Hell Fest is not a well-rounded film, but it meets expectations by steeping the viewer in spooky imagery and squeezing some suspense out of its premise making it a worthwhile October watch.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 9, 2024

The movie remains satisfying because it's not trying to approach the slasher genre from a place of irony or nostalgia, as many have in recent years.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 11, 2022

While overly simplistic, Hell Fest does at least feature some nuances of female friendship.

| Original Score: C | Jul 22, 2021

...just a bunch of gooey stuff.

| May 17, 2021

The introductions to the characters feel contrived and their dynamics are derivative, and the dialogue feels like a poor caricature of middle school speak.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 25, 2020

It's not really a trick or a treat. Think throwaway instead.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 28, 2020

Can frighten you only because it's so bad.

| Original Score: C | Nov 10, 2019

It may be a great setting, but what happens there is far too familiar, even cliché.

| Oct 18, 2019

The movie might seem like nothing special on paper, but its simplicity is its greatest strength.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 26, 2019

Hell Fest is a typical teen slasher film that's refreshingly free of demonic possession, but also free of originality.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 19, 2019

The climax is badly planned. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 10, 2019

What sets this slasher apart is the detailed production design from Michael Perry with each set piece invoking a different style of horror film tradition and Tobe Hooper's body of work an obvious influence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 3, 2019

An agreeably good-natured fright-fest that gleefully evokes the spirit of sideshow haunted houses.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 3, 2019

At its best, Hell Fest makes inspired use of its amusement-park setting, but it ultimately counts for naught when the plotting is this threadbare and the characters this insipid.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 12, 2019

[Hell Fest] promises a frightful time if you are not very demanding of the genre. [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 20, 2018

Hell Fest is a horror movie that contributes very little in terms of narrative, scares or imagination. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 10, 2018

I want to go to this haunt. Like yesterday. This place is friggin' awesome.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 10, 2018

It is a shame when a movie like this is let down by the very reason for its existence. A slasher movie is only as strong as its slasher and the fear that slasher creates.

| Dec 1, 2018

For this coward, however, I found myself surprisingly enjoying HELL FEST. I enjoyed the characters and their interactions. The use of a haunted house attraction as the setting was pretty smart and led to a good mix of tension and earned fear releases.

| Nov 27, 2018

It wasn't anything new, it was old riffs done in a way that was actually quite efficient.... The nastiest is the right level of nasty, the silliness is the right level of silly.

| Nov 16, 2018