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A teenager must survive a Halloween night from Hell when malevolent trick-or-treaters come knocking at her door.A teenager must survive a Halloween night from Hell when malevolent trick-or-treaters come knocking at her door.A teenager must survive a Halloween night from Hell when malevolent trick-or-treaters come knocking at her door.
- Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination
Emir Hirad Mokhtarieh
- Buckethead
- (as Emir Mokhtarieh)
Nicholas Craig
- Pinocchio
- (uncredited)
Sydney Cross
- Raggedy Ann
- (uncredited)
Stephanie Fonceca
- Rat King
- (uncredited)
Victoria Obermayer
- Sidney
- (uncredited)
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- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaThe plot of Hellions is very similar to that of an earlier short story "Buckets" by F. Paul Wilson. In the story, an abortion doctor is visited and tormented by trick-or-treaters who are revealed to be the spirits of fetuses he has aborted throughout his career.
- GoofsDora and Luke decide that Luke will pick Dora up at her home at 6:30PM. Time passes and after a while Dora calls Luke to ask when he'll be there, indicating that it's already past 6:30PM. But when she looks at her phone after the call ends, it clearly shows 4:49 PM--almost 90 minutes before Luke was supposed to pick her up.
- Quotes
Remi Vogel: Give us the baby you little bitch, or we'll rip it out of you.
- Crazy credits"No animals or demons were harmed during the making of this film."
- ConnectionsFeatures Cottage Country (2013)
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Hellions is the latest film from Bruce McDonald who helmed Pontypool (2008), a film which showed that he was a director who was not afraid to approach old ideas in new ways. With Hellions, it could be said that he is adopting the same philosophy. Its story focuses on a teenage girl who lives in a town famed for its pumpkin crop. On Halloween night she discovers she is pregnant to her boyfriend and very soon finds herself home alone and terrorized by strange, costumed, demonic children who seem to be after her unborn child.
To be honest just going by the synopsis you could be forgiven for thinking this is going to be no more than a routine horror outing with little to differentiate itself from the pack. But in practice it's a whole lot better than that. This is mainly on account of the stylised manner in which its story has been brought to the screen. Once our heroine is in the midst of her struggles, lots of colour filters are used to create a weird Halloween fantasy land which creates quite a nice off-kilter atmosphere. Not only that but this is one of the few recent horror films that actually makes an effort with its soundtrack too; the score by Todor Kobakov and Ian LeFeuvre is a consistently inventive, layered and spooky concoction. Rounding things off there is a strong central performance from Chloe Rose and decent support work from Robert Patrick.
Content-wise, there's nothing especially new here but the manner in which it is brought to the screen shows considerable care and effort. There's quite a lot to appreciate in the visuals and soundtrack in particular, while the creepy kids are donned out in some imaginatively sinister costumes. This one successfully creates its own distinctive ambiance and that seems like a pretty good enough achievement to me.
To be honest just going by the synopsis you could be forgiven for thinking this is going to be no more than a routine horror outing with little to differentiate itself from the pack. But in practice it's a whole lot better than that. This is mainly on account of the stylised manner in which its story has been brought to the screen. Once our heroine is in the midst of her struggles, lots of colour filters are used to create a weird Halloween fantasy land which creates quite a nice off-kilter atmosphere. Not only that but this is one of the few recent horror films that actually makes an effort with its soundtrack too; the score by Todor Kobakov and Ian LeFeuvre is a consistently inventive, layered and spooky concoction. Rounding things off there is a strong central performance from Chloe Rose and decent support work from Robert Patrick.
Content-wise, there's nothing especially new here but the manner in which it is brought to the screen shows considerable care and effort. There's quite a lot to appreciate in the visuals and soundtrack in particular, while the creepy kids are donned out in some imaginatively sinister costumes. This one successfully creates its own distinctive ambiance and that seems like a pretty good enough achievement to me.
- Red-Barracuda
- Jun 19, 2015
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- Озорники
- Filming locations
- Puslinch, Ontario, Canada(location)
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- Gross worldwide
- $14,485
- Runtime1 hour 20 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1
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