Daniel O
The only horror and terror of this movie is how bad it is
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
11/22/23
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robert p
I wish I could give this movie a *5* star rating but I save that only for classics. The movie was very entertaining and scary with tensions high for the last half of the movie. Though I fear it makes gay life look better than it really is!!!!
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
03/31/23
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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...
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
02/02/23
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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.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
01/13/23
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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.
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
02/13/23
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HellBent (Paul Etheredge, 2004)
The world's first gay-themed slasher movie is... well, just another slasher movie, really. Which on the one hand was a really good idea; anyone who wanders into this can be certain of what they're getting. On the other hand, if you're going to break the mold by making every character in your movie gay (with the possible exception of the killer), you might as well bend a few other genders, right? Etheredge (Angel of Death) played it safe, instead.
Plot: You've seen slasher movies, right? Four pals-cop-with-a-desk-job Eddie (Come Away with Me's Dylan Fergus), his little brother Joey (Pumpkin's Hank Harris), horndog Chaz (The Box's Andrew Levitas), and drag queen Tobey (Champion's Matt Phillips), are getting ready for the town's big gay Halloween carnival. A killer murdered two gay men in a secluded parking lot just on the other side of the woods from the carnival grounds, and Chaz has the brilliant idea of parking in that same secluded lot and hiking through the woods to get to the carnival... which needless to say attracts said serial killer's attention. When they get there, Eddie, who's smitten with bad-boy biker Jake (The Absent's Bryan Kirkwood), tries to get some in what may be the most awkward, embarrassing attempt at a pickup scene ever filmed, while Jake makes a similarly inept attempt to get to know hunky jock fratboy Jared (Baron Rogers in his first feature appearance), who he's had a longtime crush on. Tobey, getting no action, finds himself sitting with another drag queen at the bar complaining about men, and Chaz, being Chaz, parties it up with anyone and everyone who comes his way. None of them know they're being stalked by a crazed killer-until it's too late...
The things I liked about this movie, I really, really liked. About half the soundtrack is amazing; I had no idea the homocore/queercore movement had produced artists of the caliber of Kent "Nick Name" James and Terri Laird, both of whom turn in top-notch tunes. And that pickup scene? So awkward, so awful, so real, and it is helped immensely by Etheredge (who also wrote the script) having Jake react to it so perfectly (and, of course, Fergus and Kirkwood having the acting ability to pull it off). It's the little bits like that that make this movie worth watching. On the flip side of this is the movie's predictability, the kinda-incoherent ending that will satisfy exactly no one, the fact that there's no way in hell Tobey was going to be the one of these guys who was going home alone (I mean, come on, he's hot as a woman)...just a little too much in here I couldn't buy to offset all the stuff I was willing to pay extra for. It's good, but it's not great; if gay-themed movies don't turn you off, this one is worth a shot. ***
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/11/23
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