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.

Inspector Abhay Rathod is an honest and diligent police officer employed with the Mumbai Police. He is assigned the case of racketeer and criminal don, Shekhar Mohan. Abhay successfully entraps and arrests Shekhar and has him sentenced to jail. Abhay is now the Assistant Commissioner of Police, with a happy family: wife Sajana and son Chirag. Having completed his jail term, Shekhar Mohan is looking to seek vengeance against Abhay. On finding out that Abhay is the only one who knows the whereabouts of his loss, Shekhar kidnaps Chirag and tricks Abhay into believing that he has killed Chirag. Grief-stricken, Abhay's wife tells Shekhar that Chirag is his lost son. On finding out Chirag loves cars, hellbent on earning Chirag's affection, Shekhar takes him to various racecourses. Thrilled at watching so many fast sports cars, Chirag warms up to Uncle Shekhar. But, with Abhay and the police closing in fast on him, will Shekhar maintain his son's love?

Summary adapted from TMDb and Wikipedia sources.

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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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