Helltown

This showed up in my hulu recommendations on a chilly Sunday morning and it looked interesting. I watched more than half before I stopped it to do some research on Boston, OH. I learned that this film is mostly fictional. Very little of what is depicted in this film is factual and everyone "interviewed" is an actor. If you go into it knowing that, maybe you will enjoy for what it is. But i felt that both the film and Travel Channel pass it off as a legit documentary, making it a total waste of time in my opinion. I regret watching this.

Soooo fake. Insults one's intelligence. How did this even make it to TV? You can do better, Travel Channel!

I moved to Northeast Ohio back in 1995 and when this "documentary" came on today, I'd wondered why I'd never heard most of these stories. I knew where Boston Township was, but had never heard of it being called "Helltown." So while I was watching it, I began looking things up on the internet. I became really suspicious when the supposed professor at Tri-C pronounced Cuyahoga "Coy-uh-hoe-guh." The more I researched, I finally found out this entire film is made up. The ONLY truth is that the government did start buying up homes in that location in 1974. It was to create Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area, not National Park. It did not get a National Park designation until 2000. The rest is utter BS.

Its slightly watchable for comedic purposes. The "facts" are 99% made up. Living close to the area, knowing the truth and seeing this touted as truth is very frustrating.

I can't believe I wasted 2 hours and countless brain cells watching this 2nd rate "Blair Witch" .