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Hell (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)

Stipe Erceg , Michael Kranz , Tim Fehlbaum  |  R |  DVD
3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)

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Product Details

  • Actors: Stipe Erceg, Michael Kranz, Hannah Herzprung
  • Directors: Tim Fehlbaum
  • Format: Blu-ray, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Widescreen
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Rated: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: Arc Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: August 21, 2012
  • Run Time: 84 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0084NZESS
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #140,251 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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It was once the source of life, light and warmth. But now the sun has turned the entire world into baked and barren wasteland. Forests are scorched. Animal carcasses line the roads. Even the nights are dazzling bright. Marie, her little sister Leonie and Phillip are heading for the mountains in a car with covered windows. Rumor has it there is still water there. Along the way they run into Tom, a first-rate mechanic that becomes indispensible. But can they trust him? Tension grows in the small group. As if things weren´t bad enough, they are lured into an ambush. Their real battle for survival begins...

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Decent, If Not Great, Post-Apocalyptic Thriller September 26, 2012
Format:DVD
The year is 2016. Because of the increasing solar activity, the earth's temperature has become higher by 10 degrees Celsius. The land has dried up and crops have perished. Modern civilization has collapsed and the earth has become an uninhabitable place for humans. Few survivors keep travelling under the scorching sun, looking for water. Two young sisters Marie and Leonie are among them, travelling with a man named Phillip driving around in a dust-covered car.

Executive-produced by Roland Emmerich ("Independence Day" and "2012"), the low-budget post-apocalyptic thriller begins with an interesting premise, but without developing the sci-fi theme, "Hell" quickly shifts into a familiar formula about the travelers and their predicaments in the backwoods. In short, you have seen this in "The Road" or other horror films.

Tim Fehlbaum's direction is slick once action gets started, but details of this catastrophic disaster remain vague at best. The cinematography of the bleak landscape soaked in overflowing light is impressive enough to live up with the film's double-meaning title ("Hell" means in German "bright"), but the effects of the sunshine such as heat and UV exposure are not fully made use of to enhance the film's drama and suspense .

But the real problem of "Hell" is that the characters are not really interesting, including the sisters Marie and Leonie. Why are they travelling alone? Why does she have a CD of Nena's "99 Luftballons"? The film wastes every chance to flesh them out. When the two male characters are less memorable, why should we care? "Zombieland" did it much better.

This is not to say "Hell" is a terrible film, but as a survival thriller or a H.G. Wells-like modern-day fable "Hell" leaves much to be desired, lacking its own voice.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Great post-apocalyptic story September 26, 2012
Format:DVD
With no opportunities to rent this film, besides iTunes, I decided to purchase the film on the strength of the trailer. These days I seem to be a good judge of what I will like based on a trailer.

Hell is a post-apocalyptic film set in the near future 2016. Solar flares have caused mass overheating of our planet laying waste to the environment. With no way to sustain plant or animal life and with natural water supplies all but gone; people will now do anything to survive.

Visually the movie sells the idea the earth is burnt out and desolate. The acting is good, albeit this american version defaults to an over-dubbed english soundtrack. I suggest watching it with subtitles.
For a film like this simplicity is important. All our characters need to do is survive. There are a few little twists and turns that keep it interesting.
Overall a fan of films like this will be more than entertained. And I'm happy to add this film to my collection.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Hell (Bright) (Tim Fehlbaum, 2011)

Hell reminded me a great deal of another, even lower-budget, German film for no real reason I can put my finger on, Jens Wolf's Noctem. While this one has more plot, better acting, and an even bleaker outlook on life, while I was watching it, my mind kept stealing back to Wolf's 2003 effort, which I found quite good given its lack of professional talent both in front of and behind the camera; "a labor of love" is, at least when I use it, often a synonym for "unrepentantly amateur", but Wolf transcended that and came up with something, if not deathless, quite watchable and a good deal of fun. I got that same vibe from Fehlbaum (Nicht Meine Hochzeit)'s second feature, though I rush to add that with both of these films I'm using the word "fun" in a rather loose sense.

Fehlbaum's movie gives us a makeshift family--Tom (Unknown's Stipe Erceg), Marie (The Reader's Hannah Herzsprung), and Leonie (Hanni and Nanni's Lisa Vicari)--living in a post-apocalyptic world where the Earth is moving, ever so slowly, closer to the sun. Being outside without being fully covered is almost instant death. There is no darkness, as we know it, just periods of less light. Tom and co. are making do the way most survivors in this world presumably do--a nomadic existence in a station wagon that contains their earthly possessions, raiding abandoned gas stations for fuel, trying to get to a fabled compound in the mountains where, supposedly, they can settle down. The film's first confrontation comes at an abandoned fuel station, where another drifter, Phillip (Home for the Weekend's Lars Eidinger), attempts to make off with some of their stuff, and instead ends up coming along for the ride. But that's a minor inconvenience compared to what happens when they finally make it to the mountains and find out that yes, the compound does exist--but that they're not taking new applicants...

It's an interesting genre thriller that has pretensions at being more than it is. This is not at all a bad thing, and Fehlbaum, who also co-wrote with longtime partner Oliver Kahl and Anatomy scribe Thomas Wöbke, is to be commended for his ambition. That the movie ultimately fails in those pretensions takes nothing away from its status as a good, solid genre thriller once the core characters get into the mountains and the game of cat-and-mouse begins; if you decide to pop this one into the DVD player, you'll get an entertaining piece of cinema, though little more than that. But oftentimes that's all you need. ***
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3.0 out of 5 stars Decent premise, only fairly executed
They had a good idea: people slowly roasting alive as the sun heats up the earth, and water dries up. Read more
Published 10 days ago by Brad Smith
3.0 out of 5 stars boring movie hell
could have been more action low budget film movie is clear but the acting is poor boring movie wish they would stop making boring movie
Published 1 month ago by mad
5.0 out of 5 stars great movie
5/5 I loved this movie. There is a moment where one of the character's loses respect for another character for being a coward, and that in particular stuck with me. Read more
Published 2 months ago by mkhan195
4.0 out of 5 stars very good sc fi disaster film
this german film is a very well end of the world movie. the acting is good and the story which is basically a car full of people try to get to where water is in the mountains are... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Michael Dobey
4.0 out of 5 stars A Great Post-Apocalyptic Drama/Thriller (3.5/5)
Hell follows a group of survivors as they try to find water and other resources in post-apocalyptic Germany, which has been affected by solar flares that have increased the... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Jonathan
4.0 out of 5 stars Post Apocalyptic German Survivor Tale.
This is a post apocalyptic film set in Germany sometime in the future. The sun has scorched the earth, to the point where the ecology of the planet is falling apart. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Tommy D
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Flick
If you like the "end of time" type movie, this is a good one.
I really enjoyed this one, 90 minutes, in German, dubbed English.
Worth the money.
Published 6 months ago by Stevie
3.0 out of 5 stars Hell
Everybody who likes post apocalyptic movies this is for you. The down side is they made the movie in germany it's not subtitled but the actors speak in german their lips move like... Read more
Published 8 months ago by momuny16
4.0 out of 5 stars Horrible Ending
I saw the trailer for it and wasn't really psyched about the moving being in German so I bought it on DVD b/c it said it had the English version. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Jenn
2.0 out of 5 stars Neither Terrifying nor Suspenseful
More like boring and predictable. The production values were pretty good, as far as the setting and filming goes, but the story line falls flat. The overdubbing is pretty bad, too. Read more
Published 8 months ago by JEA
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