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Hellbent

Play trailer Poster for Hellbent R Released Jun 26, 2004 1h 25m Horror LGBTQ+ Play Trailer Watchlist
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A group of gay friends is celebrating Halloween in West Hollywood, Calif., a neighborhood that's being prowled by a killer wearing a devil's mask. One of them, Eddie (Dylan Fergus), who works for the police, brings the others through some woods to check out a recent murder scene. They ignore the mask-wearing killer, who follows the group to a club, where he starts decapitating them one at a time -- until the only ones left are Eddie and Jake (Bryan Kirkwood), a potential love interest.

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Hellbent is proof that gay slasher films can be just as tedious and mediocre as straight ones.

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J. R. Jones Chicago Reader This isn’t very good—the puritanical impulses of the slasher genre collide head-on with the sweet requirements of gay exploitation flicks... Jun 29, 2022 Full Review Ty Burr Boston Globe A genre cheapie from its digital-video camerawork to its Casiotone soundtrack to its bland, buff cast, the movie is a cultural watershed in a dry gulch. Rated: 1/4 Oct 14, 2005 Full Review Sara Michelle Fetters MovieFreak.com For an aggressively homosexual picture, writer-director Paul Etheredge-Ouzts plays things, forgive the euphemism, plays things fairly straight. Rated: 2.5/4 Sep 24, 2005 Full Review Paul Lê Bloody Disgusting Hellbent is a clever slice of queer horror that’s deserving of its hidden gem status. Rated: 4/5 Sep 28, 2023 Full Review Trace Thurman Horror Queers Podcast "What if a slasher, but gay?" is the question Hellbent asks and it works fairly well. Though hampered by a micro-budget, it subverts enough slasher troops to merit a watch. Rated: 3.5/5 Dec 30, 2020 Full Review Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com The killer in question is horrifying and frightening, yet oddly sexy, when seen and could hold his own with any of our famously horrific killers. Rated: 3.0/4.0 Sep 10, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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David W One of my all time favorite movies. Prefect for the Halloween season. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/24/24 Full Review Daniel O The only horror and terror of this movie is how bad it is Rated 1 out of 5 stars 11/22/23 Full Review PridePosterStudios Probably the sassiest slasher there is 💅 Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/22/24 Full Review Audience Member adorei... esse filme é muito bom ele é um dos filmes de terror que eu mais gosto de assistir .. nossah! eu já assisti muitos filmes de terror horriveis sem sentido, nojentos e chatos ... mas Hellbent é um filme maravilhoso, qualquer critica negativa sobre esse filme é inconveniente e preconceituosa ...o filme é ótimo... e o policial gay assumido foi uma ideia muito boa , deveriam existir mais filmes com policiais, marinheiros, astronautas, cientistas, agentes secretos, espiões, e militares gays assumidos nos filmes .... o que está faltando nos filmes é um super herói gay , um 007 gay ,precisam valorizar mais a comunidade lgbt... Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member Although the general premise was generic, the introduction of an all gay cast elevated this slasher movie to greater heights. All the characters are believable, well defined and are relatable to anyone in the gay community. However the movie does leave some unanswered questions, like why is this guy going around slaughtering gay men? What is the motive? Despite this the movie was pretty good. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member It just wasn't fun to watch. I had thought that it entered the postmodern era where you can dissect the subgenre and the entire trope, but no, it was just boring. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Paul Etheredge

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Dylan Fergus

Eddie

Bryan Kirkwood

Jake

Hank Harris

Joey

Andrew Levitas

Chaz

Matt Phillips

Tobey

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Synopsis A group of gay friends is celebrating Halloween in West Hollywood, Calif., a neighborhood that's being prowled by a killer wearing a devil's mask. One of them, Eddie (Dylan Fergus), who works for the police, brings the others through some woods to check out a recent murder scene. They ignore the mask-wearing killer, who follows the group to a club, where he starts decapitating them one at a time -- until the only ones left are Eddie and Jake (Bryan Kirkwood), a potential love interest.
Director
Paul Etheredge
Producer
Josh Silver, Steven J. Wolfe
Screenwriter
Paul Etheredge
Distributor
Regent Releasing
Production Co
Sneak Preview Entertainment
Rating
R (Language|Gore|Drug Use|Sexual Content|Strong Horror Violence)
Genre
Horror, LGBTQ+
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 26, 2004, Original
Rerelease Date (Theaters)
Sep 16, 2005
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 5, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$179.7K
Runtime
1h 25m
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