Hellions

Name: Hellions
Genre: Horror
Released: September 18, 2015
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 34

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IFC Midnight | Release Date: September 18, 2015 | Not Rated

Summary: A teenager’s Halloween night turns into a terrifying fight to survive when trick-or-treaters from Hell show up at her doorstep. After getting the unwelcome news that she’s pregnant, seventeen-year-old Dora (Chloe Rose) just wants to stay in on Halloween. But then a knock at the door delivers a gaggle of pint-sized demons after one thing:A teenager’s Halloween night turns into a terrifying fight to survive when trick-or-treaters from Hell show up at her doorstep. After getting the unwelcome news that she’s pregnant, seventeen-year-old Dora (Chloe Rose) just wants to stay in on Halloween. But then a knock at the door delivers a gaggle of pint-sized demons after one thing: Dora’s baby. [IFC Midnight]… Expand

Director: Bruce McDonald

Genre(s): Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 80 min

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RogerEbert.com Simon Abrams

Sep 24, 2015

There is, in other words, nothing new in Hellions that you can't get already in earlier, more ambitious horror films. But McDonald delivers an effective thrice-told tale, and he does it with enough avant garde flair to show viewers that temper their expectations a good time. Read full review

Katie Rife

Sep 17, 2015

Plenty of striking, clever, effective movies have been made simply by re-arranging and re-calibrating familiar genre elements. Hellions might have been one of these, if it was predicated on something slightly less shallow than “kids in masks + chanting + blood = scary.” Read full review

Robert Abele

Sep 17, 2015

Hellions is art book horror, something to flip through but never truly eerie or scary. Read full review

Scott Tobias

Sep 13, 2015

Bruce McDonald’s Hellions is an unpleasant muddle of the visceral and the abstract. Read full review

John DeFore

Sep 15, 2015

Rather than engage in slow-build horror, Pascal Trottier's screenplay flips the switch into Poultergeisty chaos. Read full review

Chuck Wilson

Sep 15, 2015

Hellions is unsettling, but in all the wrong ways. Read full review

The Playlist Drew Taylor

Sep 15, 2015

Completely forgettable, Hellions is far less cool, smart, and scary than it thinks it is. Read full review

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DirigiblePulp

Dec 12, 2016

This is some trippy, dream-like metaphor for the fear of young parenthood. Little kids terrorizing a 17 year old who just found out she's pregnant. Does this whole thing take place in her head? It's presented as such, and even if it's not, you know from the way things unfold there's not muchThis is some trippy, dream-like metaphor for the fear of young parenthood. Little kids terrorizing a 17 year old who just found out she's pregnant. Does this whole thing take place in her head? It's presented as such, and even if it's not, you know from the way things unfold there's not much reality to the proceedings. This film should basically be a pure atmospheric horror ride but it's too much in the main character's head, a head we don't know that well and we know isn't that important beyond the type it represents anyway.

It's hard to find a tangible connection with this film and I found it hard to engage with the "terror" scenes outside a passing interest in the way they were shot and assembled. They didn't engage me, and in a non-cerebral film like this that's basically a death knell.… Expand

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WJS

Feb 12, 2016

This film definitely has its creepy moments of horror, and some pretty cool cinematography and design elements, but unfortunately it has a very contrived narrative and just seems to go on endlessly. It's the longest 1 hour and 20 minutes in film history which is a shame, because I've likedThis film definitely has its creepy moments of horror, and some pretty cool cinematography and design elements, but unfortunately it has a very contrived narrative and just seems to go on endlessly. It's the longest 1 hour and 20 minutes in film history which is a shame, because I've liked some of Bruce McDonald's previous films, especially Hard Core Logo.… Expand

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