Hellbent

"When the night belongs to the Devil, the party goes to hell."

Director: Paul Etheredge Year: 2005 Runtime: 85 min IMDb: ⭐ 5.5
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Synopsis

A night filled with beautiful people, music and dancing at the West Hollywood Halloween Carnival turns deadly for four gay friends. When two men are found dead, the friends find that they are the killer's next target. No one knows who will survive the night. A wild, relentless ride filled with unexpected surprises and shocking scares.

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Meanwhile, high school senior Eden and her friends, Rachel, CeCe, Ricky, Patty, Tammy, Eric, and Sean are hanging out at the local burger joint. Sean's father and local tow truck driver, Ray Sawyer, comes by to pick up an order, leading Rachel to comment on how scary he is while Tammy flashes him. After work, Eden and Eric walk home just as Ray drives up and asks if she's alright. When he is sure, he begins to leave when the Creole woman – CeCe's grandmother – passes by. She swerves to avoid Ray and nearly falls off the bridge. Ray saves her, but the woman begs him to get the suitcase. As he reaches for it, the car falls off of the bridge and starts sinking into the water below. Upon suddenly opening, several snakes emerge and attack Ray. The ambulance arrives to find Ray and CeCe's grandmother dead. CeCe arrives shaken up over the tragedy, and takes a charm that was on her grandmother's corpse. CeCe then surprises Eden and Eric by asking them about Ray. Later that night, the coroner examines Ray's body, noting several snake bites. Suddenly, Ray gets back up and kills the coroner before leaving to retrieve his truck. After arriving home, he then proceeds to kill a cop. The next day, Eden visits her father's grave, and sees Ray's tow truck driving by. While swimming in the lake, a heavily drunk Sean ditches Rachel, forcing Eric to chase after him. Meanwhile, Tammy and Patty are planning to go shoplifting, but stop by Ray's business to fix their car first. Once Tammy's done, she goes to look for Patty, only to find her hanging by several chains. She tries to escape, but Ray lowers a car on her and sandblasts her to death. As Eric follows Sean to Ray's garage, the latter gets angry at the former for abandoning him. He finds a picture of him when he was a little kid, which shows that Ray did care about him, but he storms out toward the garage and finds Tammy's remains. Later that night, Eden and her friends go to CeCe's grandmother's house, where CeCe explains that the snakes that killed Ray were full of evil that her grandmother took out of men to purify their souls. They try to escape, but their car has been flipped over. They see Ray and begin to run, but the undead killer pins Ricky with a crowbar and rips his arm off. Ray goes to enter the house, but finds he can't because it was blessed with voodoo spells. Despite this, he's able to throw a chain inside, drag Sean out, and mortally wound him. Eden and Eric shoot Ray with a rifle so the others can drag Sean inside and try to save him, but he dies on the floor. Rachel mourns the loss of her boyfriend while Eden talks CeCe into turning Sean's body into a human voodoo doll to control Ray. Meanwhile, Ray uses his tow truck on the house's foundation and pulls a whole room off; dragging Eric and Rachel with it and crushing CeCe's leg with a support beam. Ray begins to climb the wreckage toward CeCe, but she stabs Sean's body several times to slow Ray down. Ultimately however, the possessed killer reaches her and kills her. Eden, Eric, and Rachel try to escape, but Ray follows in his truck and manages to drag Rachel halfway out of the car. Despite Eden's best efforts, Rachel's impaled on a fallen tree. Stuck in the swamp, Eden and Eric try to reach dry land while Ray dives beneath the murky water only to find a copy of Unicorn Island. Soon enough, Ray attacks them and causes them to separate; causing Eden to end up in a crypt with Ray's victims. When she goes to escape, Ray locks her in. Fearing his return, she hides und…

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Content Warnings

⭐ IMDb Parents Guide 🛡️ Common Sense Media

someone is sexually assaulted
spoiler SPOILERS / No, but just in case: a character is handcuffed to a bed during a sexual encounter without giving complete consent. This could be unnerving to people bothered by this sort of thing.
someone leaves without saying goodbye
Yes
someone is stalked
spoiler A main plot point is that the group of characters in question are followed or stalked by the antagonist. This includes potentially unnerving scenes of the antagonist following them in the background while the characters are unaware, and goes on throughout the entire movie.
there's addiction
Yes
alcohol abuse
spoiler A character gets drunk while lonely in an unhealthy manner.
someone uses drugs
Yes
someone is restrained
spoiler someone is handcuffed to a bed near the end of the movie
there's eye mutilation
spoiler SPOILERS / Eye mutilation is technically in multiple scenes, but not in a gorey or traditionally horrific manner. The eye in question is fake but nonetheless present in a character's socket.
there's excessive gore
Yes
heads get squashed
spoiler But a lot get cut off
there's decapitation
spoiler If you don't want to see that, definitely don't watch this movie
someone's throat is mutilated
Yes
there are hangings
spoiler No, but you see a fake person hanging as Halloween decoration
there's shaving/cutting
Yes
someone is stabbed
Yes
someone falls to their death
spoiler No, but a character does nearly fall off a fire escape.
a major character dies
Yes
someone dies
Yes
there are jump scares
Yes
there are clowns
spoiler No, but if clowns bother you, it might be good to know that there are a few background Halloween costumes with clown-like makeup and attire.
someone vomits
spoiler Around 34 / 35 minutes one of the boys says he's going to puke. You don't see it happening. Around 49 minutes, right afer the killer attacked one of the boys in the club, the guy dressed as a woman pukes in a trash can, in front of the camera. It's not too much / not too bad, but it's very sudden and unexpected.
There's audio gore
Yes
there's spitting
Yes
there is copaganda
Yes
there's a hospital scene
spoiler But someone is taken away in an ambulance
someone says "I'll kill myself"
spoiler No, but near the end someone says "shoot me"
there's a claustrophobic scene
spoiler There are a lot of crowd scenes and not a lot of personal space.
shaky cam is used
Yes
there's flashing lights or images
spoiler Especially around 46 - 49 minutes
there is obscene language/gestures
Yes
someone is watched without knowing
Yes
there are homophobic slurs
Yes
someone is misgendered
spoiler Some boys see a man dressed as a woman from behind and ask 'her' something about her legs. Then 'she' turns around and turns out to be a man. The boys laugh because one of them was kind of hitting on 'her'.
there are "Man in a dress" jokes
Yes
an LGBT person dies
Yes
someone speaks hate speech
spoiler Lots of anti-gay words thrown around but only by the gay characters themselves. Not in a hateful way but the words are there
there's demons or Hell
spoiler People dressed like them, for Halloween
there is sexual content
Yes
someone is sexually objectified
Yes
there's BDSM
spoiler But there is BDSM type of clothing (for a Halloween party)
the ending is sad
spoiler It's not a happy end..
there's blood/gore
Yes
there's gun violence
Yes

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