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Party Bus to Hell

2017 American comedy horror film directed by Rolfe Kanefsky

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ123984499
Source-derived summary

Party Bus to Hell (also known as Bus Party to Hell) is a 2017 American comedy horror film directed by Rolfe Kanefsky and starring Tara Reid, Sadie Katz, Stefani Blake, Demetrios Alex, Ben Stobber, ViDonna Michaels, Shelby McCullough, Ray Gutierrez, Richard Hochman, John Molinaro, and Devanny Pinn.

Cast

Jillian Newton as Lara Swit (credited as Stefani Blake)

Sadie Katz as Joan Starrett

Demetrios Alex as Peter Oates

Ben Stobber as Warren Fonda

ViDonna Michaels as Reese Neptune

Shelby McCullough as Ivy Roberts

Ray Gutierrez as Stuart Parker

Richard Hochman as Alan Armstrong

John Molinaro as Cult Member

Tara Reid as Darby Lewis

Devanny Pinn as Kimberly Hudson

Nailya Shakirova as Priestess

Brian Blu as Fik

Elissa Dowling as Sect

Michael Forsch as Lloyd Band

J Spencer as J Spanner

Robert Rhine as Bob McReady

Aaron Groben as Mike

Release

The film premiered in Las Vegas on 30 October 2017. It was released to VOD on 13 April 2018.

Reception

Matt Boiselle of Dread Central rated the film 3.5 stars out of 5 and called it a "psychotic, carnage-wracked, breast-fest best suited for a late Saturday night watch".

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Party Bus to Hell” as 2017 American comedy horror film directed by Rolfe Kanefsky. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Party, Hell and American.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2017-10-30. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Party, Hell and American providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q123984499. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2017 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from Party Bus to Hell” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.