Hellroller is extremely cheap, totally trashy and utterly insane, like the crappiest Troma movie you've ever seen, only much more inept. It makes Street Trash look like a mega-budget blockbuster. Manos: The Hands of Fate is a masterpiece of cinema by comparison. The film is down there with the likes of z-grade clunkers Maniac Nurses and Blood Theatre. If you actively seek out really bad films, you've hit the mother lode with Hellroller - it doesn't get much worse than this.
Talking of Blood Theatre, that film's star, Mary Woronov, is in Hellroller too, but she wisely hides behind the pseudonym of Penny Arcade. Scream queen Michelle Bauer is in the film as well; she's done hardcore adult films, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if she was more embarrassed about being in this one.
The film stars Ron Litman as wheelchair-bound street bum Eugene, whose frustration and rage at his situation leads him to become a serial killer, his victims being those more fortunate than himself: the healthy, the wealthy and the beautiful. As if the idea of a killer in a wheelchair wasn't dumb enough, the film throws in all manner of other crazy characters, including siamese twin sex attackers, a bum king, female muggers, a mad scientist, and a supermodel, played by Bauer, who does aerobics in her underwear and takes long, soapy baths.
Writer, director, and cinematographer Gary J. Levinson clearly has no idea what he is doing: his script is awful, the acting is amateurish, the gore effects are cheap and unconvincing, and the film looks terrible, with grainy, blurry, badly lit imagery and cheap and nasty visual effects. He even manages to make gratuitous nudity boring.
Since I'm not a shill, my rating is 1/10. Hellroller is definitely a one-of-a-kind experience - but it's also definitely crap.
