FRIGHT FEST is yet another low budget horror film which early on takes the form of a mindless gore fest and never really develops from there. Annoying and underwritten characters work their way through a nonsensical and uninteresting plotline which is really an excuse to stage one kill scene after another. As usual violent prisoners go on the rampage to bump off anyone they come across, and particular care has been taken to deliver prosthetic effect after prosthetic effect. But if you're looking for any kind of filmmaking quality whatsoever then you've come to the wrong place.

A horror film director called Spencer Crowe is roped in to creating a Halloween Fright Fest at a former mental asylum, but when two escaped real life psychos show up the killing is for real. Horrible movie. Not a single interesting character, its attempts at humour just did not work for me, there is quite a high body count but lacks any memorable kills and towards the end I was yawning my head off. The single significant black character turns out to be a drug dealer and the killer wears a spooky mask and brandishes a chainsaw, how much more unoriginal can it get? In better hands this had potential but ultimately just a poor slasher movie, there are plenty of other and much better Halloween films to chose from.

I have read some reviews saying this is an excellent spoof on B movie horrors, it fails at everything. It is not funny, it is not a horror it is beyond boring. The script is basic, the special effects below average, acting is awful I was conscious that everyone was acting, it looked like they were reading autocues. The production values awful, when the lad who had his figures cut off was having them bandaged you could see his clenched fist, the people electrocuted lowered themselves to the floor. There was no buy in the characters as everyone was tissue thin. This was an awful depicting a loony killing people a waste of 90 minutes.