Zibahkhana

okay,loll this movie is hilarious if you have like 78 minutes that you want to spend enjoying an amateur somewhat funny and yet very predictable movie than watch hells ground, i actually liked the actor's since they are not professionals but kids from local colleges and high school, they did pretty well considering they had no prior background in acting.Also the gore is the bloodiest and freshest i have ever seen! all in all it's a typical Desi horror production with a 70's flare,hint of political issues and lots of funny and gory scenes,also it's a first attempt by Omar khan (director) and the movie is made with a very limited budget. yet it has all the elements of a regular zombie teenage flick. I enjoyed watching it ,and i say go for it!

For once the advert on the sleeve of the DVD is correct, the bloodiest flick coming out of Pakistan. I enjoyed it from the beginning until the end. Even as it is spoken in Pakistanese and here and there some English it was watchable.

The story of course we have seen a thousand times. 5 friends want to go to a concert without the agreement of their parents but they never arrive at the concert. They arrive in zombieland and not only that, a creepy killer is also on the lose.

I can't say anything negative about Zibahkhana which in fact means 'slaughterhouse'. The acting was rather good, editing was okay. naturally the director looked to the classic horrors to know what to do. It worked out fine. Maybe it's a bit funny to see the deranged killer walking in a burkha. But why you kept looking is the use of some nasty gory shots. It's strange to see for a conservative country that such kind of flick could be made. Guess it was banned over there.

It do has a proper release nowadays all over Europe with subtitles in a few languages. A bit of a no- brainer but recommended for the horror buffs and even the gorehounds.

Gore 3/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 4/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

Hell's Ground, promoted as Pakistan's first gore film, is a co-production from cult UK DVD label Mondo Macabro, who specialise in finding and releasing cinematic oddities from around the world, and Pakistan's Bubonic Films. Knowing that it was designed specifically to appeal to fans of obscure movies does detract from its appeal slightly—after all, cult films should be found, not made to order—but even if this had not been the case, I still doubt that Hell's Ground would have earned itself a permanent place on my shelf of splatter favourites.

The story, by the film's director Omar Khan, is a somewhat muddled affair, encompassing ecological issues, zombie horror, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre inspired backwoods terror; the pacing of the film is poor, the action taking an age to get going and ending up as a repetitive succession of chase scenes through a jungle; the characters are simply Asian versions of those seen in an average American slasher—the attractive good girl, the sexy rich bitch, the nice guy, the stoner and the film geek; and as for the blood and guts... well, there is some but it's not all that impressive.

Whilst I dig the fact that different nationalities and diverse cultures can be united by a common love for horror, I would love for the next gore film to come out of Pakistan to be a little less influenced by the west, and to live up to its promise of outrageous excessive splatter.

5.5 out of 10, generously rounded up to 6 for IMDb.

A BIG THANKS to Mr. Omar Ali Khan for making Zibahkhana. I was fortunate enough to find it on YouTube.

The tale is fairly simple at heart. A group of students (heavily resembling die-hard punk and rock fans) go out to attend a music concert. They happen to take a detour but are seriously misguided and end up at a place that is more or less like a zombie land. The dwellers have hideously deformed bodies due to constant consumption of water from a nearby pool that's polluted by chemicals. They manage to save themselves and get caught up in something even worse. But wait! There is something that puts 'Zibahkhana' miles ahead of the other flicks of the slapstick genre....IT'S SCARY!

Based on my observations, I have following things to say.

The movie is gruesome to the core.

The movie has all the elements of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, Dawn of the Dead, Cabin Fever and is a perfect slasher that uses the same staple to induce horror that Halloween and the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre used. Fear of the unknown.

The film is heavily inspired by the heavy rock era of 70s. Its common for the youngsters to get stoned and find themselves miles away from their destination. Alone in the dark!

It builds tension step by step and divulges itself to be one of the best horror movies to find place in heart and mind for a long-long time.

'Zibahkhana' is capable enough to ensue cult-following. Believe me, that's the impression I've got.

It is quite an indigenous creation, hailing directly from Pakistan and I am sure in course of time we will have many good flicks like Zibahkhana from innovative Pakistani directors.

I think that the Indian scare whimper directors like R.K. Khanna, R. Mittal, K.I. Sheikh, Jeetendra Chawda etc. should learn something from this movie, because B-grade horror is almost dead in India and is looking for a messiah to revive it once again.

As we get ready for another Fantastic Fest in Austin and the worldwide release of Lesbian Vampire Killers, we explore the film that won Best Gore at last year's Fest - a Pakistani zombie flick! We won't need to talk about actors, as we have not likely seen any of them, so we will focus on the story. Suffice it to say that three young men and two women lied to their parents to travel to a concert.

Just as you are a fool to leave the highways in Texas and travel the back roads, you need to avoid shortcuts in Pakistan. This Lollywood zombie flick is a throwback to the way zombies are supposed to be - very slow, and munching on brains and guts after a kill. It featured gut munching that would fit well in any cannibal flick.

Of course our travellers don't know that their friend O.J. (Osman Khalid Butt) who was bitten will change. The film just keeps getting freakier and freakier.

The film switches from zombies to Texas Chainsaw Massacre as a slasher in a burka appears. Poor Vicky (Kunwar Ali Roshan); he is now being dismembered and blood is flowing everywhere. Roxy (Rubya Chaudhry) wanders in and is now being chased by the burka-wearing killer, who doesn't have a chainsaw, and has to use a spiked ball on a chain.

That ball sure made a mess of Simon's (Haider Raza) face; now only the girls are left. It appears the local villagers will have lots of meat on the table for a while.

It appears no one will survive these woods.

The gore was good and one hopes for more from Omar Khan