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Actor: Baron Rogers, Bryan Kirkwood, Hank Harris, Nina Landey, Wren T. BrownBrand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
Cinematographer: Mark Mervis
Composer: Mike Shapiro
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 84 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-09-12
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Liberation Ent
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Movie Review: Gay Halloween!
Summary: 3 Stars
"Hellbent" is a nifty little thriller with a good personality. It does what it is supposed to do--chills and thrills--and still manages to make its small cast of characters endearing before subjecting them to the razor sharp sickle of a stalker in a devil costume. Set amidst the sexually charged, funky glamor of the annual Halloween Carnival in tres gay West Hollywood, the film has been touted as the first gay slasher movie. I don't know if that's true, or if there has been a general outcry over gays being underrepresented in filmdom's slasher genre, but whatever the case, "Hellbent" is here, and it's done with a certain amount of flair. Director Paul Etheredge-Ouzts knows how to wring a maximum amount of tension from a scene, and he brings a sense of visual excitement to the film, in spite of the occasional clunky dialogue and plot contrivances necessary for any slasher film (i.e., getting characters to go off into dark, isolated areas when they know that there's a murderer on the loose). To be sure, the killer's targets, four friends out for a Halloween night on the town, are not rocket scientists, but each has his own set of quirks and foibles that separate one character from the other, and each one is likeable.
Dylan Fergus makes a handsome, appealing lead, a wannabe cop with one glass eye and the other eye on heartfelt romance; he's a sweet-natured, virginal dreamer, about as far from a tough guy as you can imagine. Andrew Levitas is also convincing as the wild, anything-goes, best friend whose motto seems to be "anyone, anyplace, anytime". Whether it's male or female, he's on it, and he's always ready for action. Hank Harris, playing the naive youngster of the bunch, and Matt Phillips, as a muscular underwear model doing drag for the first time, do nice turns rounding out the group, while Bryan Kirkwood alternates between creepy/sexy and outright annoying as an edgy biker being wooed by our hero.
True, "Hellbent" is bloody, although not egregiously so. Compared to any of the films in the "Saw" franchise, for instance, it's pretty tame. There's one murder committed on a crowded dance floor that is particularly creative and stylishly filmed--it belies the film's budgetary restrictions. The climax of "Hellbent", which finds one of the friends handcuffed to a bed (courtesy of edgy biker-boy) while the killer lurks nearby is effective and scary, even if it is predictable. And the film's final shot is set up so that you don't know whether to laugh or scream.
There have been worse slasher films than "Hellbent", and there have been better. But, there hasn't been a better gay slasher film, so I guess that's saying something. If you're weary of the endlessly cliched and tired parade of gay coming-of-age films, and those god-awful gay "comedies" that have been churned out in recent years ("Slutty Summer", "Another Gay Movie"), then you might want to check out "Hellbent".
Summary of Hellbent
Two gay men on a date are murdered the night before Halloween in West Hollywood California. Eddie and his friends Joey Chaz and Tobey are going out the following night to the West Hollywood Halloween festival when they encounter the psycho who sets his eye on them. The killer stalks them through the festival as Chaz parties Joey chases his jock crush Tobey tries dressing in drag and Eddie pursues Jake the bad boy he wants to get to know better. Not until the very end do you find out who dies and who survives their night of terror.System Requirements:Running Time: 85 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: R UPC: 796019794497 Manufacturer No: 79449Horror DVD Video
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