isn’t a total flop. I honestly enjoyed watching this movie with my brain turned off, the gore and blood splatter
was exactly what I wanted in a horror movie, and Hell’s Ground does live up to any gorehound’s expectations. You witness the slasher dressed in
a Burqa (clothing that women Muslims wear), the use of medieval weapons, peeling back flesh to the bone with a butcher knife, a zombie flesh
chomping close up scene and much, much more.
Hell’s Grounds has just released on DVD by our fellow sponsors TLA Releasing. Hell's Ground is certainly different to the western side of the
world, but for being the first blood splatter, goes film to ever come out of Pakistan gets a couple more kudos from me. But I honestly cant
recommend to many people to go straight out and buy it on DVD right away, so if you take your horror movies seriously, well I suggest you might
want to rent before you buy. Though if you are a die-hard fan of Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre well then this film is right down
your track.
Along their travels they decide to pull over to a side store to get something to eat, instead they’re warned by an old toothless man to not to take
any shortcuts through the forest. The group who is worried they won’t make it in time to the concert, decide to take the shortcut through the
forest, which can end up saving them a couple hours allowing them to get to the concert in time. Unfortunately for them, they encounter a bunch a
flesh eating zombies who are contaminated by the water supply, they put the pedal to the metal and get out alive. Sooner or later they begin to
experience more dramas along the rocky trail road, Khan notices the vans gas gauge is faulty and the van is running on petrol fumes, it’s not long
until the van comes to a complete stop. As the teenagers try to find a way out of the dense forest and back to civilianization, though unknowingly
their worst nightmare is just around the corner, when a family of flesh eating psychopaths begins to hunt them down one by one.
Hell's Grounds (Zibahkhana) is the very first gorefest horror flick to ever come out of Pakistan, which pays homage to a number of well known
western horror movies such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Zombie while dipping into a tad bit of the comic style cinema of Creepshow.
Hell's Ground is directed by filmmaker Omar Khan, who hasn’t got much of a past in filmmaking, but by the looks of Hell's Ground you, would
definitely think this B-grade filmmaker has shot a dozen or so movies already. It’s great to see filmmakers from time to time paying a bit of respect
to those memorable movies we all grew up loving, but then at times it can become rather annoying. I personally feel that when a B-grade
filmmaker has to go to the trouble of raising enough funds to shoot his movie, you would at least want to have an original screenplay. This is the
slight downfall for Omar Khan’s Hell’s Ground, it has the impact to keep any gorehound extremely satisfied right to the very end of the movie, but
when they use the same type of storyline as other horror movies just to cash in on a few extra votes, it kind of gets under my skin. I honestly can
think of several ways this filmmaker could of taken this film, without even to have use a theme of Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre of
even adding a scene that resembles Fulci Luci Zombie.
Now since I said that, Hell's Ground isn’t a total flop. I honestly enjoyed watching this movie with my brain turned off, the gore and blood splatter
was exactly what I wanted in a horror movie, and Hell’s Ground does live up to any gorehound’s expectations. You witness the slasher dressed in
a Burqa (clothing that women Muslims wear), the use of medieval weapons, peeling back flesh to the bone with a butcher knife, a zombie flesh
chomping close up scene and much, much more.
Hell’s Grounds has just released on DVD by our fellow sponsors TLA Releasing. Hell's Ground is certainly different to the western side of the
world, but for being the first blood splatter, goes film to ever come out of Pakistan gets a couple more kudos from me. But I honestly cant
recommend to many people to go straight out and buy it on DVD right away, so if you take your horror movies seriously, well I suggest you might
want to rent before you buy. Though if you are a die-hard fan of Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre well then this film is right down
your track.
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