(Streamed via Vudu)
Bus Party to Hell tells the… wait… shouldn’t it be Party Bus to Hell? I mean, I guess you can technically call it a “bus party” if you are having a party on a bus, but I’ve never once heard it referred to as such. Heck, even the theme song that plays over the opening credits is called “Party Bus to Hell”. In fact, the band even sings the words, “Party Bus to Hell” just as the title, “Bus Party to Hell” appears on screen. Weird. (As it turns out, it looks like the original title WAS Party Bus to Hell, but someone got the bright idea to change it to Bus Party to Hell. What the fuck, Hollywood?)
Anyway, Bus Party to Hell tells the story of a bunch of partygoers who hop on a party bus in Vegas and head out into the desert on their way to Burning Man. Naturally, they wind up stranded in the desert, and before long, their bus is attacked by a gaggle of desert-dwelling, Mad Max wannabe cult members who want to use the partygoers as human sacrifices. It’s then up to our heroes to use whatever they have at their disposal to fight off the crazed cultists and survive the night.
You know this is going to be a good movie because when Jillian Newton gets on the party bus it only takes her about a minute to become so drunk that she misplaces her top. Because Jillian is a trooper, she keeps on partying. In the next scene, we see a photographer (producer J. Spencer) in the desert who instructs his model (Devanny Pinn) to remove her top. When she asks if he thinks that’s a little gratuitous, he replies, “There’s no such thing as gratuitous nudity. That’s just in your mind.”
If you can’t already tell from the scads of nudity, this was directed by Rolfe Kanefsky, a veteran of such Skinamax movies as Sex Files: Alien Erotica, The Erotic Misadventures of the Invisible Man, and Emmanuelle Through Time: Emmanuelle’s Supernatural Sexual Activity. If anything, Bus Party to Hell is proof he’s still going strong. He also delivers on the horror-comedy elements as well as the film is frequently funny and often borderline hilarious. I especially liked the scene where a cult member motorboated with a guy’s decapitated head, leaving his friend to muse, “He’s in a better place now.” We also get a rather disgusting scene in which the cultists pin down a woman, force her mouth open, jam a snake down her throat, and then cut open her stomach and set the snake free. That’s what I call some serious deep throat action. The she-demon costume is also great.
Sure,
this party bus may run out of gas near the end, but more often than not, it’s a
funny, gory, and surprising ride. Some of
the sick humor is truly inspired. I’m
thinking specifically of the scene where a virgin is deflowered that is intercut
with an impromptu dissection. I also
enjoyed the set-up for a sequel that is teased at the end. I for one hope this is one Bus Party that
continues to party on!
AKA: Party Bus to Hell.
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