Hell's Gate

An hour before he's due to return to the surface after spending a month alone in an underground cavern (deep below the ruins of an ancient church), a 'scientist' flips out and runs about screaming. In response, his 'scientist' surface buddies decide to launch a rescue attempt and venture down into the caves to discover plastic skeletons, evil light bulbs, pet rats, a smoke machine, wobbly tombstones, 7 killer ghost/monk/spirits and eventually........ the doorway to hell itself.

If that sounds promising ye need yer ears syringed. Seriously. It sucks. All blame must lie in the fact that the budget wasn't large enough to buy a stamp to post a card locally, so all this turns out to be is a giggle inducing, limply paced run around  screaming affair with infrequent, tho quite gory murder scenes. Very bad dubbing and 'duuuuh' dialogue aside, there's little to recommend here and probably one for the die hard Italian 'gore hounds' who'll watch and adore anything from the 'masters'. Including this subterranean stinker which is yet another rung slide down the quality ladder for Lenzi - a director not known for his comedies, but after seeing this, who knows.

High on fun and low on fright, Barbara Cupisti (The Church -89), Pietro Genuardi and Lorenzo Majnoni are just some of the trapped idiots. Blink and you'll miss Paul Mueller. AKA: Le Porte Dell' Inferno.