What if the blood-stained scares at an immersive horror experience were actually happening in real life... and you didn't realize the truth until you became the next addition to the haunted attraction? That creepy question is examined in the new horror movie Hell Fest (co-starring Amy Forsyth, Bex Taylor-Klaus, and Tony Todd), and ahead of the film's September 28th theatrical release from CBS Films and Lionsgate, a new red band trailer has been unleashed, inviting you into the deadly depths of a terror-filled theme park.
Directed by Gregory Plotkin (the editor of Get Out and Happy Death Day) and produced by Gale Anne Hurd (AMC's The Walking Dead), Hell Fest stars the aforementioned Forsyth, Taylor-Klaus, and Todd, as well as "Reign Edwards (The Bold and The Beautiful, Snowfall), Christian James (Nashville, Exposed), Roby Attal (The Long Road Home, Red Eleven), [and] Matt Mercurio (Black Lightning, The Resident)."
Before it's released in US theaters on September 28th from CBS Films and Lionsgate, you can experience immersive mazes based on scenes from Hell Fest at the Fright Fest events at Six Flags locations in the United States.
"A masked serial killer turns a horror themed amusement park into his own personal playground, terrorizing a group of friends while the rest of the patrons believe that it is all part of the show.
College student NATALIE (Forsyth) is visiting her childhood best friend BROOKE (Edwards) and her roommate TAYLOR (Taylor-Klaus). If it was any other time of year these three and their boyfriends might be heading to a concert or bar, but it is Halloween which means that like everyone else they will be bound for HELL FEST – a sprawling labyrinth of rides, games, and mazes that travels the country and happens to be in town. Every year thousands follow Hell Fest to experience fear at the ghoulish carnival of nightmares.
But for one visitor, Hell Fest is not the attraction – it is a hunting ground. An opportunity to slay in plain view of a gawking audience, too caught up in the terrifyingly fun atmosphere to recognize the horrific reality playing out before their eyes. As the body count and frenzied excitement of the crowds continues to rise, he turns his masked face to NATALIE, BROOKE, TAYLOR and their boyfriends who will fight to survive the night.
A terrifying thrill ride from iconic horror producer Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead, The Terminator) and director Gregory Plotkin (Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, Editor – Get Out, Happy Death Day), this September, audiences will discover that it’s fun going in… but it’s hell getting out."
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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