H3 – Halloween Horror Hostel is a German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 horror

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

-parod

Parody film

A parody film is a comedy that satirizes other film genres or films. Although the genre is often overlooked, parody films are commonly profitable at the box office...

y, produced by ProSieben Funny Movie. The film was directed by Michael Karenist and written by Stefan Barth.

Plot

During a cooking show, Tim Mälzer got repeated phone calls from a mysterious person, who asks for popcorn. After several calls Mälzer responses to the person, that threatened him to kill him, like he did it with the camera man. Mälzer looked for the camera man, but he had disappeared. Then the microwave rings and Mälzer opened it and find the camera man's head inside. After that a Jigsaw puppet appeared driving a small red car and asked again enraged for the popcorn.

In the same time the four friends Nico, Janine, Acki and Martin driving through a forest.

Parodies

The movie contains many references and parodies of many known horror-thriller movies:

• Halloween
  Halloween (franchise)
  Halloween is an American horror franchise that consists of ten slasher films, novels, and comic books. The franchise focuses on the fictional character of Michael Myers who was committed to a sanitarium as a child for the murder of his older sister, Judith Myers...
  
  - The main theme can be heard, when the four friends walking through the forest.
• Friday the 13th
• Hostel
  Hostel
  Hostels provide budget oriented, sociable accommodation where guests can rent a bed, usually a bunk bed, in a dormitory and share a bathroom, lounge and sometimes a kitchen. Rooms can be mixed or single-sex, although private rooms may also be available...
  
  
• Dead End
  Dead End
  Dead End is a 1937 crime drama film. It is an adaptation of the Sidney Kingsley 1935 Broadway play of the same name. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Joel McCrea, and Sylvia Sidney...
  
  
• Saw - The Jigsaw
  Jigsaw
  Jigsaw may refer to:* Jigsaw , a tool used for cutting arbitrary curves* Jigsaw puzzle, a tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of interlocking pieces- Film and television :* Jigsaw , a 1949 film noir...
  
   puppet.
• The Ring
• Ju-on
• I Know What You Did Last Summer
  I Know What You Did Last Summer
  I Know What You Did Last Summer is a 1997 American horror film. The film stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Freddie Prinze Jr. The screenplay was written by Kevin Williamson, writer of Scream, and very loosely based on Lois Duncan's popular novel of the same title...
  
  
• Scream
  Scream (film)
  Scream is a 1996 American slasher film written by Kevin Williamson and directed by Wes Craven. The film stars Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Drew Barrymore, and David Arquette...
  
  
• 28 Weeks Later
  28 Weeks Later
  28 Weeks Later is a 2007 British/Spanish film sequel to the 2002 post-apocalyptic horror film 28 Days Later. 28 Weeks Later was directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and released in the United Kingdom and United States on 11 May 2007...
  
  
• House of Wax
  House of Wax
  House of Wax may refer to:*a wax museum*House of Wax , a 1953 3D horror film starring Vincent Price*House of Wax , a 2005 horror film starring Elisha Cuthbert and Chad Michael Murray- See also :...
  
  - Letter animation at the beginning.
• The Evil Dead
  The Evil Dead
  The Evil Dead is a 1981 horror film written and directed by Sam Raimi, starring Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, and Betsy Baker. The film is a story of five college students vacationing in an isolated cabin in a wooded area...
  
  - Camera drives.
• Dawn of the Dead
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
  The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003 film)
  The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a 2003 remake of the 1974 horror film of the same name. The 2003 film was directed by Marcus Nispel and produced by Michael Bay...
  
  
• Freddy vs. Jason
  Freddy vs. Jason
  Freddy vs. Jason is a 2003 American slasher film directed by Ronny Yu. The film is a crossover between the A Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th franchises...
  
  
• From Dusk till Dawn
  From Dusk Till Dawn
  From Dusk till Dawn is a 1996 horror film directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Quentin Tarantino. The movie stars Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino and Juliette Lewis.-Plot:...
  
  
• Donnie Darko
  Donnie Darko
  Donnie Darko is a 2001 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Richard Kelly and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Patrick Swayze, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Noah Wyle, Jena Malone, and Mary McDonnell...
  
  - The smoking alook-like Donnie Darko rabbit scene
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
  E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
  E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 American science fiction film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison and starring Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, and Peter Coyote...
  
  - Jigsaw puppet flies with his red car in front of shinning moon.
• Harry Potter
  Harry Potter (film series)
  The Harry Potter film series is a British-American film series based on the Harry Potter novels by the British author J. K. Rowling...
  
  
• Michael Jackson's Thriller - The dance routine of the zombies, with the music.

Cast

• Alfonso Losa as Nico
• Jennifer Ulrich
  Jennifer Ulrich
  Jennifer Ulrich is a German actress who has starred in such films as The Wave and We are the Night. She was born in Lichtenberg, Berlin.-Career:...
  
   as Janin
• Axel Stein as Acki
• Hendrik von Bültzingslöwen as Martin
• Christian Tramitz as Harry
• Mike Krüger as Michael Meier
• Ivonne Schönherr as Ficky
• Anni Wendler as Paris
• Mirjam Weichselbraun as Sidney
• Holger C. Gotha as Vater von Sidney
• Santiago Ziesmer as Jigsaw (Sprechrolle)

Critics

"H3 - Halloween Horror Hostel is a cheap TV parody on Halloween

Halloween (1978 film)

Halloween is a 1978 American independent horror film directed, produced, and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with Debra Hill, and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut and the first installment in the Halloween franchise. The film is set in the fictional midwestern...

, Saw

Saw (film)

Saw is a 2004 American independent horror film directed by James Wan. The screenplay, written by Leigh Whannell, is based on a story by Wan and Whannell. The film stars Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Monica Potter, Michael Emerson, Ken Leung, Whannell and Tobin Bell...

, Friday the 13th, Hostel etc. - also a quick reference to The Ring

The Ring (2002 film)

The Ring is a 2002 American psychological horror film directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Naomi Watts and Martin Henderson. It is a remake of the 1998 Japanese horror film Ring....

was made along the way. I said 'cheap' meaning both 'low budget' as well as 'no serious effort made'. A few good jokes and a lot of lame ones, but at the length of just 70 minutes still easy to sit through. [...] So, very little new to see, just a quick rehash of familiar blueprints to fill an hour and a half (including advertising breaks) in the late night program. [...]".

-User review from: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1143145/