Hell Fest: reviews

What the critics say average 3.6 from 5

• 5.0 El PaísJordi Costa Gregory Plotkin rescues the spirit of Hooper's 'House of Horrors'. 'Hell Fest' is a film that could have played much more imaginatively with the contrast between stiffened artifice and real terror. Read
• 4.0 FotogramasFausto Fernández Bad acting and bad directing. It is more of one of the cloned current ways of approaching the genre made in the more routine Blumhouse than a return to the party. Read
• 3.8 Roger EbertNick Allen It?s the closest you can subject people to a horror potluck without being 'The Cabin in the Woods'. So why can?t the six writers of this story have more fun with this premise? Read
• 3.0 VarietyDennis Harvey Eye candy without much to offer the brain or emotions, 'Hell Fest' is a competently crafted slasher film rendered instantly forgettable by its disinterest in character, plot, and motivation, let alone original ideas. Read
• 2.0 The WrapWilliam Bibbiani It?s in love with its location and couldn?t care less about the characters. Even the kills are rote disappointments, at least by slasher-enthusiast standards. Read
• The Hollywood ReporterKeith Uhlich You've seen it all before, and better: A blade to the chest, an axe to the leg, a syringe to the eye. Read