HELL FEST (18)

WHO’S IN IT?

Amy Forsyth (Torment), Reign Edwards (35 and Ticking), Bex Taylor-Klaus (The Last Witch Hunter), Christian James (Dollface), Matt Mercurio (Blind Trust), Roby Attal (film debut), Tony Todd (Candyman), Michael Tourek (Office Christmas Party), Courtney Dietz (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Gregory Plotkin (Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension), director, editor; Blair Butler (film debut), Akela Cooper (film debut) and Seth M. Sherwood (Leatherface), writers; Gale Anne Hurd (The Terminator) and Tucker Tooley (Den of Thieves), producers; Bear McCreary (10 Cloverfield Lane), composer; José David Montero (Apollo 18), cinematographer; David Egan (Game Night), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

A group of college students decide to spend the night at Hell Fest, a travelling horror-themed amusement park that happens to be in town. However, a deadly serial killer also happens to be there in an opportunity to hunt and kill unsuspecting attendees, with everyone else too caught up in the park’s interactive fun to notice that the killings are real – but when the students soon catch on, they must try and survive the night…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Hell Fest looks like it will be a good old-fashioned slasher movie that would have easily been made in the wake of Halloween or Friday the 13th but we’re grateful is being made now for this generation.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 16TH NOVEMBER 2018

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