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Hellhole (1985)
Directed by Pierre De Moro
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Overview
An unlucky woman’s mother is murdered by a scarf-wielding killer named Silk, leaving the woman injured, traumatised and suffering from amnesia. She’s committed to a mental institution, where Silk follows her, looking for the papers he was trying to get from her mother. And Silk’s only the beginning of her problems, since the asylum is run by a mad doctor, performing experiments in chemical lobotomies!
Rated R | Length 96 minutes
Actors
Ray Sharkey | Judy Landers | Mary Woronov | Marjoe Gortner | Richard Cox | Edy Williams | Terry Moore | Robert Z'Dar | Martin Beck | Cliff Emmich | Lynn Borden | Lamya Derval | Natalie Main | Dyanne Thorne | Pamela Ward | Carole Ita White
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/28/2023 | Home Theater | Blu-ray | Owned | 6 stars |
| (Average) 6 stars |
Viewing Notes
Fourth feature film of Scream, Secret Cinema, Scream! horror marathon and another that neither Jay nor I had seen before. This is another film that I added to the marathon after someone mentioned it on Twitter. After checking out the trailer and cast, it was a shoe-in.
This is a perfect mid-80s sleazy B-movie horror thriller that’s basically a women-in-prison film where the prison just happens to be a women’s psychiatric hospital run by genre stalwart Mary Woronov. I think there are more gratuitous, extended full-frontal nudity scenes in this, many of them group scenes, than in any WIP movie I’ve ever watched.
The film is supported by an interestingly eclectic cast including Judy Landers, Robert Z’Dar (looking incredibly young here) and the scenery chewing Brooklyn-born Ray Sharkey who gives a gloriously unhinged performance as killer-for-hire and resident psychopath, Silk. Silk is equal parts leather boy and Freedy Kreuger and ups the camp here by a factor of 1000.
This was the perfect movie to drop into the middle of the marathon as a tonal break from the previous films. This really needs to get a slot on THE LAST DRIVE-IN as it’s so very much a Joe Bob Briggs movie.
Luckily this film is easy to see because Scream! Factory released it on Blu-ray a while back. I actually picked this up as part of the October sale.
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