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• Hell's Ground on DVD (2007)
  Starring: Ashfaq Bhatti,  Sultan Billa,  Osman Khalid Butt
  Director: Omar Khan
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  The ‘first Pakistani splatter flick’ tag has garnered Hell's Ground some turned heads as well as some raised eyebrows. It’s a shame the actual film doesn’t do quite enough to deserve the attention.
  
  The by now prerequisite gender troubling is in place (the ‘monster’ is a man in a burqa, the heroine makes it to the end via an act of extreme brutality) but the film has no new spin on it. Indeed the film as a whole feels like no more than a retread of the entire 70’s/early 80’s horror lexicon: take some Evil Dead, add a generous helping of Texas Chain Saw Massacre and season with Night of the Living Dead.
  
  That said, spotting the references is half the fun and the whole project is realised with an evident enthusiasm which is infectious. Whilst the most revolutionary aspect of the film is that it came from Pakistan at all - and an excellent short documentary in the special features delves into the difficulties the filmmakers had attempting to get it released in their own country - that should not exclude seasoned gore hounds from giving this a look.
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