i really have to ask myself what i expect from a movie that have ron pallilio from welcome back kotter a the male lead sex symbol . not much and i guess and that exactly what i get . not much . when i pop the dvd of hellgate on i realize less than five minute into it that i have see this movie over ten year ago . you do not forget act this bad . so the movie start with three friend wait for their fourth friend matt ( horseshack . ) to show up at their vacation spot . they while away the time tell ghost story . one girl deadpans the tale of the legend of hellgate and which be apparently the next town over . in a flashback we see an attempted rape go bad that happen in hellgate in the 50 . a bunch of no good nick bikers be at the malt shop and they decide to grab the big cheese mayor of hellgate daughter josie and drive away with her . none of the town folk try to stop them . they drive josie to a secluded area and rip her skirt off and josie run around in black underwear and bobby sock and sneaker look like she should be do an 80 aerobics video . ( i swear they hire abigail wolcott to play josie because she have nice leg . she even strike pose while be carry away and rap . ) well and her father who be a dead ringer for gomez addams come to rescue her and in the process josie get ice . later on a guy in a mine find a strange crystal that have the power to reanimate dead thing . here be where the cheesy special effect ( do by the people who do the effect in hellraiser and hellbound the box trumpet . ) debut a we see a very fake look bat and a very fake look fish and a very fake look turtle spring back to murderous mutant life . ( the turtle scene be actually pretty funny ) . josie papa go to josie shrine ( even her headstone have breast implant . ) and reserrects josie so she can lure people to the ghost town for him to kill . why . i do not know why . josie pick up horseshack on the side of the road and seduce him . the seduction scene be a laugh riot . the music be insane . and i have never realize what a bad actor horseshack be until i saw this represent even his sex scene be unconvincing . and he a pretty small guy . when he lie in bed with josie naked he so small compare to her that he look like a doll . hahaha . matt meet up with his friend and drag them to hellgate . why . i do not know . but they go . and of course they run afoul some zombie ghost town people who chase them around and try to kill them . josie fall in love with matt for reason unknown and matt girlfriend be not amuse . will matt stay with the living dead girl or go home with his plain jane girlfriend . or will the zombie and john astin doppelganger kill him . hellgate be a terrible film all the way around with bad act and bad script and bad special effect and etc . but there be something funny about it that keep me watch so if you like bad movie like i do you might actually find some entertainment in watch hellgate . i will watch it again one day just to watch josie strike strange vogue like pose and a dead turtle bite someone face off and to see horseshack in the raw again . comic gold all three . speaking of bad movie and if you be lucky you will get the two disc set that not only have hellgate but also have the pit . the pit be even funny than hellgate and a real laugh riot . so check that one out . peace .