AmosL
08-27-2006, 12:55 PM
"HELLBENT"
due out soon
Amos Lassen and Cinema Pride
This is a movie I have been waiting anxiously to see. It's a gay slasher movie. Should I repeat that?
"Hellbent" is one of the new kind of movies that we haven't had yet. We've had love stories and soap operas, heavy dramas and light comedies, detective stories and silly farces and now we can add a slasher movie to the canon of gay filmography.
I received a screener of the film from HERE! TV and I ran to the microwave to get the popcorn going and got ready to sit down and be amused or scared....whatever.
"Hellbent" is taglined as "when the night belongs to the Devil, the party goes to hell". The movie, to the contrary, does not go to hell. There is a lot of talent here even if the movie is not the success it was hoped to be. Whatever, I loved it. Directed by Paul Etheredge-Ouzts, "Hellbent" starts gushing blood in the opening scene. Two gays making out in a parked card are brutally beheaded. Their heads were obviously kept by the perpetrator. He was obviously starting a collection or else was just looking for head. (I know, that was bad).
The action occurs in Hollywood during the annual Halloween carnival. The costumes here are fabulous and flamboyant. Four gay buddies are stopped from having a good old time when they find out that have to fight for their lives to get through the night. And being that this is set in California, we can expect lots of drugs and lots of sex along with everything else the guys of California feel is necessary to have a good time. They obviously were not counting on the blood and gore.
Eddie (Dylan Fergus) is a young police officer who cruises a very good looking young stranger, Jake (Bryan Kirkwood) who is also a Marlon Brando clone. Then there is Joey (Hank Harris), who is young and virginal. We have our token drag queen Tobey (Matt Phillips) who is also a "sensitive underwear model". And where we would be without a bisexual cowboy, Chaz (Andrew Levitas).
At one time this could have been a low budget campy horror film. But today, it is our very own--we have infiltrated almost all film genre with the addition of this flick. There is no pretense here--what you see is what you get--no hidden meanings, no sneaky subplots, just a gay slasher movie. It is plain and simple; a total release from the doldrums of life. It isn't a great movie but it a good movie with its originality. It was produced to entertain and that is exactly what it does, I know I say this a lot but I'll say it again. This is one not to be missed.
due out soon
Amos Lassen and Cinema Pride
This is a movie I have been waiting anxiously to see. It's a gay slasher movie. Should I repeat that?
"Hellbent" is one of the new kind of movies that we haven't had yet. We've had love stories and soap operas, heavy dramas and light comedies, detective stories and silly farces and now we can add a slasher movie to the canon of gay filmography.
I received a screener of the film from HERE! TV and I ran to the microwave to get the popcorn going and got ready to sit down and be amused or scared....whatever.
"Hellbent" is taglined as "when the night belongs to the Devil, the party goes to hell". The movie, to the contrary, does not go to hell. There is a lot of talent here even if the movie is not the success it was hoped to be. Whatever, I loved it. Directed by Paul Etheredge-Ouzts, "Hellbent" starts gushing blood in the opening scene. Two gays making out in a parked card are brutally beheaded. Their heads were obviously kept by the perpetrator. He was obviously starting a collection or else was just looking for head. (I know, that was bad).
The action occurs in Hollywood during the annual Halloween carnival. The costumes here are fabulous and flamboyant. Four gay buddies are stopped from having a good old time when they find out that have to fight for their lives to get through the night. And being that this is set in California, we can expect lots of drugs and lots of sex along with everything else the guys of California feel is necessary to have a good time. They obviously were not counting on the blood and gore.
Eddie (Dylan Fergus) is a young police officer who cruises a very good looking young stranger, Jake (Bryan Kirkwood) who is also a Marlon Brando clone. Then there is Joey (Hank Harris), who is young and virginal. We have our token drag queen Tobey (Matt Phillips) who is also a "sensitive underwear model". And where we would be without a bisexual cowboy, Chaz (Andrew Levitas).
At one time this could have been a low budget campy horror film. But today, it is our very own--we have infiltrated almost all film genre with the addition of this flick. There is no pretense here--what you see is what you get--no hidden meanings, no sneaky subplots, just a gay slasher movie. It is plain and simple; a total release from the doldrums of life. It isn't a great movie but it a good movie with its originality. It was produced to entertain and that is exactly what it does, I know I say this a lot but I'll say it again. This is one not to be missed.