There's a set of three movies under "Fresh Hell Presents", so let's see what they presents!
Dead Teenagers: Five teenagers at a lake. Murderer around. You've heard it all before right? But what if one of the characters finds a few odd things. Like a light stand... or a script. And what if the movie doesn't go exactly according to the script, so the movie has trouble happening. What do you do then? Take over being the writer? Or do whatever it takes to make it out alive?
I can see what they are doing here, but there are large slabs where everyone can see what is going on so we are all waiting on the movie to get to the next part. It's an otherwise tight script, only 80 minutes, but the last 20 minutes are rushed, after the prevous 40 minutes taking too long to get there. I guess the acting is fine, but no particular standouts.
Wolves Against the World: Two band members were heavily into being Nazis back in the day with a third member, who died. (According to the IMDB summary we were supposed to think he committed suicide, but later find out he was killed by one of the band members... I never got that, I entirely assumed he was killed.) They get back together as the one that tried to get clean is trying to get money from his friend that didn't.. and we get deep into heavily Semetic things, and an "occult battle of wills"... again that is from the IMDB.
No, what we get is two ex friends trying to be friends again, but finding out one friend is full on psycho Nazi and I think the movie is trying to end on the "good" one taking out the "bad" one? Which is not occult, no matter what contacts they put on the bad guy to make us think of actual werewolves. I note that the script writer is the "bad" guy, so yeah, if you write a piece of shit, you play the piece of shit, otherwise don't write that.
The Exorcism of Saint Patrick: A pastor takes a gay young man out to a faraway cabin to deconvert him from being gay. It doesn't go well, and after 60 of the 90 minutes, the gay kid finally kills himself. The pastor is somewhat accused, but keeps away... but then undergoes severe guilt and kills himself (or what it demons or ghosts?).
This could have been something, but spends most of the time showing how terrible gay conversion is. Then punishes the pastor. And... there isn't much else to it really.
There is some connective tissue between the movies, reused locations, and a bit with a buried cable, but mostly this is writer/director Quinn Armstrong doing some movies. And so I guess he did that.
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