Hellions

Canada 2015
produced by
Paul Lenart, Frank Siracusa, Janina Barrett (supervising) for Storyteller Pictures, Whizbang Films
directed by Bruce McDonald
starring Chloe Rose, Robert Patrick, Rossif Sutherland, Rachel Wilson, Luke Bilyk, Peter DaCunha, Emir Hirad Mokhtarieh, Nicholas Craig, Sydney Cross, Stephanie Fonceca, Adelaide Humphreys, Aliyah Jhirad, Victoria Obermayer, Devon Phillipson, Joe Silvaggio, Karlo William
written by Pascal Trottier, music by Todor Kobakov, Ian LeFeuvre

review by
Mike Haberfelner

It's Halloween ... and 17 year old Dora (Chloe Rose) learns she's pregnant - which is nothing if not a big shock for her, so big indeed that she can't even tell her mother (Rachel Wilson) who's less than pleased about her daughter's boyfriend Jace (Luke Bilyk) as it is ... but mum's out for the evening, and Jace will come pick Dora up later on when she'll tell at least him. Only instead of Jace, only a bunch of trick-or-treaters stop by her place at the appointed hour, and looking into their bag, she actually finds ... Jace's severed head. Dora calls the police, and because of cramps connected to her pregnancy also her doctor of trust (Rossif Sutherland) and she locks herself into her house ... but apparently the trick-or-treaters outside increase in numbers steadily, and they want into her house, and have her baby - which grows inside her body much faster than it's supposed to. Eventually, the doctor is brutally killed, but the local sheriff (Robert Patrick) fights by her side bravely, as his wife was taken from him in a similar situation, as absurd as it might be - but do they have the slightest chance against these weird and violent trick-or-treaters ...

Hellions is a movie that seems to play entirely in a league of its own as it spins a grotesque, surreal and absurd yarn that plays with genre conventions only to eventually break them, and it relies on a logic all of its own, a logic that the film manages to transmit to its audience though without relying on long-winded explanations and the like, but just through the dynamics of its story. The result is quite fascinating, also thanks to a terrific and wildly inspired directorial effort and a first rate cast.

Quite impressive, actually!

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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