Episode 330: Hell's Ground and Altered Skin

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Two movies from Pakistan in this episode, all prompted by Ollie Eats Brains who had just discovered Altered Skin but hadn't seen it. Taking a look into it further Pakistan doesn't have too many horror movies and the list of zombie movies is even thinner on the ground. They do have their own webseries version of The Walking Dead called Zombistan but I am here for the movies.

After a bit of research, i.e. I googles Pakistani zombie movies, I got two, these two so decided to watch them both.

The idea for both of these movies is that the pharma and chemical companies through corruption in government just dump their waste into the waterways and the horrors that follow.

Hell's Ground is a 2007 gore fest apparently that tells the story of 5 teenagers from Karachi that bunk school to head to a concert and end up lost in the woods and preyed on by zombies and a family of psychopaths. It is widely classed as Pakistan's first gory movie.

And it was alright. We see people demonstrating about the water quality and it causing zombies that look like they have leprosy as the groovy gang of Roxi, Ash, Simon, OJ and Vicky get lost in the woods whilst stoned. Simon is bitten and one by one they end up running into the darkness for one reason or another and are preyed upon by a spiked ball and chain wielding psychopath and his family. So, it all gets a bit Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

5/10

And Altered Skin was just dull. It was a conspiracy story with investigative journalists getting kidnapped and murdered, as an American ex-pat tries to find the truth to why he wife is in a coma. My interpretation of what the zombies could be was more interesting than the movie itself and other than about 8 minutes of chase scenes and a final battle, the most poster was the best thing about this one.

3/10