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Hellgate (1989)
Topic Started: Jan 22 2015, 12:00 AM (148 Views)
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The Devil Himself
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A motorcycle gang kidnaps a young woman, Josie, from a diner and brutally kills her. Many years later, the girl's father finds a magic crystal that can bring the life back to dead objects. He uses it to re-animate his daughter. He lets her seduce any young man that comes to visit the small town and then kills them. Four young students, two boys and two girls spend a vacation near the town, Hellgate. They hear about the story and get involved.
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This was really bad but entertaining, as with most 80s horror. The characters are total goofballs who crack a lot on unfunny jokes but it was something charming about them. There's a few kills in the movie and it had some great make up effects, lots of boobs, lots of cheese, and it had a shirtless Horshak. Worth a watch.
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On the whole this one wasn't really all that enjoyable and had a lot of problems with it. What really hurts this one more than anything is the incredibly tiring concept of not getting any answers for anything that happens here as just about everything never makes any kind of sense. There's nothing in here about the strange crystal that reactivates the dead, what happens to them when they return or anything else, there's little about the ghost town other than the legend about the waitress and even that doesn't make sense for it seems to be a revenge scenario about the dead girl's father bringing her back to life but she doesn't go after her attackers and the entire process is just utterly confusing. On top of that, the motivations here are a complete mess with this one taking the hero out to the location of the cursed town at the very beginning and getting rightly freaked out but then turning around and going back later on with friends on a completely contrived and ludicrous explanation that never once comes off as believable. This also creates such a haphazard and lazy story that it shuffles around between several different plot-points coming from several different places and can't make up its mind which one it wants to be and further confuses matters with the way this handles the group getting to the cursed town, which all-told makes the first half of this one extremely tough to get into. Not only is the plot tough to get into, but the fact that this one tends to really stumble about in the last half with a series of lame scare scenes that are laughable in the fact that they're meant to be terrifying, from being afraid of a can-can line of dancers, a scene where stuffed turtles, fish and frogs get reanimated and turn on the spectators in the room or the seduction attempts that get passed off as legitimate despite one second it's under their psychotic spell while another has it to be his own choosing simply makes this one come off even lamer with the rather cheesy attacks that are supposed to induce thrills. Still, there's some good stuff at work here including the main story about the legendary ghost town which is prime for stuff like this to really mark a strong impression overall here as it's got a great back-story with plenty to like about it, and the recap scenes are certainly enjoyable enough as well. As well, this one's biggest plus is the fact that there's a quite enjoyable finale stuck in the haunted town which has a lot of chasing, some decent deaths here that come off quite nicely and plenty of action, with frantic chases through town by the freak-show attendees and the frantic chasing in the house as well as the finale which is a strikingly fun car chase to end things on a positive note. There's also the rampant nudity here that comes from those well- prepared to deliver it, at least on the female side which is all enough to make this one watchable but it's still highly flawed regardless.
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It's only up in clips on Youtube...and I guess it was on Netflix at one point. Where was I when that happened?
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GL84
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Chiller had it on one of their Throwback Thursdays a few months ago, which is where I saw it. Edited to hell, but at least they left the nudity and just blurred it out rather than most other channels just removing the offending frames altogether. Best I can do until I get that Anchor Bay DVD double feature with The Pit (how the hell that package ever came together I'll never know) which I've had my eye on a few times but can't seem to ever want to pull the trigger on ordering.
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Some people are like slinkies: not good for anything, but you can't help but laugh when one falls down the stairs.

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I think my DVD version is maybe cut cause I didn't feel there was enough kills/gore, I didn't mind the story but it was kinda tame.

That exploding fish though. (grin)
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This was okay. Maybe 6/10
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This really badly done ,

The plot sounded so good ,

This is one movie that could do with a remake

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