HellBent: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 0 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 44 reviews

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Laura Kern New York Times (Top Critic)

60

Because more time is dedicated to crafting authentic, sympathetic characters than the average horror movie, it's easier to overlook the film's often-corny dialogue and so-so special effects.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Ty Burr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

25

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.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jorge Morales Village Voice (Top Critic)

The scariest thing about Hellbent is that somebody thought making this humorless gaysploitation slasher flick would be a good idea.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News (Top Critic)

50

Either it's a truly lousy retread of horror-movie cliches, or it's a mildly amusing sendup of them.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

0

Full Review » 7 years ago
Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

50

This isn't a particularly good movie, and it's offensive in the way mid-range low-budget slasher shows usually are. But it works better than some.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

38

The film goes through the motions familiar from mainstream slasher movies, but without an underlying logic motivating the action, the film becomes an exercise in blood-spattered boredom.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Dennis Harvey Variety (Top Critic)

Full Review » 4 years ago
Luke Sader Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

If audiences have been waiting for a gay slasher film, their wait might be over, but their appetite will not be sated.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

60

Aa hard-charging horror movie with a clever gay twist.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Fernando F. Croce CinePassion

By the time Etheredge-Ouzts uncorks the Suspiria-meets-Un Chant d'Amour climax, the film has snowballed enough subtext for five Robin Wood dissertations
Full Review » 3 years ago
Trevor Johnston Time Out New York

Full Review » 5 years ago
Kam Williams Upstage Magazine

75

Homo-erotic themes aside, this is otherwise a stock scary movie which rates out as an above-average example of the genre.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Scott Weinberg DVDTalk.com

70

It's not deep and it's not unique, but HellBent approaches an oft-abused sub-genre with just enough originality and creativity to warrant some praise.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Time Out

Full Review » 6 years ago
Film Threat

80

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Walter Chaw Film Freak Central

88

Elevates the conversation along its own parameters.
Full Review » 7 years ago
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Josh Bell Las Vegas Weekly

50

Etheredge-Ouzts coasts on the idea that combining homosexuality with homicide is revolutionary.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Boston Phoenix

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Stephen Schaefer Boston Herald

25

Full Review » 7 years ago
Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion

34

The only thing 'HellBent' proves is that in a slasher movie, homosexual victims can be as dumb as heterosexual ones. This is progress?
Full Review » 7 years ago
Dustin Putman DustinPutman.com

63

Doesn't exactly reinvent the wheel with its narrative, but for horror fans, it's smarter than the norm and delivers a crafty little twist to the conventions of the genre.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Peter Sobczynski eFilmCritic.com

20

Full Review » 7 years ago
Amanda Reyes Film Threat

80

A refreshingly straight-up genre flick with lots of blood and a few nice scares along the way.
Full Review » 7 years ago