Hell’s Ground DVD Review
Hell’s Ground is the story of 5 Pakistani teenagers that lie to their parents so they can take a road trip to a concert. Along the way, they take a wrong turn at a tea stand that sells the Pakistani version of pot brownies, whose proprietor favors Christopher Lee’s version of Dracula, much to the bemusement of OJ one of the wayward teens. He warns that the teens are entering Hell’s Ground, which is scary to about half of them. Their trip into Hell’s Ground crosses them with flesh-hungry bumpkins, zombies and the most horrifying thing, a cross-dresser!
I don’t know whether to think this movie was really bad, or if it just illustrates the difference in values that Pakistanis and Americans have. *SPOILER ALERT* I mean, the main villain is a man that was raised as a girl or at least forced to wear a burqa. His choice of clothing is treated with the same horror as Leatherface’s choice in facial wear. It just seemed a bit ridiculous to me.
I don’t really know why zombies were in this movie except that it made one of the main characters a bad guy in the end. The whole film is basically the Pakistani version of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which is cool, but for no reason they threw in zombies without an ounce of explanation. The zombies looked pretty good, though, it was fairly low budget, but decent enough.
I’ve never seen any other Pakistani films, so it could be on par with the mainstream, but I highly doubt it. It’s a pretty low budget flick with not much to it. For some reason they insist on using this fish-eye lens a whole lot through the beginning that just throws the whole picture askew. That is also the portion of the movie where the soundtrack sounded like it was recorded through a tin can.
Hell’s Ground struck me as being pretty goofy on the whole. The best reason to watch would be the use of a little person zombie that attacks through one van window and is ejected out of another. I could see a bunch of friends yucking it up with a few beers and enjoying the hell out of Hell’s Ground, but otherwise it was just pretty bad.
“I could see a bunch of friends yucking it up with a few beers and enjoying the hell out of Hell’s Ground, but otherwise it was just pretty bad.”
This is exactly what we did, and yes, this movie was awesomely bad on almost every level.
Glad to hear it!