A motorcycle gang kidnaps a young woman, Josie, from a diner and brutally kills her. Many years later, the girl's father finds a magic crystal that can bring the dead back to life and uses i... Read allA motorcycle gang kidnaps a young woman, Josie, from a diner and brutally kills her. Many years later, the girl's father finds a magic crystal that can bring the dead back to life and uses it to re-animate his daughter. He lets her seduce any young men who visit the small town--H... Read allA motorcycle gang kidnaps a young woman, Josie, from a diner and brutally kills her. Many years later, the girl's father finds a magic crystal that can bring the dead back to life and uses it to re-animate his daughter. He lets her seduce any young men who visit the small town--Hellgate--then kills them. Four young students, two boys and two girls, spend a vacation ne... Read all
- Bobby
- (as Joanne Ward)
- Buzz
- (as Frank Notard)
- Jonas
- (as Victor Mellaney)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe LIFE magazine on the sheriff's table was published October 1987 with the headline: Margret Thatcher on dealing with Gorbachev and, too, in its top right corner has the pictures of Ronald Reagan, Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter and Richard M. Nixon with the title: Four presidents on the future of America.
- GoofsAs the bike gang ride through HellGate for the first time, the aerial-footage shows a building, to the left, with no roof which is an empty shell.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Road to Perdition, B-Movie Style: William A. Levey on Hellgate (2014)
- SoundtracksIt Happened Today
Written by J. Rock, J. Beaumont & The Skyliners
Performed by The Skyliners
Published by Bonnyview Music / Southern Music Co., Inc.
Later on a guy in a mine finds a strange crystal that has the power to reanimate dead things. Here is where the cheesy special effects ("done by the people who did the effects in Hellraiser and Hellbound " the box trumpets!) debut as we see a very fake looking bat, a very fake looking fish and a very fake looking turtle spring back to murderous mutant life. (The turtle scene is actually pretty funny). Josie's papa goes to Josie's shrine (even her headstone has breast implants!) and reserrects Josie so she can lure people to the ghost town for him to kill. Why? I don't know why! Josie picks up Horseshack on the side of the road and seduces him. The seduction scene is a laugh riot! the music is insane! And I had never realized what a bad actor Horseshack is until I saw this: Even his sex scenes are unconvincing! And he's a pretty small guy. When he's lying in bed with Josie naked he's so small compared to her that he looks like a doll! Hahaha! Matt meets up with his friends and drags THEM to Hellgate . Why? I don't know. But they go. And of course they run afoul some zombie ghost town people who chase them around and try to kill them. Josie falls in love with Matt for reasons unknown and Matt's girlfriend is not amused.
Will Matt stay with the living dead girl or go home with his plain Jane girlfriend? Or will the zombies and John Astin's doppelganger kill him? Hellgate is a terrible film all the way around with bad acting, bad script, bad special effects, etc. but there was something FUNNY about it that kept me watching so if you like bad movies like I do you might actually find some entertainment in watching HELLGATE. I will watch it again one day just to watch Josie strike strange Vogue-like poses, a dead turtle bite someones face off and to see Horseshack in the raw again. Comic gold all three!
Speaking of bad movies, if you are lucky you will get the two disc set that not only has Hellgate but also has The Pit. The Pit is even funnier than Hellgate, a real laugh riot! So check that one out! Peace!
- mamamiasweetpeaches
- Dec 2, 2007
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- En las puertas del infierno
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- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1