There are so many haunted house attraction based slasher films that it really could have its own sub-genre on this page and Hell Fest is far from the best one. It's watchable but extremely generic, the acting and writing while moderately passable are not particularly engaging and tonally it feels like a throwback to early 2000's teen slasher movies.
While I didn't hate it I'm really at a loss for describing anything memorable about it whatsoever, I've seen this concept done better too many times before, with 2019's Haunt being easily the best one, that is genuinely a very good film but this isn't even up to the B-movie standard of say The Funhouse Massacre (I will happily watch anything with Robert Englund in it). Hell Fest is just about good enough to enjoy.
The premise is the same with every film with this setting,
a group of friends go to a haunted house attraction and find out that not all the scares are fake.
It has no creative kills, there is very little gore and all of the characters are one-dimensional cliche stereotypes, ultimately I feel very little about this movie other than the whole time I was watching it I kept finding myself thinking "this is like Haunt but not very good, why aren't I watching that instead".
It won't feature on my monthly recommendations list that's for sure, seriously go watch Haunt over this.
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