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- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 97% of 67 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The website's consensus reads: " Hellbender stirs a boiling cauldron of adolescent angst, serving up a coming-of-age story with dark horror overtones."
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Feb 24, 2022 · These folks make daring, confident genre films, and they’re only getting better. One of the reasons is that they’re becoming stronger performers. In “Hellbender,” Zelda Adams is legitimately great as Izzy, a young woman who has been raised away from civilization.
Rated: 3.5/5 Jul 11, 2024 Full Review Hector A. Gonzalez Loud and Clear Reviews Hellbender (or H6LLB6ND6R) uses DIY horror aesthetics to deliver a hallucinogenic and bloody entertaining mother...
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- Zelda Adams, Toby Poser, Lulu Adams
- John Adams, Zelda Adams, Toby Poser
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Feb 24, 2022 · Hellbender is surprisingly rich with depth and an acute understanding of its narrative, becoming intentionally darker, more disgusting, and scarier the more it progresses. If audiences find themselves strong enough to stomach it, Hellbender is well worth the watch.
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Updated: Aug 17, 2021 4:21 pm
Posted: Aug 17, 2021 3:00 pm
Hellbender premiered at the Fantastia Intl. Film Festival, and will stream on Shudder in early 2022.
From Carrie and The Craft to Ginger Snaps and Jennifer’s Body, coming-of-age horror has a rich tradition of turning girls into mesmerizing monsters. We might shriek at their vicious impulses, but amid their tales of teen angst, changing bodies, and craving boys, blood, and popularity, we see an unnerving reflection of our own stories. Making its world premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival, Hellbender is a ruthlessly witchy offering that walks in these footsteps while carving a homespun path of its own.
Hellbender is the latest feature from the Adams family, a mother-father-daughter(s) team that’s been making movies in truly indie fashion since 2013’s Rumble Strips. They are the cast and crew of their works. For the previous films, mother Toby Poser and father John Adams shared writing and directing duties, while daughter Zelda Adams co-starred alongside them. In 2019, they broke through with the festival favorite The Deeper You Dig, a lean and mean ghost story now available on Shudder. Little wonder, then, that Shudder has already acquired this ambitious follow-up, which bumps Zelda up to co-writer/co-director for a story about a girl gone wild as hell.
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More than a coming-of-age story, Hellbender is a mother-daughter drama that achieves a balance between both sides. While Izzy understandably searches for friends, identity, and meaning, the nightmare for her mother is not just the fear of losing her little girl to the independence of adulthood, but also being powerless to prevent Izzy from making the same mistakes she did in her impetuous youth. John Adams’ sound design gives voice to her growing worries through eerie backwards whispers and a score that sounds like violins being played by lead pipes. Most bombastically, this mother is tormented by clamorous visions of doom, exploding with surreal imagery and giallo-reminiscent bursts of color and sound that intrigue and unnerve.
Zelda shoulders her arc impressively, transforming before our eyes from a timid girl to a merciless maneater. (She showed a similar flair for spooky spectacle as the adolescent poltergeist of The Deeper You Dig.) As for Poser, she has an easy screen presence that translates their real-life bond into an enchantment of its own. At points, this is simply a hangout movie, luxuriating in the boundary-breaking pleasures of jamming with your mom or popping psychedelic maggots. Such scenes ground the strange in something familiar and sacred, the cozy and chaotic bond of parent and child. So even as we might root for Izzy to go full baddie — and give us a catastrophe-rich climax — we also hope for this bond to be preserved. This taut tension makes for a finale that, though simple in its construction, proves thrilling and haunting.
If you’re not yet a fan of the Adams clan, now is your chance to get on board. Far from polished vanity projects, their films are grungy and enthralling explorations of family and fear. Their collaborations not only channel real-life intimacy into captivating onscreen chemistry and suffocating tension, but also offer a culture clash of generational...
Feb 24, 2022 · ‘Hellbender’ Review: The Family That Preys Together In a horror feature by a family of filmmakers, a young woman discovers her mother has been stifling her supernatural abilities. Share full ...
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- John Adams, Zelda Adams, Toby Poser
Hellbender (or H6LLB6ND6R) uses DIY horror aesthetics to deliver a hallucinogenic and bloody entertaining mother/daughter story revolving around witchcraft. Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 ...
Feb 23, 2022 · The tiny invertebrate’s life force awakens Izzy’s latent powers as a Hellbender, a commanding natural force she later describes as “a cross between a witch, a demon, and an apex predator.”
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