Hell Van: A Low Budget Inferno of Satanic Peril and Devilish Fun!
The small town of Midway Texas is a quiet place. A typical southern American community with families, quirky locals, and a tightly knit police force. All that shit is about to change because the fucking Hell Van is coming to burn your children and run all over innocent people while blasting satanic music. Illuminated in evil red lights and fuelled by the power of lucifer himself.
A local volunteer firefighter and general creepy weirdo August Cash (Justin Cash) is compelled to burn down his local church. It just so happens there are kids trapped inside who are engulfed in flames when he does it.
The local police attempt to apprehend Cash but not before he blows his own face off with a handgun inside his van. The van is then impounded but the evil force that took over Cash now possesses and controls the van. There is a DJ named Eve (Meredith Hillard) who is broadcasting over the airwaves which may be evoking the evil in the van. DJ Eve serves as commentator throughout the film.
The Hell Van is unleashed on Midway dispatching anyone and everyone that so much as looks at it. The cops are virtually powerless and most become victims themselves, including familiar gore film director Jim Roberts (Closing Time, Tonight You Die, Welcome to Deer Creek) who plays a police officer.
People are burned, drenched in blood, they melt, are forced to gouge out their eyes, and more by the wraith of the Hell Van. Even Hardgore Core’s guru and filmmaker Nathan Hine (The Sideling Hill) is destroyed by the Hell Van. Hine plays an escaped mental patient whose subsequent rampage is put to an end when he attempts to hitch a ride in the Hell Van.
A retired priest (Marvin Conner) attempts to assist the sheriff (director/writer Jorge Delarosa) in putting an end to the tyranny of the Hell Van in a cataclysmic conclusion. The dead are summoned back from the grave and rise from a local cemetery to wreak havoc. In a final reign of fire and brimstone Hell Van plays out its final retribution on the residents and authorities of Midway.
Writer/director Jorge Delarosa has his heart in the right place and has an eye for detail. The movie pops on screen and looks great, with vivid colours, and sharp images with quick cut editing. However, there are a lot of characters and side storylines going on so at times this can get confusing.
Hell Van is a low budget indie production, so Delarosa had done it all himself out of pocket. The make-up effects look good and are well done but I would have liked to see more. The performances from the cast are good especially considering most of them aren’t professional actors. I see a lot of passion and creative ideas overall. Hell Van is an ambitious ride through an inferno of satanic peril and devilish fun.
Directed by: Jorge Delarosa
Written by: Jorge Delarosa
Produced by: Jorge Delarosa, Jim Roberts, Louis DelBene, Colby Grimes, Anthony Savatt
Cinematography by: Cody McCullough, Harrison Poole, Stathi Loizos, Tim Novotny, Melinda Stephan
Editing by: Jorge Delarosa, Louis DelBene, Colby Grimes, Jim Roberts
Music by: Sean Carlin, Billy Farkas
Special Effects by: Karen Roberts, Dani Batone, Ron George, Travis Kendall, Angel O’Conner, Macalah Simonson, Rowyn Richards, Kali Lubish
Cast: Justin Cash, Meredith Hillard, Jim Roberts, Nathan Hine, Marvin Conner, Jorge Delarosa, James L. Edwards
Year: 2022
Country: USA
Language: English
Colour: Colour
Runtime: 2h 6min
Studio: The Slow Mutants, Blind Sight Productions
