If so, one can't get into or out of hell unless you're going this fast.

88mph of course...

Wasn't that the plotline in the most recent Doom game?

Several Doom games, and also Half-Life. Ripping a hole into Hell for travel purposes has been done in Doom, the movie Event Horizon, and the tabletop gaming franchise Warhammer 40K.

Which goes to show what a terrible idea this all is ;-).

Nonono, Half-Life was about opening a portal to a Hypervisor.

Xen. It could be worse, it could have been the QEMU dimension.....

:)

Also done in an excellent though unfinished series of books, The Salvation War[0]. Albeit travel was only a side effect of the real goal there.

[0] - http://www.tboverse.us/HPCAFORUM/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=29 - full text of Armageddon and Pantheocide available there; the author decided to abandon the series because someone stole his work to destroy his ability to publish it.

> the author decided to abandon the series because someone stole his work to destroy his ability to publish it.

What do you mean? It seems like the author was publishing it for free online already; how would one steal that work and prevent him from publishing?

There are some details scattered around the forum. For starters, one quote from the author[0]:

"The third part never got written. We had a contract signed to publish them and they'd been prepared, copy-edited and put into paperback novel format (I actually have the author's preprints) when a . . . . person . . . . stole the copy and published it himself as a torrent. As a result, the whole deal fell through and nobody will touch an already-published work. So, without any possibility of generating return, I ditched the project. There's no chance of going back to it now."

I once saw a more detailed story about the guy who stole the copy and alleged reasons for doing it, but I can't find it right now.

[0] - http://www.tboverse.us/HPCAFORUM/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=29&t...

Also Minecraft, where it's called the Nether, and where every meter traveled in the Nether moves you eight meters on the surface.

Don't forget Minecraft.

Charles Stross in his Laundry Files series may have pioneered that path (although no movies that I know of).

Do the wrong transform in, say, a Hilbert space and something quite horrible may come after you.

Starts as a local sci-fi movie, heat-ends as a cosmological documentary.

Narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson

I feel like Event Horizon was this in one form or another.

And the portal is in some guys fridge.

"There is no Dana, only Zuul."

Wait is this just turning into Ghost Busters?

Use a recurrent neural network to generate said script!