Hell’s Ground (2007) (DVD Review)
Director: Omar Khan
Where to get it: TLAvideo
After lying to their parents and running off to see a rock concert, five teenagers leave their suburb neighborhood of Islamabad and travel into the wild only to have their van break down and they get set upon by not only flesh eating zombies, but a ghoulish hitchhiker, and a blood-soaked, burqa-wearing killer.This movie is also noted for being Pakistan’s first gore film!
This is a foreign film that packs a lot of historic value due to its content and where it’s from, but I also think it needs credit for how well done it actually is. What we have on our hands here is a slasher flick that breaks out in the middle of a zombie outbreak. That is a unique combination that I admit I had thought of before but had never seen it executed on film before. The results is a very violent movie that packs all the things we love about horror films but due to the setting and characters its make for an eerie and interesting atmosphere the whole way along.
The film has a style that really bleeds the ingredients of films that have influenced it over the years. We can see a dose of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, and countless other zombie flicks. Our killer has a look that doesn’t rip off any killer in my memory and has the look to become a really popular killer in itself. If you love gore the movie packs plenty of that in spots and it looks very gory and awesome and given the setting of the film that makes the fact it got made even more amazing. Overall I think Hell’s Ground is a very good accomplishment for a director that did what he wanted to do and got a very nice result he can be proud of.
(7/10)
Features
– Director Commentary
– Ice Cream Zombieland Documentary
– LUMS Premiere Interviews
– Zuj Music promo
– Trailer
