Corey Feldman plays a minor role in minor haunted horror flick
6 DEGREES OF HELL (Joe Raffa, 2012)
reRun Gastropub Theater
147 Front St. between Jay & Pearl Sts., Brooklyn
November 4-10, $7
718-766-9110
www.reruntheater.com
www.sixdegreesmovie.com
Set in a former hotel that itself was a subject on Ghost Detectives, Joe Raffa’s 6 Degrees of Hell is a Halloween horror flick that starts off promisingly before falling flat and careening into a meandering maelstrom. Paranormal investigator Kyle Brenner (Corey Feldman, who gets top billing but has very few scenes) has come to the small town of Metcalf to find out what happened one horrible night. Deputy Len Hendricks (Brian Anthony Wilson) fills him in as the story is told in a series of flashbacks in which Uncle Jack (Brian Gallagher) prepares his “Hotel of Horror” attraction with the help of Chris (David J. Bonner), Kelly (Ashley Sumner), Kellen (Raffa), and Rachel (Tereza Hakobyan), the classic quartet of partying youngsters who are either doomed from the start or destined to be heroes. They are joined by local ghost hunter Erik Sanborn (Kyle Patrick Brennan), who is harboring a secret of his own. Raffa (You’ll Know My Name) and screenwriter Harrison Smith fill 6 Degrees of Hell with references to a myriad of other horror movies, including, Night of the Living Dead, Friday the Thirteenth, The Exorcist, Fright Night, Creepshow, and the Hammer films, but it never manages to establish a uniqueness of its own. There are a handful of gruesome moments that are just excuses for blood and gore, leading to an infuriating ending that will disappoint the hell out of you. It’s better to keep several degrees of separation from this hackneyed haunted house movie.