It's only July, but if you look at what we've seen thus far in 2018, it's already an insanely terrific year for horror and genre movies. Ari Aster's Hereditary spooked audiences to their core, Coralie Fargeat's Revenge emerged as an all-timer of a blood-soaked revenge fantasy, and Johannes Roberts' The Strangers: Prey at Night became something of a mini slasher classic. Beyond that, there's a plethora of superhero movies, as well as Leigh Whannell's Upgrade, Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You, Alex Garland's Annhilation, and so on. Oh, and John Krasinski's A Quiet Place, one of the biggest horror hits in recent memory. But if you thought the first half of 2018 was good, the lineup for the latter half of this year is perhaps even more impressive. Halloween, Suspiria, Bad Times at the El Royale, Overlord, Mandy- it's an amazing lineup. One of Fall 2018's smaller horror outings is Hell Fest, a chiller about the bloody festivities of a Halloween-themed amusement park. Yesterday, CBS Films released the first trailer for the film- check it out below!
The upcoming horror films I listed above are among my most-anticipated for the rest of 2018, which means I have unbelievably high expectations for all of them. When you consider that we're talking about new films from Luca Guadagnino and Drew Goddard, as well as an acclaimed Sundance hit and a new chapter in a major franchise, that kinda makes sense. My expectations for Hell Fest are considerably lower, but the idea here is so delightfully twisted that I'm excited nonetheless. This is a movie with no stars and six credited writers, and yet it looks like one of the more purely enjoyable slashers of the fall. It's the directorial debut of Gregory Plotkin, a name that will likely be unknown to even the most seasoned of cinephiles. However, Plotkin was the editor for Get Out and Game Night, two recent favorites of mine. If his talent in the editing booth carries over to his work behind the camera, Hell Fest should be a wicked trip.
Plus, this movie is just genius on a conceptual level. Every horror fan has gone to one of these Halloween horror parks before (in Charlotte, the local theme park hosts "Scarowinds" every year), and it's a perfect place to set a piece of pulpy mayhem like this. Hell Fest looks like a great time at the movies, and I can't wait to check it out.
Hell Fest opens in theaters on September 28.
Image courtesy of CBS Films
The upcoming horror films I listed above are among my most-anticipated for the rest of 2018, which means I have unbelievably high expectations for all of them. When you consider that we're talking about new films from Luca Guadagnino and Drew Goddard, as well as an acclaimed Sundance hit and a new chapter in a major franchise, that kinda makes sense. My expectations for Hell Fest are considerably lower, but the idea here is so delightfully twisted that I'm excited nonetheless. This is a movie with no stars and six credited writers, and yet it looks like one of the more purely enjoyable slashers of the fall. It's the directorial debut of Gregory Plotkin, a name that will likely be unknown to even the most seasoned of cinephiles. However, Plotkin was the editor for Get Out and Game Night, two recent favorites of mine. If his talent in the editing booth carries over to his work behind the camera, Hell Fest should be a wicked trip.
Plus, this movie is just genius on a conceptual level. Every horror fan has gone to one of these Halloween horror parks before (in Charlotte, the local theme park hosts "Scarowinds" every year), and it's a perfect place to set a piece of pulpy mayhem like this. Hell Fest looks like a great time at the movies, and I can't wait to check it out.
Hell Fest opens in theaters on September 28.
Image courtesy of CBS Films
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