User Reviews

This is a genuine zombie movie, it's heartless, soulless and witless, it's born dead. To create a movie as bad as this you need a perfect team. You need a TV editor who's basic qualification is knowing what's been successful in the USA. She sees a "Scary Movie", says "I want one of those" to a generic network writer who has already proved that he's a pro and would never use any idea that hadn't been tested over and over again. Originality is for amateurs.

Next you'll need a director who'd never spoil such a perfect script with creativity. And stereotype actors like Axel Stein who is the ugly fat guy - very funny, isn't it? - and delivers a lot of farts. Get rid of everybody who doesn't think that's just hilariously funny. There are ways of testing this, you know?

This movie is a safety zone for everybody who thinks that laughter and giggles are disgusting noises. It won't happen here. If you are morbidly afraid of laughter, but appreciate a very, very moderate level of suspense, then this is the movie for you. Once or twice it looked like something would turn out a little bit funny, but all the guys involved really are pros, they know how to kill a joke.

If you actually like comedy, you should definitively stay away from this. It's sheer horror to watch those butchers of comedy at work.

Some things are strange though. This movie is made for Pro7, a TV station that belongs to the biggest German TV network and is specialized in American movies and comedy shows like Simpsons, Scrubs, HIMYM. They could have stolen contemporary ideas by just watching their own program. Humour has changed since the days of Monty Pythons and Zucker, even though the "Scary Movies" themselves seem to prove me wrong here.

They spoof the "Evil Dead" movies that due to strict German restrictions concerning evil violence are quite unknown to the average Pro7 viewer. They've never been on TV, hardly ever been in the cinemas, it's even tough to get the DVDs. From other horror movies they just use set pieces like the mask of Jason, Michael Myers' name, the chain saw of Leatherface, the puppet from "Saw", the "Hostel" sign, but from the "Evil Dead" they actually use a bit of the storyline, turning it into the centerpiece. That's very fitting after all. This movie is not only dead, it's evil. For wholesome laughs you should watch "Evil Dead 2" instead.

Well... Germans trying to spoof American horror movies? Yes, you're absolutely right - this can only go wrong! Even two of the most successful German comedians, Axel Stein and Christian Tramitz, can't save this piece of ... (here you may enter any deprecating term you like) from failing badly. And these two guys REALLY have potential... but it seems wasted here. Poor acting, poor dialogs, poor make-up and so on... Try to imagine Jigsaw, Jason, a bunch of Zombies and a kid with a pumpkin-head all together in one flick trying to be funny... once again you're absolutely right - this is a disaster and not funny at all! What are these guys at RatPack arrogating? Even Hollywood itself failed in various attempts of such productions. Avoid this and take any of the "Scary Movie"-series instead.

"H3 - Halloween Horror Hostel" is a cheap TV parody on "Halloween", "Saw", "Friday 13th", "Hostel" etc. - also a quick reference to "The Ring" was made along the way. I said "cheap" meaning both "low budget" as well as "no serious effort made". A few good jokes and a lot of lame ones, but at the length of just 70 minutes still easy to sit through. The best line is when the owner of the hostel returns: "He was a serial killer! We're damn lucky he is turned into a zombie now!" Out of the frying pan, into the fire! The joke with both arms cut off ("oh, just a little flesh wound, never mind") goes back to Monty Python's brave knight, of course. So, very little new to see, just a quick rehash of familiar blueprints to fill an hour and a half (including advertising breaks) in the late night program. Check this out if you think Fred Olen Ray doesn't make good movies.

All the movies of the "ProSieben Funny Movie" series are so unpleasant that it hurts, so boring the hypnotic becomes superfluous and so infantile that I had to read three Mark Twain novels to make up for my loss (and overall not funny). But I actually liked this one.

Maybe it's because of the small bar that I have presented, maybe it's because I do not like horror films and comedies and this film pulls both neatly through the dirt, maybe it's because you make the whole innuendo in this movie a good drinking game could or maybe it's because H3 is the only part that really comes close to a movie.

I must honestly say he liked it and I would look at it again maybe it's just a Guilty Pleasure but I had fun I actually laughed a few times and I was interested in how it goes on may need German to really appreciate it but that's not the first movie where cultural differences affect the movie experience.