(re)Search my Trash

<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="592" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">    <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="405" align="right"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <p align="right"><img border="0" src="../stills/helltown-stars.jpg" width="400" height="192"></td> </tr> </table> <p>There never has been much love between the Gables and the Manlys, the two most prominent families in town - especially since father Gable (Jeff Montague) has seen to it that young Butch Manly (Ben Windholz) was thrown into jail. He's out now though, and he's madly in love with Trish Gable (Krysten Day), the cutest girl in town ... who has given up her "virginity" to pretty much everyone on the football team, and who might not be the biggest thinker in town - but she can be a right bitch when it comes to pursuing her own interests. Thing is, her sister Laura (first BeckiJo Neill, later Jennifer Grace) is madly in love with Butch, but he ignores her. Oh, and Trish's gay brother Bobby (Blake Cordell) is madly in love with Butch's brother Jesse (Owen Lawless), who does his best to repress his gay feelings. But there's definitely no love between Trish and Butch's sister Chanel (Amanda Deibert), who get into a fight no matter where they meet.<p>Both these families though have problems of their own as well, the Manly family matriarch (Pleasent Gehman) has been in a coma since God knows when and now the other family members actually have to "work" for a living while mum's nurse (Pleasant Gehman again) plans to eventually assume mum's identity. Meanwhile father Gable might be immensely rich, but knowing he'll die soon he tells his children he will inherit all of his money to only one of them - which puts their natural sibling rivalry into a new dimension ...<p>And if that wasn't enough, there's a serial killer in town killing all the football jocks and tearing the letters from their jackets - and of course, everybody's a suspect ...<p> <p><b>Hell Town</b> claims to be the only surviving episodes (7, 8 and 9 of season 2) of a lost soap opera - which is total bollocks of course, but the film sure feels like it, spinning together multiple unrelated storylines, many of them ended without conclusion, one character getting recast in the middle of the story by another actress looking nothing like the first one), many of the characters being nothing more than clichés and their motivations are hammered home via sledgehammer, the psychology behind the story is amazingly simplified, and many narrative threads are incredibly far-fetched ... and all of these are exactly the points that make <b>Hell Town</b> special and so much fun to watch, as the film doesn't take itself seriously for a minute but doesn't try to win the audience over with moronic humour or gross-out jokes but really plays the whole thing over-the-top in a soap opera way but tongue firmly in cheek, plenty of sight gags, dialogue and acting that intentionally borders camp, and plenty of surprises that might fit the soap-formula quite perfectly but that still come across as exhilarating.<p>A really fun movie!<p>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2015"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>