Stop me when this sounds familiar: A group of kids lie to their parents, hit the road for a night full of partying, and stumble across a nightmare of monumental proportions. Sounds like your typical B-grade horror movie, right? Absolutely. Hell's Ground is an unwaveringly derivative and preposterously gory little genre concoction that borrows a lot from the finest films of George Romero, Sam Raimi and Tobe Hooper while forging very little new ground of its own. But you know what? It's still a fun fright flick, even with all its obvious touchstones and blatant inspirations. Once the movie gets the character introductions and the requisite wheel-spinning out of the way, it's a pretty energetically good time.

It's Texas Chainsaw Massacre meets Dawn of the Dead, sorta ... oh, and it came from Pakistan. Did I not mention that part? Yep, a mega-splattery zombie-strewn slasher flick from Pakistan. Shot entirely in Islamibad by a bunch of young filmmakers who clearly grew up with the same horror flicks we did. So while you're being assaulted with ideas, characters and monsters that are clearly 'borrowed' from other sources, well, it's just quite the novelty to witness Pakistan's first gore movie.

Last October, Matt Bradshaw posted about the world's first movie with Muslim zombies -- Zibahkhana, or, Hell's Ground. The first feature of Pakistani film historian and ice cream shop owner Omar Khan, Ground follows, as the CBC describes it: "five jeans-clad teenagers who cut classes, then lose their way en-route to a rock concert. The story unfolds with blood, gore and a measure of humour as they stumble across a psychotic family, zombies and a cannibalistic killer dressed in a burqa." Khan says that it reflects the values of Westernized Pakistani youths who feel alienated in the country's mainly rural culture.

Last October, the film had yet to screen. Now, after sold-out unofficial screenings in Pakistan (where viewers cheered), as well as time at film fests in Denmark and Philly, Khan is hoping that the film will get by Pakistani censors and get released in August. The new director thinks his film is what is needed for the ailing Lollywood, Pakistan's struggling film industry. At the very least, it is unique and entertaining subject matter for an industry that relies on Bollywood-style filmmaking. "We'd like to rock the movie scene here," Khan says. "Our film demolishes all the traditional filmmaking barriers in Pakistan. We hope it will inspire some to take more risks." It certainly could do that. While horror is starting to head into a slump here in North America, we've seen great success in international horror films like The Host, which won a slew of South Korean Blue Dragon awards. Time will tell if Khan's "very low budget, scuzzy, rough-edged, cheesy little horror film" will do the same. Meanwhile, you can check out the film's wacky, full trailer here.