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This movie is all over the place. What the heck are those grim reaper dudes anyway. Apart from eating peoples insides and whacking up people's faces and dropping bones all over the place. It's junk and the title music sucks. A typical low budget crappy movie. Apart from the usual small time actors and a hardly known producer company what has this movie got going for it.

Some of the acting is OK i'll give it that but the the movie has no plot.

Nothing

Stephen Dellabarca

Hell Asylum has a similar storyline to HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, but don't expect it to be as entertaining. A group of young girls enter a haunted house in participation in a reality television show, if they last the night, they will recieve a million dollars. That's the whole story. Hell Asylum even plays like a reality television show by filming from the diffrent cameras located in the house, which are all black and white and often very snowy, add to that, the house is always in darkness so we get some confusing hard to watch footage of the girls getting killed. The death scenes were very bloody but it was hard to tell what was happening because of the darkness and snowy picture. On the plus side the characters were very interesting, each girl had a very diffrent personality to the next and i would have been more interested in seeing how they got along some more, but the girls began getting killed one by one before they even had a chance to settle in. My rating 4/10.

A group of girls enter a TV reality show, where they have to spend time in a haunted house doing specific tasks to win 1 million dollars, though no-one counted on real spirits killing the crew and contestants.

Well the plot idea is right out of The house on Haunted hill (1958)- but really this is nothing more then watching stunning young women get butchered to death and eaten by ghosts... literally! Well the idea for this film took no brainstorm.

The filmmakers came up with an incredibly dull and unimaginative film, that had trouble keeping my full interest and the running time is only 67mins! The script was tripe and extremely stilted, as you just groan at the clichés and stupid lines you hear and the acting... geez it was awfully over the top, no charisma or talent evident.

The blood and gore was just laughable- I just thought it was over-used and ridiculously lousy… was that the end of a mop or noodles covered with fake blood as intestines?

The plot, where did it go? If you start off with one, you might as well finish it off. It's starts with introducing us to the TV reality show, the crooked host/director, the 5 female contestants and the history of the haunted place- but after this it goes off the rails, as you don't know what the heck is going on? There are no explanations why the ghosts are killing people, while the characters one by one just go and get knocked off. The characters were the usual one-dimensional stereotypes- but hardly engaging to care what happen to them. While the house itself is hardly atmospheric or chilling and the lighting was so dim it was hard to tell what was going on.

The camera work was pretty horrid, I think that they thought it was quite inventive- but it's not. The ghosts were 'fairly' eerie, well more the way they move and appear- but there nothing more then a person wearing a black cloak. What the film sorely lacks is tension and good scares.

Some of those interviews with the contestants to see why they are participating in this reality game are pretty ironic in what we are viewing in this piece of crap. While the satirical ending on the media producers was really platitudinous.

This film wasn't enjoyable enough to be entertaining, if you think it would be so bad it would be funny... it's no fun, it's a pretty miserable viewing.

Though it might be a REALLY cheap amateur film, that's no excuse for a lame story, script and a lack of suspense and chills.

What a turkey!

It's amazing to me that this was allowed on DVD at all. It's just that bad. The plot, that there is a reality TV game-show thing with models who have to go into haunted rooms and such does admittedly have potential. Unfortunately, that potential was not carried out. To be honest, my favorite part was the credits, and that's simply because they at least looked halfway professional, unlike the rest of the movie. The actors prove that you can't just pull someone off the street and expect them to be good, although the actors aren't entirely to blame, as there is no one who could pull off the hackneyed clichés of the characters.

The music was just annoying, the gore looked more like spaghetti and that stuff in tapes (the black stuff) than someone's insides, and frankly, I find it hard to believe that this was made by someone who wasn't above the age of 18. The only good feature this 'film' (and I use the term very very loosely) has is that it did indeed leave me feeling sick, but for all the wrong reasons.

A friend bought this film as part of a collection of ten horror films for ten dollars. I was recently at their house and had the terrible misfortune to view it.

Hell Asylum is a hideous, hideous film with a blatantly ripped-off storyline from House on Haunted Hill.

Five beautiful stereotypes -the skank, the girl next door, the goth, the wannabe star, and the all attitude black chick- are sent to a haunted house as part of a reality TV show, and meet several not scary ghouls. The cloaked monsters provide no thrills, and the ending will have you either laughing or sleeping.

This film is bad. So bad it seems as if a film student made it just to pass film school (they wouldn't have passed) on a budget of $500. (Including actors' salaries.)

The awful, horrendous acting would be more suited in a Porn film and the 'gore' in Hell Asylum consists of 'intestines' which resemble spaghetti.

If only the Mystery Science Theater 3000 guys were still around to serve it the justice it deserves.

Watch out for the TV producer who bears a strange and unsettling resemblance to Martin Sheen. Except for the fact that Martin Sheen can actually act.

The scariest part of this film is the realization that someone actually paid money to have this produced.

Save your money at the video store and rent the Ring instead.

i can't believe there are actually people who will give "hell asylum" a 10/10. you can try to praise that these people made the movie on a low budget and in about 10 days of filming, but that's it. the acting is sooo bad, the camera work sucks, the lights work is awful except for two or three details, and you miss most of the action because it's too dark, the ghosts are laughable at and you end up hating every and each of the five contestants. leaving aside that's it's a "house on the haunted hill" rip-off, "hell asylum" is plain boring and you only laugh with that guy who is supposed to play the fake ghosts of the house to scare the chicks. in my opinion it might have been a little more decent if at least they had tried to find a set which resembles more a haunted house, but the place looks like a high school and you wonder where those stupid teenagers might have been hidden. nice try, but i'm sorry, i don't buy this. i gave it a 2/10.

Five attractive women compete in a reality TV show for a prize of $1m; in order to win, they must spend a night in a haunted building (wired up with numerous CCTV cameras) where they must confront their deepest fears.

'You have been forewarned' it says on the cover of my DVD.

Let me tell you that if the box for this pile of crap had a ten foot tall neon sign attached to it reading 'This film is awful', you will not have been forewarned enough. If, when you opened the box, a voice screamed 'Put this film down and walk away—you're wasting your life watching bilge like this!', it wouldn't be a strong enough deterrent.

I suggest that before being permitted to view this abomination, potential candidates should be psychologically tested for several weeks to ensure that their minds are strong enough to handle the dreadful direction, amateurish acting and risible special effects. They must be made aware that viewing such material will possibly be harmful to their mental wellbeing. An intensive course of watching extremely bad films would need to be completed, after which, the person should be informed that Hell Asylum is much worse.

Only then will they have been adequately forewarned!

Director (and I use that word in the loosest possible sense) Danny Draven takes an extremely derivative script (House on Haunted Hill, anyone? My Little Eye?) and a no-talent cast (only pretty blonde Stacey Scowley is forgiven, thanks to a cute set of dimples), places them in a truly unremarkable and unconvincing locale (asylum?... it looks more like an abandoned school), and delivers a horrible mess bereft of scares, decent gore (the FX make-up is bargain basement stuff, with some scenes featuring intestines that look like spaghetti), or female nudity (one girl runs around in her undies—but that's it!).

This is utter dross that fully deserves lowest rating possible.

You would have more fun spending the night in a real asylum as opposed to watching this straight-to-video rubbish. Without a doubt one of the worst films I have ever seen, the acting is terrible, the production extremely bad (it looks like a documentary, even though it is sort-of supposed to be, it still shouldn't look as poor as it does), poor sound quality, cheesy gore, and as for trying to merge "The House on Haunted Hill" and reality TV into one movie. Well. That was a bad idea from the start. How I could even write as much as I have written for this film already is beyond me. Seriously, watching this film is utter torture unto itself.

I think this is a well done horror flick. It had my two favorite Full Moon actresses :DEBRA MAYER and TANYA DEMPSEY, although I must admit that SUNNY LOMBARDO steals the show as the goth chick. The acting and the effects were good, the plot moved fast enough and there were a couple of good moments.

Attempting to sell a new reality TV show, a producer and his crew bring a group of models to an abandoned asylum to begin taping the pilot for a reality TV show exploring the facility, but when they begin to die the group realizes the stories about its haunted history are true and try to leave alive.

Overall, this was a decent enough and somewhat enjoyable effort. One of the better features here is the rather impressive setup that starts everything going at the asylum. With the opening introduction to getting the contestants onboard and their arrival at the abandoned building which is all alongside the rather enjoyable backstories given about the various histories associated with the location. While completely cliched and not in the slightest bit original, it gives this one just enough to set the right tone here to get the later confrontations feeling that much more enjoyable. Those setpieces come off rather well and give this one quite a lot to like. The series of initial encounters within the asylum involving the ghosts taking out the workers setting up the facility and then the first disqualified contest offer up some nice scenes to get it going, while the ambush in the control room gets to showcase their aggression and ferocity rather well. Other encounters with the contestants, from a maggot shower down in the basement to a confrontation in the furnace room involving a highly surprising and unexpected victim, have a lot to like showing some enjoyable action and gore with the creepy-looking ghosts getting into the action. These all manage to hold this one up as there isn't much wrong here but it does have some minor issues. The main factor against this one is the film's setup that drives it forward which is curiously done in an unconventional matter here. Rather than delve into the group venturing out on their own and coming across the ghosts and spirits by themselves, the film decides to keep everyone in a single room and then bring them out one-by-one to do their mission. This leaves the film to be quite off-putting by having the girls out of action for large sections of time either sitting around doing nothing or focused on the other participants without cutting back to see what they're doing so you almost forget they're there which is a rather distracting way of going about the show. That also brings about the other factor in how this one manages to feel as slow as it does despite being as short as it is. With only the barest glimpses of who the girls are, what they're doing, and the purpose of the visit in the first place, it has so little time to explore anything that it all feels like a blur before moving on to the next featured encounter. With the majority of the girls out of the picture by keeping them confined to the meeting room as this does, it takes a while before getting to some of the performers which is rather disappointing. Combined with the general cheapness on display, these are the few distracting features of this one.

Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

No kidding, this was really bad!! Not even one bit thrilling, and the acting, it sucked as well. I have come to realize now that, if it has Full Moon on it, it will suck!! Now I know, and I will be aware of this fact. Back to this garbage though. Really stupid reality show idea of having these "hot" chicks stay all night in this old halfway house for a million dollars. Really lame acting and really lame "ghouls". Not enough words to describe how bad this sucked!!

I can honestly say that this is the worst movie I've ever seen.

No real story, no interesting characters, rotten effects, no explanation for what the villains want. At the end I was thinking, 'what was the point?' I have seen other movies I didn't like for one reason or another, but most of them had at least some good points. This has none. It was just a series of death scenes, with no logic or reason. It has a bunch of hooded ghouls running around killing and eating people with nothing on where they came from, why they do what they do etc. It could have been a decent movie done properly, but this was a waste. A complete waste of everything.

Hey, I've got an idea. Let's put five luscious babes in a haunted house and pay the one who lasts $1 million. Oh, we won't waste any time having then undress or anything like that, and we'll include a sex scene that is off camera. It'll be a reality show hit - I guarantee it.

So, we bring in the girls and lock one in the closet, and pour bugs on another, and then the ghosts who inhabit the house will rip them up and we have blood and bones all over the place. They still don't show us anything, and all they basically do is whine and scream.

If you are going to rip off another movie, at least show us something original. Not even scary.

I am a horror movie addict,so I will always spend $4.00 to rent a slice of "horror-cheese",especially something from FULL MOON entertainment. The movies produced by Charles Band (including DollMan & Toxic Avenger) are sure to be bad and sure to make you laugh (at it!).This movie was sooo bad it made me feel sorry for Latex.What happened to the good F/X artists?This movie showcased Raman Noodle.The editing was "Blair Witch" like...it was obvious the director tried too hard to do something so 2 years ago.Of course the acting is among the worst attempts in film history.This movie had 3 decent reasons to get produced- 1)the "reality TV" idea 2)the key in the closet 3)the fact that NO idea gets turned down by anyone submitting a script to Charles Band/FULL MOON entertainment

I'm gonna start on my script now,see you in the midnight features!

I am pro gore, or I would not have rented this movie. I applaud the marketers of this film, for the fact that it was available on DVD at my local video store means that someone made money off of this film. I do not know what full moon was thinking, but this has to be the dullest title ever associated with them. Not campy, not funny, not scary. The first DVD I have rented and felt I should have been PAID to watch.

This movie wasn't bad for a movie of this style and budget. The characters weere all pretty narrowly drawn, but hey... what can be expected? The gore was pretty good. The backstory as to why the house is haunted is all but forgotten as soon as it is introduced, and the kills have NOTHING to do with the violence. This movie is Nowhere near 80 minutes either, it clocks in at 67 minutes by the beginning of the credits. This movie would have been much more effective if it had taken a few more notes from the MTV show Fear, which it seemed very similar to. It was OK, though. All in all a very forgettable movie that is OK to waste a bit of time if you are so inclined. About a four out of ten. Maybe opt for the much more enjoyable $la$her$ if you want a better low budget horror film.

This movie was MUCH better than I expected it to be. It's not an Oscar worthy or even theater-release worthy, but for a direct-to-video horror flick, I found it quite entertaining. The concept is very well done. A desperate producer has an idea for a new reality television show in which 5 hot babes, for lack of a better term, try to survive a night in a reportedly haunted insane asylum. The one who survives will win a million dollars. Sound familiar yet? It doesn't take much guess work to figure out the rest of the plot: the asylum is indeed possessed by the spirits of the previous owners dead wives (a background story that I found quite creative and interesting in itself) and the begin to kill off the girls and producers in some pretty bloody, gruesome ways. I found the whole approach of seeing a lot of what happens through each of the girls cams like we were actually watching the show very effective, especially since at the bottom of the screen it says "Amber-Cam" or "Marti-Cam" when each of the characters go out to complete their tasks. Overall, a very well done little film that should entertain the majority of the horror fans out there. You could do much much worse with other films that have even higher budgets! Just remember that you are viewing a direct-to-video film, then sit back and enjoy!

My 15 year old daughter said its fear factor while watching this movie was a 1 out of 10, but after it was over it climbed to a 4 out of 10.

I don't know if that means anything, but that is what she said about this low budget b movie.

These movies are not about the story, they are about the gore.

This one tried hard to be gory but that was some of the worse(but entertaining )gore effects I have ever seen. The character having her stomach eaten by the apparitions? It looked like wool and red goo was just placed on her stomach and the apparitions merely moved it around.

The fire place scene? The bones that dropped out of the girl after she was pulled up were all femurs, she had FOUR of them !! Still, it was pretty fast paced, in your face bad and campy so I can't help myself...I recommend it!

Little plot, little acting, lots of fun.