A collaboration between Pakistani director Omar Ali Khan (a noted horror buff who runs the informative Hot Spot website) and British producer Pete Tombs (author of the "Mondo Macabro" book on international horror cinema and owner of the DVD label of the same name), HELL'S GROUND is actually a fairly straightforward low-budget horror film, as it relates the creepy tale of five attractive teens (three guys, two girls) who pile into a van to travel to a rock concert and subsequently get lost in the woods. Soon the quintet runs out of gas, and they wind up encountering everything in the jungle from zombies to sinister hitchhikers to a psychotic family living in a shack (the film actually owes more to the original TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE than Romero's undead movies). Khan is adept at generating suspense and pouring on the gore, but the film's main thrill is undeniably the surreal cultural tension at work -- this seemingly standard horror movie takes on a unique quality with its talk of Muslim prayers, its Urdu titles and Islamic iconography and the fact that the main villain wears a blood-soaked burqa instead of a butcher's apron -- and who knew that five kids from Islamabad would be so obsessed with getting stoned? HELL"S GROUND may be the only horror movie you ever see from Pakistan, but it's a good one. (Travis Crawford, Danger After Dark)

ZIBAHKHANA – HELL'S GROUND is the first modern horror film to be shot in Pakistan. It breaks all of the rules of local productions and was made entirely independently with no film industry or government assistance.

In the spirit of the EC horror comics of old, the film tells the story of five teens who are menaced by flesh eating mutations and then fall into the clutches of a family of backwoods killers. The film includes copious amounts of gore alongside a splattering of social commentary and several slices of dark humour. It’s best seen as a tribute to the cinema of Lucio Fulci, George Romero and Tobe Hooper, but viewed from a distinctly Pakistani perspective.