Here Comes Hell

There's a great mix of light humour dark humour and light horror and gorey horror.... from Lon Chaney srs living skull to the evil dead homage to films and techniques gone by... this is by fans for fans but is so easy to watch surely everyone could enjoy it... maybe more for film lovers than film snobs

I don't really like criticising films I don't enjoy, but there's no denying that HERE COMES HELL (2019) is a very poor film, an attempt at a comedy horror told on a micro budget. It's a British indie set in the 1930s which sees a group of friends heading to a country house for a knees-up, only to run into supernatural trouble when a seance goes bad and demons arrive on the scene. What we have here is an EVIL DEAD clone openly ripping off lines and scenes from the first two movies in the Raimi series. It's entirely cheap and badly acted throughout, with excruciatingly plummy voices, and the black and white digital photography adds nothing either. There's plenty of gore for those into that kind of thing, but don't expect decent FX on a budget this low. I found it all very silly and a definite miss rather than a hit, despite the undoubted enthusiasm of the filmmakers, and I'm glad I saw it for free on Film4 instead of forking out for it.

It has the look and feel of a student film, but the best one in the class! The acting is fantastic, better than I expected. Shot nicely, edited precisely and good creepy (also funny, a lot) writing. Shot in black and white, you'll see where shortcuts were taken to save money but.... BRAVO! This is definately worth a watch. I liked it a lot.

Ha! Good old campy black and white horror fun, with some more modern gory effects and probably what Diane Behindstein would classify as 'assault weapons'. Add some bad jokes and cheesy one liners and what you've got is a pretty entertaining little flick. A little House of Usher moment at the end and you have a decent 6/10

Here Comes Hell: Horror Comedy, a pastiche of 1930s films. People assemble for a a dinner party in a semi-derelict stately pile recently purchased by a gormless chap who has inherited his father's loot. An American oil heir travelling by train to the meet up is warned by a fellow passenger about a previous occupant of the house, an Occultist who scared the local villagers. The dinner party host has the spiffing idea of hiring a Medium who will lead a Seance to contact the Occultist. Things go wrong and Demons are set loose. Great scenes of possession, fingers bitten off, heads half destroyed with bullets but the possessed keep coming. Every cliche in the book is milked for laugh. An entertaining romp. Written & Directed by Jack McHenry. Streaming free at: On All4. 6/10.

Yes the sound quality is poor and the acting could be better... But it's a brave effort and for £20,000 it's surprisingly engaging... Certainly a lot better than "The Dead don't Die" and other Hollywood offerings... If it's cold and raining and there's nothing else on the telly - It's well worth a watch... You won't be disappointed...