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HottWwjdIam There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

gorywon If you want to see this movie about a serial killer in a wheelchair, you'll have to hunt it down, but it's a search that I found well worth my time. I've been wanting to see "Hellroller" for years, and I finally found a used copy in a video store, and grabbed it. Where do I begin? Most films are ripoffs of other films, or sequels, or remakes. "Hellroller" is original, a serial killer in a wheelchair, outlandish to be sure, but original, and very well made. Despite its low budget, or maybe because of it, this movie has almost a documentary feel to it, as the crippled hero, or maybe antihero? wreaks havoc on the world of "normals." He's mad at the world, but especially at beautiful women, and he slaughters some of the most beautiful women in movie history, including Michelle Bauer, who gets naked in a bathtub, Elizabeth Kaitan, and porn superstar, Hyapathia Lee, in the best shower death-scene ever. The killings are extremely graphic, and shown in every blood-soaked detail. The carnage includes disembowelment, impalement, amputation, and ironing-to-death. The makeup effects are among the very best I've ever seen. I've watched "Hellroller" three times so far, and that doesn't include watching some of my favorite scenes over and over again. The director of "Hellroller" has a pretty lengthy resume, as a producer, and as an actor in "Shock Waves," "Evil Spawn," "Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers," "Cannibal Hookers," "Modern Girls," "Armed Response" among others. "Hellroller" even has redneck Siamese twins! I'm not making this up. It's worth hunting this classic down.

yraggx I stumbled on "Hellroller" in the cult section of a video store. The box was amazing, so I figured I'd check it out. I'd heard of this movie, and the plot, a serial killer in a wheelchair, is definitely unique. I wasn't dissapointed. It starts out fast, and is non-stop, one beautiful chick after another getting slaughtered by the wheelchair killer, who does them in in lots of weird ways, like spearing two at once, ironing to death, disembowelment, mouth-stabbing and more. In between the killings, Michelle Bauer and porno-star Hyapatia Lee get naked. Unlike many big-budget movies, "Hellroller" has no filler at all--it's non-stop from beginning to end. It's incredibly original, a very sick horror classic, with amazing makeup effects. It's one of a handful of my favorite horror films that I have to watch over and over again. This one is worth tracking down, especially with the amazing cast that includes Mary Woronov, Elizabeth Kaitan, Ruth Collins, and Johnny Legend.

Kastore ***SLIGHT SPOILERS*** For the better part of two years now, I have been hunting for the worst horror movie ever made. First, I thought it was "The Crawlers" (aka "Troll 3"). Then, I though it was "Horror House on Highway Five", which left "The Crawlers" in the dust in terms of sheer badness. But now I have seen the light, and I recognize the fact that the Absolute Worst Horror Movie Ever Made is "Hellroller".First of all, I'm stumped as to what this thing was actually shot on. It's not film, but it doesn't look like video either. All of the visual effects anybody can do with a standard camcorder and home computer film editor. And it's chock-full of bad blaxploitation-style editing, where it's painfully obvious that a scene was shot at two or more completely different times, and the actors are not in the same place from one shot to the next.The movie itself is about a wheelchair-bound homeless maniac with a bad twitch who wants to get revenge on the 'beautiful people'. I'm all but convinced that most of the cast was played by actual bums and prostitutes, which explains why some of the acting seems actually to be good because the people are just playing themselves. The murder scenes are nothing but laughable, the best being when the 'Hellroller' rams a blunt stick straight through two prostitutes' chests. The opening scene involves a flashback to the Hellroller's childhood when his crackwhore mother gets raped and killed by Siamese twin rednecks (you can probably guess how the twins' 'effect' was done). On top of that, the rest of the movie is supposed to be 20 or so years after that, but the Siamese rednecks are still alive and are servants to another character called 'The King of Bums'. The same actor who plays 'The King of Bums' also plays a mad doctor whom the Hellroller hires to invent a potion that turns ordinary people into bums (I swear I'm not making this up). Hellroller then somehow poisons LA's entire bottled water supply (not tap water, only bottled water because that is what the rich people drink), upon which everyone - even the newsanchors at KRAP 69 - amazingly transform into bums. On top of all this, the movie also includes two extended mindless scenes of a woman (Michelle Bauer) doing aerobics and another woman dancing alone in her room, apparently added in order to push the movie's length past the one hour mark.But that's it. Right here and right now, I announce that my search for the worst horror movie ever made is over, because it is "Hellroller". There still might be a worse movie than this one somewhere out there, but I don't think I have the will to find it, or even to watch it. I'm afraid that if I ever see a movie worse than "Hellroller", it would cause me to lose all the rest of my faith in humanity.

Caine-2 Finally, the first film I would recommend to Adolf Hitler, or for that matter, anyone guilty of committing heinous crimes.Forget death sentences. We should make convicts watch this film over and over again. Maybe that way, the crime rate in this country would lower.This makes my list of the five worst films ever made. Love that two-headed redneck.