Party Bus to Hell

The film is filled with poorly filmed nudity, to make up for the fact it has no plot. Sadie Katz is the only actor who is tolerable in the film. The other acting is just deplorable. But, can you blame the actors? The script is worse than the acting. Comedy where it shouldn't be, cliche after cliche after cliche. Clearly the filmmakers thought if we fill this up with nudity and perversion it will sell. Worst film this year.

One of the worst indie efforts Party bus to hell is best avoided unless you have a fetish for watching naked woman being killed- which is something you can find in much better movies anywhere. This film is an absolute abomination and a waste of time, energy and money. (Avoid at all costs)

Was drawn into seeing 'Party Bus to Hell', with a cool poster/cover, an intriguing premise and as someone with a general appreciation for the genre it fits under. That it was low-budget, which from frequent personal experience is rarely a good sign due to that there are so many poor ones out there (though there are decent to good ones as well), made me though apprehensive.

It is sadly however yet another film seen recently, hence some reiteration because the exact same strengths and flaws present in those films are here, that to me was incredibly disappointing considering its potential which it doesn't do anywhere near enough with. 'Party Bus to Hell' is really quite abominable, with so many huge flaws and doesn't do anywhere near enough with its potential, which was quite a good deal. There is nothing good here in 'Party Bus to Hell', just amateur hour all round.

Going on to the negatives, the story does feel over-stretched and some of it comes over as vague and under-explained in the last third where the film especially became duller, more predictable, more senseless and less unsettled and never gaining momentum. All the characters are too sketchy and with cardboard thin and colourless personalities and with nowhere near enough to make one want to endear to them. Their annoying and illogical decision making and behaviours frustrates. The chemistry is bland and unfocused.

The sound quality is obvious and utilised cheaply (being too loud in the build ups and people's reactions), the effects are laughable and all of the acting is lacking severely on the whole, that's actually an understatement as the worst of it is horrendous. There is no sense of horror or engagement with the awful predicament they're in, and no connecting with the character, it just reeks of indifference which makes the viewer not care less too. Lead actress Tara Reid is the epitome of all of the above.

Dialogue can be stilted and rambling while the pace and film drags on forever, apparent from the very start, never recovering that interest is lost fast. The ending has no build-up and just ends ridiculously. Found too many of the supposedly shocking moments not surprising or scary and the atmosphere dreary, due to the excessive obviousness, a lot of dumb and vague moments and explanations and the lack of tension and suspense. Thrills are none, thanks to stodginess and excessive over-familiarity, and found myself never invested in the drama, which tended to be indifferently acted, interminably paced and statically directed.

A lot of 'Party Bus to Hell' has really dull and going nowhere plot elements and often nonsensical and confusing character motivations, while too many of the things to make you shocked are far from creative or unsettling. It all feels rather mean-spirited. Anything included to attempt to spice things up, namely the nudity, is overused and abused, most of the time to a pointless degree.

Nothing freaky or interesting, no development and too derivative, while everything is unimaginative and are more odd than scary, completely failing to show any sense of dread. There is nothing interesting or illuminating with what the film was trying to do and the drama is overwrought with no momentum and a lot of weirdness. The direction is leaden, got the sense their heart was not in it, and the music is ill-fitting. 'Party Bus to Hell' is very amateurish visually, making one feel nauseous and actually did feel a headache coming on. Especially the lighting, epileptics need to be aware of the headache-inducing overuse of flickering. The editing is some of the worst ever with more continuity errors than one can count.

Altogether, irredeemably terrible. 1/10 Bethany Cox

The performances are okay for the most part. Tara Reid (American Pie 1999, Sharknado film series) gets top billing, but then so did Bryan Cranston in 2014's Godzilla. She is not that great, though her moment stands out. It is a little harder picking out the Aaron Taylor-Johnson of the piece though. The survivors are played fine, but they are kind of bland beyond their quirks. Alan (Richard Hochman: Everyone Wants Theirs series, Tide Waters 2014) is the jerk who takes charge. Reese (ViDonna Michaels: The Beautiful Life series, Clean Break 2007) is the put-upon girlfriend of the cowardly Warren (Ben Stobber: The Immortal Wars series, Ten Violent Women Two 2017), Ivy (Shelby McCullough: Classacts 2018) is the lesbian, etc.

This movie is not just terrible it is terribly terrible. Tara Reid is in it for like one minute which is too bad because even though she is terrible she is still the best actor in this. The movie is pointless, very cheap looking, with cheap sound. Not even the boobs can make this movie worth watching, there are a billion better movies if you just want to see boobs where there is also a plot that is not incredibly boring and there are jokes that are actually funny. The entire plot could be about two minutes long, no kidding. Just terribly done from start to finish. Seriously how bad does a movie and the boobs have to get before guys watching it get bored of looking at the boobs and turn it off? That actually happened here. Guys got bored of these boobs. This movie is so terrible.