Hellfest Movie Review

Trailer here.

Hellfest is a 2018 horror movie directed by Gregory Plotkin and starring Amy Forsyth, Reign Edwards and Tony Todd.

The movie begins with a girl who gets separated from her pals in a Halloween haunted house. A figure approaches her and kills her. Cut to a group of friends who are attending a Halloween event called Hellfest. They are Natalie(Forsyth), Brooke(Edwards), Taylor(Bex Taylor-Klaus), Quinn(Christian James), Asher(Matt Mercurio) and Gavin(Roby Attal). They talk about a girl who got murdered at Hellfest. A strange man enters Hellfest also. He puts on a mask to hide his face. I wonder why?? He bumps into a bitchy girl who annoys him. He grabs a knife and follows her. The friends wander through the different areas. They meet the bitchy girl, who informs them that she is being chased. They think that it is part of the show and ignore it. The guy kills the girl in front of Natalie. She realises that it is not part of the show and she runs off to tell the others. The killer has his eye on her as his next victim. He begins to follow her.

The others are not so sure that it was real. They are in the party mood, so they think that everything at Hellfest is part of the show until Brooke sees the killer stealing Natalie's photos out of the machine where she was with Gavin. Why would he do that? Let's investigate. Brook seeks him out. She doesn't find him. Gavin is wandering off alone also and he wants to get a cuddly toy for Natalie. He ends up meeting the killer who kills him with a mallet. The killer takes Gavin's phone and he sends a text message to Natalie and finds out where they are. Natalie realises that the killer is not alone with his mask. There are loads of employees of Hellfest wearing the same one. It makes things a lot worse for her. As they progress through the place, it gets scarier and more extreme. They get freaked out by the different experiences. The killer is shadowing them. Natalie catches sight of him once again and knows that he is coming.

The killer manages to kill Asher before trying to kill Natalie. She goes to the security guys to tell them, but they don't take it seriously at all. Taylor disappears and the others look for her. She ends up on stage with The Barker(Todd) who is going to execute her with a guillotine(not for real). The others watch as she seems to get killed. The killer is behind the stage and he tries to do it for real, but it doesn't work.

The world's most annoying character eventually gets herself stabbed and dies. She was irritating beyond belief, so it's no loss. Quinn also gets it.  Brooke and Natalie are the only ones not dead at this point, so they run and hide from the killer. There are lots of cat and mouse chases and the movie comes to an end with the two girls surviving his reign of terror. The police come and they are safe. The killer goes home and we see that he is just an ordinary joe who happens to have a daughter.

This was an entertaining slasher movie. I liked the setting of Hellfest and there were some creepy bits. There is nothing that we haven't seen before, but I thought that this was just fun. There is no need to think about it and you know what you are getting. I will say that the group of friends were pretty annoying, especially that Taylor girl and this does prevent you from really caring if they die or not. I certainly didn't care. Anyway, this is an enjoyable slasher movie and I am going to give it a 6/10 because I liked the setting and some of the scenes.