Hell Fest

Hell Fest is a horror thriller set in a travelling Halloween attraction that pulls into town for the holiday. The park offers mazes, rides and costumed performers whose job is to frighten visitors, and the crowds treat every scream as part of the show. Among the guests are Natalie, her childhood friend Brooke, Brooke's roommate Taylor and their boyfriends, who have come to enjoy the scares together. A masked killer uses the confusion to stalk and murder patrons unnoticed, so the victims' terror blends into the entertainment around them. Natalie is the first to grasp that the danger is genuine and that she and her friends must fight to stay alive among thousands of people who assume it is all staged.

Gregory Plotkin directed, following his earlier Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, with a screenplay by Blair Butler, Akela Cooper and Seth M. Sherwood. Amy Forsyth plays Natalie, alongside Reign Edwards, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Christian James, Roby Attal and Matt Mercurio. Gale Anne Hurd and Tucker Tooley produced.

Made for about 6 million dollars, the film took roughly 18 million worldwide, a solid return on a modest genre budget. Audiences were mixed: on IMDb it holds 5.5/10 from about 21,000 votes and on TMDB 5.7/10 from roughly 896 votes, while the critics' rating stands at 5.1/10 from 66 reviews, slightly below the viewer scores.