Trampa infernal

I saw this for the first time on 28th sept which is coincidentally the lead actor's (Nacho, the curly mullet hair fella) birthday.

I got pulled into seeing this aft reading some glowing reviews, especially of Coventry n BA_Harrison.

I got disappointed.

The kills r lame, the killer seems to be a big fan of Freddy Krueger n Michael Myers.

One of the redeeming factor is the setting n day time photography.

There r 3 busty babes and a serene lake but we do not get to see any skinny dipping.

We have the regular characters make the usual bad choices. Rather than fleeing away in the van, they stop, go in the wrong way, leaving one babe alone in the van....

Talk about a blast opening, "Trampa Infernal" has the coolest opening credits ever! Guided by musical tones that are perhaps slightly inspired by the legendary "Friday the 13th" theme (Tsh-Tsh-Tsh-Ha-Ha-Ha), the names of the lead players appear on screen split up in giant syllables. Promising intro of a totally obscure Mexican slasher/backwoods survival thriller and it only becomes cooler with every minute that passes. Two extremely competitive and testosterone-overloaded paintball enemies challenge each other to the ultimate showdown in a sleazy bar. According to a newspaper article, there's a savage bear loose in the nearby woods and it already killed multiple of the hunters that tried to catch it. The challenge includes that whoever kills the bear will be declared the ultimate macho hero with the biggest set of balls. Upon arrival, however, it quickly becomes obvious they're not up against a bear but a bewildered and utterly maniacal war veteran with quite an arsenal of weapons in his hideout and numerous combat tricks up his sleeve. After a whole decade of tame and derivative American slashers, this early 90's Mexican effort looks and feels very refreshing and vivid. The formula is simplistic but efficient, the lead characters are plausible enough and the building up towards the confrontations with the sadist killer is reasonably suspenseful. The maniac must have been a fan of Freddy Krueger and Michael Myers, as he also uses a self-made glove with sharp knives attached to it and a white mask to cover his face. The murders are pleasingly nasty and barbaric, which I was really hoping for since the awesome aforementioned opening sequences, and waste a whole lot of gratuitous blood. The forestry setting and particularly the camouflaged booby traps are joyously spectacular. "Trampa Internal" is a Mexican slasher/survival sleeper hit that comes warmly recommended to the fans of the genre.

"Trampa Infernal" is your typical Mexican slasher. Starring Pedrito Fernàndez. In the likes of "Friday the 13th" (which was a highly influential movie for Mèxican Horror), seven campers enter the woods in order to find a bear that has been eating campers. Little do they know that "someone" is lurking in the area just to kill them one by one. Also, in the likes of "The Prowler" the killer slaughters the unfortunate campers in some nice death scenes. Not very gory but still deliver. Who will survive at the end? Could Pedrito save the day? Could it be that his bad hair day means bad luck? How did he know how to fire a rifle?

Watch "Trampa Infernal" for pure entertainment. This is an average slasher flick. The settings are somehow creepy. Mexicans really know how to create creepy atmospheres. The score is not so good but you can't ask for much as many 80's flicks used horrible soundtracks. The acting is okay. Pedrito is always good in his roles. Edith Gonzàlez and Marisol Santacruz look very hot and deliver a good performance. Also, Charly Valentino delivers a horrible, putrid performance but it's Charly Valentino! so he can't do wrong.

The killer is a poor low budget version of Michael Myers and you can't help but feel sorry for him.

Recommended for extremely low budget slashers.

Of course I had never heard about the 1989 Mexican horror movie "Trampa Infernal" (aka "Hell's Trap") prior to sitting down and watching it ere in 2024. I stumbled upon the movie by sheer luck, and seeing it was a horror movie that I hadn't already seen, of course I found the time to sit down and watch it.

Writers Pedro Galindo III and Santiago Galindo, with the former also directing the movie, actually put together a fair enough script and storyline. It was a pretty straightforward story, although it was somewhat generic, but still proved to be a watchable and fairly entertaining movie to watch.

Given my extremely limited exposure to the Mexican cinema, much less late 1980s Mexican cinema, then of course I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list. The acting performances in "Trampa Infernal" were fair.

Visually then the movie was actually okay. It wasn't a movie that had an abundance of special effects on the screen in every single scene, but whatever effects were being used proved to be passable and fair, even by today's standards.

"Trampa Infernal" might worth sitting down to watch if you enjoy slasher horror movies, though you're not in for anything grand here.

My rating of director Pedro Galindo III's 1989 movie "Trampa Infernal" lands on a four out of ten stars.

The classy opening credits to Hell's Trap feature the strong use of large white typography on a jet black background, which initially made me think that this was going to be a pretentious art-house horror; it came as a bit of a (pleasant) surprise, therefore, when the film turned out to be a rather fun Mexican backwoods horror complete with mullet-haired hunks, lovely latino bimbos, and a cool killer sporting a creepy plastic mask and a mean set of Freddy Krueger-style finger blades.

For much of its running time, Hell's Trap comes off a bit like a Spanish-speaking version of The Final Terror: both films use the remote natural environment to deliver plenty of atmosphere, and both film's killers use their familiarity with the surrounding area to allow them to stay hidden from view even when within spitting distance of their next victim.

That said, Hell's Trap proves to be marginally more enjoyable than The Final Terror thanks to director Pedro Galindo III also finding time for some dumb trashy fun along with all the creepy stuff, including a pair of sexy señoritas in revealing swimsuits, bargain basement gore galore, and some ridiculously OTT machine gun action in the explosive finalé.