Season in Hell (2004)

Pack: Tomb of Terrors
Disc: 8

Subgenre(s): Demonic, Torture

Year: 2004

Rated: R
Length: 66 minutes

Director: Elliot Passantino
Writer: Elliot Passantino
Starring: Kevin Healy, George Prekel, Carl Restivo

Synopsis: The East coast of the US has been besieged by apocalyptic terrorist attacks. Best friends Carl and George take flight toward Canada. Eventually running low on gas, they seek supplies at an eerily quiet farmhouse only to discover a solitary farmer named Marbas Hiram. Before long Carl and George discover that Marbas is actually the crazed overseer to a basement full of women, some who worship him as a deranged Messiah. As Carl and George attempt to free themselves and the women, they discover the farmhouse is actually the gateway to Hell and that even an escape may not stop them from losing their minds!

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Review: Season in Hell is simply one of the worst horror movies that I have ever seen. It's so badly edited together with too many bizarre effects and background audio which drowns out the actors' voices that it's virtually unwatchable.

Allegedly, Season in Hell is meant to be "a surreal psychedelic homage to the '70s era of horror films". In reality, it's just a mess with bad acting, lots of blood but only laughable effects for the gore, and the merest hint of a story which makes no sense anyway.

The torture scenes are uninspired, the kills are off camera, and the whole redneck psycho who kidnaps and tortures lost strangers has been done to death. Making him the Devil incarnate just makes the events more farcical.

In the right hands, this could have been a chilling psychological thriller set during the Apocalypse. Unfortunately, it's just a poor excuse for torture porn, and they just had to make it too arty-farty for its own good.

Some of the girls are nice to look at though.

Most Memorable Moment(s): The girls fighting each other at the end.

Originality: None.

Best Line(s): "Anyone smart would not be here after what we just went through."
Worst Line(s): "The blood is the life."

Best Effect(s): The various gashes and wounds.
Worst Effect(s): Carl's dismembered hands.

Goriness (out of 10): 6
Sexiness (out of 10): 5
Profanities (out of 10): 6

Hottest Actor/Actress: Naina Michaud as Sister Carrie.

Picture Quality: Average
Audio Quality: Below average (vocals on left channel, "music" on right)

Rating (out of 10): 1

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IMDb or Wiki: None

Final Thoughts: So the Devil is a hillbilly who tortures women in his basement? Who'd a thunk it?