Here Comes Hell

My cup of tea! Such a fun watch. It made me laugh and I absolutely loved the evil dead style and old school filming. I didn't mind the acting as I think it fit well for the British hammy horror/comedy that it is.

I took this as a pastiche of some of the funnier or sillier excesses (or even cliches) of older films. And in that regard, it's quite entertaining, and the length means it doesn't outstay its welcome. The music and style remind me far less of Hammer or Amicus, as some comments have said, and much more of the early Carry On. . . pictures and pre-6os low-budget cinema, with the characters feeling more in line with period romantic comedies thrust into a horror scenario, though unfortunately I feel the script lacks the wit of a P. G. Wodehouse or Jane Austen story. That being said, since it's marketed as a horror film and it's available on this platform, I'm going to comment on that. I don't feel it goes far enough. Putting a black-and-white filter over everything isn't close to the same as utilising light and shadow as tools for artistic direction. Many of these developed to contend with the limited capabilities of the technology available. It doesn't really have any genuine scares, and a sharper script or some more daring direction could have made up for the simplistic effects. It feels a bit like the filmmakers were so focused on delivering a (no doubt loving) parodical note that they didn't spend the time they could have on giving the film its own substance and identity beyond that (even "Carry On Screaming" is lauded for its horror comedy despite being largely a parody).

worst movie I've seen on Shudder and that's saying something

This movie is clearly an homage to Evil Dead and they pull it off perfectly. I don't know if some of the incredibly bad effects are intentional or related to the budget, but either way it works to the movie's benefit.

Terrible characters , mostly poor acting and wafer thin plot. Not much here to recommend im afraid