Hellen
I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Steinesongo
Too many fans seem to be blown away
Pacionsbo
Absolutely Fantastic
jlthornb51
Masterful and chilling, Hell is a film that was tragically overlooked when first released. Despite winning the Fantasporto award and being acclaimed at several festivals, it deserved a wider and more appreciative audience. The director has certainly embraced the style of the great German auteurs of silent and early sound film and made their genius his own. In his hands, the cast gives performances that are virtually breathtaking. Working within a minimal budget with imagination and skill, the crew make the situation seem all too real. One of the better films to come out of Germany in the last few years, do not deny yourself the incredible experience that is Hell.
brianshoebridge1
I enjoyed Hell but found it a little frustrating as it could have been so much better. It would be fair to describe it as 'sparse'. The film's name wasn't translated (it would have been "Bright") but I think "Hell" was the correct choice there.The basic idea is a nice twist on the usual post-apocalypse flick. It is not a big-budget action/adventure movie, instead relying on good scripts, creative direction & well-developed characters. Up to a point that is. It ends up being largely a vehicle for the popular German actress Hannah Herzsprung.The characters were never really filled in, especially the two male leads. I thought Herzsprung was somewhat older 'til I checked IMDb & found she was only 30 when she made this. Most of the time in Hell she has a worried look on her face. She is really the only character developed at all.I liked the idea behind the contrasting bleakness but in practice not so much. The lighting was either extremely exposed or extremely dark which I found annoying to look at after a while. Despite the extreme sunlight which has scorched the entire landscape no-one seems to get very hot, either in the car or running in lots of clothes.I think if they had made it 15mins longer & fleshed out the characters a bit more it would have been better also. Worth watching however.
Un aficionado
This is a German contribution to the long list of dystopian movies around. Although what causes so much desolation is evident, it is unknown the exact reason for a changed world. Do not expect special effects, lasers cutting flesh or big dramas. There are not zombies or aliens around that prey on humans, but still the name Hell is also an allegory to human behavior (but apparently that wasn't the director intention). The story is not original but it is simple and straight, and the acting is mostly convincing. Unfortunately after a suspenseful beginning the pace wanes and the story gets very predictable. Contrary to similar movies, Hell is probably too short and it could have a little more development. For those who love the genre they will find a decent movie, where normal people get stranded in unusual circumstances and never act as heroes that save the world.
fedor8
Picture this: you've been barely surviving in a post-apocalyptic over-heated world for 3 long years. People have become savages, fighting violently over food and water which are extremely scarce. You are aware that malicious humans lurk everywhere. You drive along, and suddenly you nearly crash into an obviously man-made roadblock. Do you really stop to look around? Do you actually scatter, have a stroll? Do you leave a young girl in the car alone? Doesn't this look to you like a very obvious trap? It should - but certainly not to the morons in this movie. They get played over and over like a bunch of ninnies by a family of semi-retarded hillbilly cannibals!The movie has a very bland, unappealing look, a great problem with most modern (horror) films. If you're colour-blind, you miss out on nothing - the movie has only two colors; green for indoor scenes, and yellow for outdoor scenes. Yeah, I get it; the Sun has expanded, it's very hot all the time, bla bla bla. The temperature went up by 10 degrees, not bloody 100 C! The indoor greenish hue is almost a coincidental or at the very least ironic tribute to "Soylent Green", an old non-greenish movie that must have exerted some influence on this movie's creators. Speaking of which, that was no surprise at all. The stench of cannibalism followed this movie from the very start; it was obviously going to play a role at some point. And yet another such movie presents cannibals as people with super-human strength and skills. But eating human flesh doesn't give you any such powers or we'd all be munching each other by now, right? Where did these people develop such dexterity, speed, and even web-throwing skills? I have seen seasoned Texan cowboys who'd be jealous of the precision with which these man-eating buffoons catch their prey with mere webs. Anyway, this family would have to be much larger in order to carry out such a successful operation.Nor do I find a speck of logic in a family of savage, butchering cannibals saying their PRAYERS before every meal – aside perhaps in a horror comedy directed by a young Peter Jackson. Real (ex-Christian) cannibals would have dropped the Bible and God a long time before starting to stalk, maim, butcher and cook random humans. Even though I'm an atheist, I'd have to side with the religious sheep on this one; a true Bible-hugger is less likely to start killing people for food (and not even temporarily but as a way of life) than a non-religious person, simply because a religious nut has larger barriers i.e. bigger walls to pull down in order to commence engaging in an activity that is so blatantly Satanic. I am not saying violent sects don't exist, but this is CANNIBALISM we're talking about.Besides, I see plenty of trees and other vegetation here. I don't see how this green-surrounded family had to turn to cannibalism so quickly.The older sister is a bona fide retard; she makes all the dumb decisions, one after another. Her biggest blunder was giving away the location of her wounded hence vulnerable boyfriend to a woman she'd just met 5 seconds earlier – in spite of already having realized that someone had set that roadblock as a trap. So 3 years of bare-knuckle struggling in a post-apocalyptic dog-eat-dog world hadn't taught this woman anything at all? If she were really this stupid, my guess is that she would have been dead a long time before this wee cannibalistic adventure even began.The less said about her younger sister, the better. She is a spoiled, back-stabbing, dumb, egotistical little brat, and yet it's expected from us to actually care about her ongoing rescue efforts? Couple that with her group's overall stupidity and I see no reason why we should not root for the cannibals to eat them. It's not as if anyone has a future anyway in this totally bleak, hopeless wasteland. (Unless there's a sequel in which the Sun starts shrinking again - which could make for a great comedy.) Hence the predictably inconclusive ending; the plot simply had nowhere to go.Still, for a German movie it wasn't badly done. 4/10 is probably the pinnacle for them.
