Bingo Hell

Name: Bingo Hell
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Comedy
Released: October 1, 2021
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 55
Cast: Adriana Barraza, Bertila Damas, Clayton Landey, David Jensen, Gigi Saul Guerrero

2021

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Amazon Prime Video | Release Date (Streaming): October 1, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Adriana Barraza, Bertila Damas, Clayton Landey, David Jensen, Gigi Saul Guerrero, Grover Coulson, Joshua Johnson-Lionel, Kelly Murtagh, L. Scott Caldwell, Richard Brake

Summary: In the Barrio of Oak Springs live a strong and stubborn group of elderly friends who refuse to be gentrified. Their leader, Lupita, keeps them together as a community, a family. But little did they know, their beloved Bingo hall is about to be sold to a much more powerful force than money itself. [Part of Amazon's Welcome to the Blumhouse series]

Director: Gigi Saul Guerrero

Genre(s): Fantasy, Horror, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 85 min

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Michael Talbot-Haynes

Oct 13, 2021

Gigi Saul Guerrero is a Mexican director who works in Vancouver’s thriving female production-driven indie horror scene, as documented in Vancouver Video Vixens. After honing her talent with many shorts, television episodes, and anthology segments, she has arrived as a fully formed auteur with Bingo Hell. Read full review

Katie Rife

Oct 12, 2021

A sometimes clunky but always bold blend of social satire and delirious style. Read full review

The Guardian Phil Hoad

Sep 29, 2021

It gets turgid in its final third but backed by director Gigi Saul Guerrero’s cartoonish punch, Barraza’s cantankerous grimace and hair-trigger rejoinders are a pure pleasure. Read full review

The Independent Clarisse Loughrey

Oct 1, 2021

There’s enough warmth to Guerrero’s script, co-written with Shane McKenzie and Perry Blackshear, to paper over the odd rickety effect or wooden performance. Read full review

The Playlist Brian Tallerico

Sep 30, 2021

The film works when Barraza and Brake are allowed to go all-in but comes up just short of being called a winner when it takes itself a bit too seriously. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nick Allen

Oct 1, 2021

Even with the poetic, vicious grin we can see from Brake’s gummy smile, feasting on the dreams of lovable people misguided by materialism, there’s far too little to fear, or think about. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Oct 1, 2021

It works hard stylistically to provide a good time. But that would have been a better bet had at least as much effort been put into a screenplay whose ideas, both comic and macabre, remain undernourished. Read full review

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JLau

Oct 5, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Community of old folks have their bingo hall bought over by an evil force that kills them when they win the big prizes.… Expand

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JLuis_001

Oct 18, 2021

The problem with Bingo Hell, and Black as Night, is that their very structure and production make them feel like movies that can barely stand on their own.

Both films are the latest releases of the more than mediocre ''horror'' anthology: Welcome to the Blumhouse. These two movies,The problem with Bingo Hell, and Black as Night, is that their very structure and production make them feel like movies that can barely stand on their own.

Both films are the latest releases of the more than mediocre ''horror'' anthology: Welcome to the Blumhouse.

These two movies, especially Bingo Hell, look like movies straight out of a TV show with the quality of series like Goosebumps or Are You Afraid of the Dark?
That's how simplistic they are.
Of course, they have more budget, but they're still cheap and disposable.

This one also has themes rooted in poverty, racial and neighborhood issues, but there's very little to save from them.
After all, they are parts of the story, but not the important thing about it.… Expand

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