While there’s always going be exceptions, the general conceit of the slasher horror movie subgenre is that it exists as a form of violent escapism. When the slasher genre started to wane a couple decades ago, the “torture porn” genre (ex. Saw, Hostel, etc.) flourished in its absence. As long as the movie hits a few key notes and leaves buckets of blood in its wake, audiences are going to get what they came for. Hell Fest is in many ways a return to form for slasher movies but at the same time it fails to clear this very basic benchmark.
Daily Archives: October 1, 2018
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