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.
Click here to order.
No comments:
Post a Comment