Tuesday, September 29, 2015

HELLHOLE: WEAK, EVEN FOR THE TIMES



With the rising fan base in the genre of horror films it was inevitable that along with the good there would be bad movies made. For the most part the horror genre of the late seventies and early eighties leveled off in the good to mediocre level. But on occasion a movie came along that was so bad all you could do was sit and watch and wonder how anyone could be given the money to make a movie this bad. HELLHOLE is a prime example of that.

HELLHOLE opens with a woman murdered in her home by a psychopathic hitman (Ray Sharkey) looking for some documents she has on hand. Her daughter (Judy Landers) witnesses the murder but escapes the killer. The documents being sought were from a doctor her mother worked for that would have destroyed his career. Landers suffers intense amnesia from the incident and this same doctor sends her to an asylum for help so he can keep an eye on her.

The usual problems ensue with terrible help working at the asylum and Sharkey turning up trying to discover what Landers knows so he can find the documents. This asylum is one that always seems convenient for exploitation films as most of the time the female inmates spend taking showers or in various forms of undress. Apparently security and hiring proper staff is not something this institution is interested in. It is interested in strange techniques to explore and the main doctor there (Mary Woronov) experiments on patients she deems unfit to stay with the group.

I could go on to tell you about the young orderly who dresses like he stepped out of a MIAMI VICE shoot rather than in the normal orderly uniform but that would make it seem a tad more interesting. In fact this movie is so terrible it doesn’t even qualify for the usual “so bad it’s good” standard that many bad movies end up in. Even playing as background noise this movie is not worth the time or money. It would even be a chore to watch if they paid you to do so.
 
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