Hellbent

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Hellbent

R,

2004,

1h 25m,

Horror/

LGBTQ+

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49%

43 Reviews

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42%

1,000+ Ratings

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49%

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43 Reviews

42%

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1,000+ Ratings

A group of gay friends is celebrating Halloween in West Hollywood, Calif., a neighborhood that's being prowled by a killer wearing a devil's mask. One of them, Eddie (Dylan Fergus), who works for the police, brings the others through some woods to check out a recent murder scene. They ignore the mask-wearing killer, who follows the group to a club, where he starts decapitating them one at a time -- until the only ones left are Eddie and Jake (Bryan Kirkwood), a potential love interest.

Critics Consensus

Hellbent is proof that gay slasher films can be just as tedious and mediocre as straight ones.

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J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

Jun 29, 2022

This isn’t very good—the puritanical impulses of the slasher genre collide head-on with the sweet requirements of gay exploitation flicks...

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Ty Burr

Boston Globe

Oct 14, 2005

1/4

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.

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Sara Michelle Fetters

MovieFreak.com

Sep 24, 2005

2.5/4

For an aggressively homosexual picture, writer-director Paul Etheredge-Ouzts plays things, forgive the euphemism, plays things fairly straight.

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Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

Aug 6, 2026

2.5/4

HellBent takes many of the best elements of that period’s horror milestones and weaves them into the first slasher feature with gay protagonists.

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Paul Lê

Bloody Disgusting

Sep 28, 2023

4/5

Hellbent is a clever slice of queer horror that’s deserving of its hidden gem status.

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Trace Thurman

Horror Queers Podcast

Dec 30, 2020

3.5/5

"What if a slasher, but gay?" is the question Hellbent asks and it works fairly well. Though hampered by a micro-budget, it subverts enough slasher troops to merit a watch.

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Paul Etheredge

Director

Dylan Fergus

Eddie

Bryan Kirkwood

Jake

Hank Harris

Joey

Andrew Levitas

Chaz

Matt Phillips

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Synopsis

A group of gay friends is celebrating Halloween in West Hollywood, Calif., a neighborhood that's being prowled by a killer wearing a devil's mask. One of them, Eddie (Dylan Fergus), who works for the police, brings the others through some woods to check out a recent murder scene. They ignore the mask-wearing killer, who follows the group to a club, where he starts decapitating them one at a time -- until the only ones left are Eddie and Jake (Bryan Kirkwood), a potential love interest.

Director: Paul Etheredge
Producer: Josh Silver, Steven J. Wolfe
Screenwriter: Paul Etheredge
Distributor: Regent Releasing
Production Co: Sneak Preview Entertainment
Rating: R (Language|Gore|Drug Use|Sexual Content|Strong Horror Violence)
Genre: Horror, LGBTQ+
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 26, 2004, Original
Rerelease Date (Theaters): Sep 16, 2005
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 5, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $179.7K
Runtime: 1h 25m

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