 Zibahkhana (English: Hell's Ground) is an Urdu-English film directed by Omar Khan. It premiered at the NatFilm Festival in Denmark and has since been screened at festivals all over the world including Toronto, NYC, London, Neuchatel, Stockholm, Cape Town, Austin, Philadelphia, Cambridge, Puerto Rico, Sitges, Valencia, Oslo, Helsinki with several more festival dates lined up. Recently the film has passed censors in Pakistan (with 8 - 10 seconds cut) and will soon become the first non 35mm, HDV feature film released in Pakistan cinema history. ZIBAHKHANA - Hell's Ground won the JURY's SPECIAL AWARD for BEST GORE at the Fantastic Film Festival, Austin, TX. Quoting the times: Khan wanted his first full-length feature to be a tribute to the formative films of his youth: Psycho, Evil Dead, The Exorcist, maybe a little Rocky Horror Picture Show. "I want this to be the first mindless midnight cult movie Pakistan has ever had," he told an attentive audience. He's well on his way. If Leatherface, Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, Norman Bates and the guy who knows what you did last summer got together for a Friday the 13th party in Islamabad, Zibahkhana would be the result. Here is the promo:
The story looks familiar to that of Hostel 1 & Hostel 2.
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