Black Hell. A terrible movie, soaked in cruelty, pain and a vile world in which there is nothing civilized. Ngotsi Onwura, originally from Nigeria, became an independent director and screenwriter on British television. She made a number of short films, and in 1995 she released a scandalous, psychological film called Welcome to Terror.
How would I describe this film to a man who has never seen it: unwarranted cruelty and a horrible, black world you never want to be in? After watching this independent picture, you experience complete devastation, something unpleasant, there is sediment. The film is shocking and extremely cruel, so it is not for everyone.
In this story, we see a world ruled by violence and force. This is a family with black heroes. Everyone follows a slippery slope: banditry, prostitution, theft, fights, drugs. One of the black brothers fell in love with the ex-wife of a white gangster, and from here the whole terrible story begins. A nasty gangster, who can not be called a person, decides to take revenge on his ex, pregnant wife and beats her. There are many tragedies...
This is not just a violent and psychological film. It's much deeper. There is a shade of fiction and mysticism. There is an ancient African legend that tells that after death there is another way that will return the deceased to his homeland. In the beginning and in the final we see a strange, hypnotic something, and this was a good idea of the director.
The cast of black actors is unknown, but there was no falsehood or anything played, which is nice to emphasize. Of all the actors I want to highlight at that time still rising, British actress Saffron Burroughs. The scenes were too horrific and shocking. Burroughs played a pregnant woman who was subjected to violence and terrible torment. It is on this story that all the horror and shock of the film rests, and feeds everything else with a mystical and mysterious ending. The film itself is very strange, resembling a sharp blade on a bleeding wound.
Welcome to the Terror is a British psychological drama with a taste of fiction. The movie is extraordinary and shocking, not a failure, but not a masterpiece. I am very neutral about him.
5 out of 10