hellgate start late one night in a isolated log cabin where three friend chuck ( even j. klisser ) and bobby ( joanne ward ) and pam ( petrea curran ) be tell scary urban legend story to each other . bobby start hers and she tell a tale set in the 50 about a nearby public attraction the authentic replica ghost town of hellgate own by lucas carlyle ( carel trichardt ) . a gang of bikers know a the stranger kidnap and kill his daughter josie ( abigail wolcott ) and lucas be obviously devastate . soon after a guy name jonas ( victor melleney ) be attack by a bat in a mine which he kill and he then notice a strange blue crystal which shoot a blue laser beam at the bat which return to life . jonas tell lucas who decide to use the crystal to bring his daughter back to life who then lure unsuspecting traveller to hellgate for reason i do not really know so lucas can kill them for reason that be never satisfactorily explain . a bobby tell the somewhat lame story they have a fourth friend name matt ( ron pilillo ) on his way to join them and however while drive he stop to offer a pretty young woman a lift home . direct by william a. levey and who also appear in the film a the severed head in the fridge and i though hellgate be crap . the script by michael orourke be really silly and lame . while it try to be different the whole thing be so absurd that it fall flat on it face . it move along at a fair pace but doesn not really interest and grip or entertain . thing be never explain properly and it doesn not seem to have any rule and why do the crystal mutate somethings and make them explode . what the hell be this crystal and why do it have magical power . why do it re animate josie perfectly without any side effect . why do it melt jonas . why do lucas kill everyone . he have his daughter back so what do he get out of it . why do everyone else who be kill come back a zombie . be it the crystal again and if so why be they rotten and not perfect . the climax be lame and underwhelming to say the least and let hope the suggested sequel never materialise . this be pretty awful stuff from start to finish with horrible character that be dumb and unlikable and deserve everything that come to them . director levey mess everything up and there be no style and tension and atmosphere or scare and the best he can muster be blue neon lighting and lot of fake fog swirl around . the special effect be pretty cheap look and tacky and that mutant goldfish for instance . the gore be tame and an axe in the head and a knife in a leg and a decapitation and someone face melting and a few zombie that do not do anything . there a bit of nudity and sex but not enough to save it . technically hellgate be pretty poor and it be film in south africa apparently not that you would notice . the entire production be cheap and the ghost town itself be one street and the special effect be unimpressive especially that laser beam effect and a a whole no one seem to put much effort in it . the acting be predictably bad and trichardt a the villain have some silly plate on his face and for some reason never say anything during the film . hellgate be a really bad 80 horror film that have little to recommend it and it different and that the only positive thing i can say about it . a stupid mess of a film and one to avoid .