Fresh Hell

2021

Action / Comedy / Horror

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 58% · 5 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 58%
IMDb Rating 3.8/10 10 333 333

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Plot summary

During the dog days of the pandemic, a group of old friends fall prey to a psychotic troll. Blood. Chuckles. Very cool ;)

Director

Ryan Imhoff Photo
Ryan Imhoff

Top cast

Grant Lancaster Photo
Grant Lancaster as Det. Pierson
Alison Plott Photo
Alison Plott as 911 Operator
Tyler Owen Parsons Photo
Tyler Owen Parsons as Brian
Christina Reis Photo
Christina Reis as Laura
720p.BluRay
770.21 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 23 min
Seeds 2

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by michaelgerardfox 4 / 10

Villain Doing his best Jim Carrey

Overall, this wasn't a bad movie. It was an interesting concept and did a fairly decent of capturing the feel of the COVID lockdown period. The scene where the villain Zoom-bombs the protagonists' online party was both funny and creepy.The acting was a bit uneven. Some of the characters were pretty well done, but others were really bad. The villain in particular ruined it for me. Apparently, he was going for an "over the top" psycho and used Jim Carrey as his model. I just couldn't get passed the fact that he just seemed to be doing a really bad Jim Carrey impression. I kept waiting for him to bust out some lines from Ace Ventura or The Cable Guy.
Reviewed by nsugamori 1 / 10

Had it on while I did other things.

I felt really badly knowing that someone put a lot of work into this project. I felt as if they thought they were witty when crafting the dialogue. The acting was like a film class. The emotions were not realistic. The last set was nice. I genuinely didn't like the stranger. I suppose I wasn't supposed to like him so that can be considered a win. It was just written over the top from start to finish. It wasn't a slow build. The mystery of it wasn't engaging. I have seen a few other zoom split screen movies. I understand the low budget convenience. The others weren't good either. I am certain it could be done well. The others I saw were also elimination murders.
Reviewed by BandSAboutMovies 7 / 10

Shocking

Created by a group of Chicago theatre artists locked out of their livelihoods by the pandemic, Fresh Hell was a movie I thought I'd struggle through. No offense to directors Ryan Imhoff (who also wrote the script and plays The Stranger) and Matt Neal, but I'm on Microsoft Teams all day for work and struggle to get through up to ten virtual meetings a day. Could I handle one in my non-work free time?Grace (Lanise Antoine Shelley), James (Randolph Thompson), Kara (Christine Vrem-Ydstie), Cynthia (Crystal Kim), Brian (Tyler Owen Parsons), Scott (Will Mobley), Todd (Rob Fagin) and Laura (Christina Reis) all gather for a video chat and by the end, The Stranger appears in place of their friend Laura. Their call ends with him knowing too much about them, hints that Laura is dead and the sinister man slicing his own cock off and showing the bloody wound left behind.This is where the film changed and brought me in. Grace lost her sister in the early days of COVID-19 and while everyone else thinks Laura's death is some kind of joke, she worries that what they've seen may be real. That's when The Stranger starts coming for everyone else.Mwanwhile, Scott has become an alt-right firebrand, human puppies show up in the background of the others when Grace tries to warn them and then the finale is an on-stage talk show with the surviving characters and The Stranger, which again, is unexpected.I'm glad I stuck with this movie. I was honestly expecting it to be background noise, but it becomes more deranged, unsettled and surprising as it goes on. And isn't that what we want from movies these days? Trust me: stick around for that first videochat and then buckle up.
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