Slaughterhouse Rock (also known as Hell Island in the United Kingdom)[2] is a 1988 American supernatural horror film directed by Dimitri Logothetis, and starring Nicholas Celozzi, Tom Reilly, Donna Denton, Hope Marie Carlton, Tammara Hyler, Steven Brian Smith, Ty Miller, and Toni Basil.

Its plot follows a college student who travels to Alcatraz Island with his friends, after having recurring nightmares of a rock band that was killed there.

Alex Gardner (Nicholas Celozzi), a college student suffers from recurring nightmares in which he experiences the deaths of the victims of a vicious killer who lived on Alcatraz, before it became a prison.

When the nightmares begin manifesting in reality, and his friends see him hovering over his bed, his teacher (Donna Denton), an occultist, tells him to go to the island to face down the ghost of the killer.

[1] Caryn James of The New York Times wrote, “There is always a way to improve on a stock formula, but Slaughterhouse Rock [...] manages to make these elements seem much worse and even more tired than they are,” though she praised the performance of Steve Brian Smith.