PlatinumRead
Just so...so bad
Holstra
Boring, long, and too preachy.
CrawlerChunky
In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
anxietyresister
It's hard to convey your feelings in written form over the Internet. You could use a hundred different words and still end up falling short of what you're trying to tell the reader. What I'm getting at is, I can in no way accurately describe the.. acting in the first 5 minutes. You could run through every synonym in every language in the world and still come nowhere near the awfulness of this scene. It's between a man and a little girl, and you couldn't find two worst performers if you tried. Thankfully, the bloke is quickly disposed of, and the kid grows up into the main character of the film.. actually, scratch the "Thankfully" part, because everyone else is almost as bad.My God, this is a stinker. It lets off such a putrid stench it would even kill the flies and dung-beetles. Hellinger is a guy covered in white make-up who speaks in a stupid voice. He eats his own skin, which is made out of rubber. When he kills people, he lets off blood packs in his hands. Scared yet? I certainly am, when I realise that there are actually people loose in our community who consider it a horror rather than a comedy. I'm not one for unintentional laughs, but there were so many clunkers here I was rolling on the floor begging for mercy. A lot of them involving the heroine's bearded cousin, who sports possibly the most ridiculous OTT tattoo of a dragon known to man. It covers the whole of his body up to his neck, and is so distracting it is actually more fun to watch than anything else in the picture. Go on, pause when he's taking his shower, and check out the amount of detail in the illustration. AMAZING.Finally, after the minuscule running time of just over 70 minutes, the movie is over. We can discuss all the highlights, such as Shannah Betz rubbing red food dye over her tits and a nasty chap stabbing a girl in the vagina repeatedly. You people must be really proud of your agents. Especially with the ending, that features the dismembering of a Spitting Image puppet complete with chopped liver. Yes I know it's supposed to be Hellinger, but COME ON. The fact that this isn't the worst film I've seen this year is the most depressing part. Sigh.. 0/10
BA_Harrison
Hellinger (Wayne Petrucelli), a demonic spirit who looks like he failed to graduate from Cenobite school and talks as though he has severe brain damage, likes to torment a woman named Melissa (Shana Sosin), killing those around her and then boring the poor girl with protracted monologues about the devil and stuff (all delivered in his insufferable trademark drawl).Melissa's cousin Kendall (Artie Richard) is a tough cop with a serious set of inks and a cool leather coat; he is investigating a murder, but seems to spend more time talking to Melissa's coma-inducing psychiatrist in an attempt to help her with her problems.Meanwhile, Melissa's boyfriend is out doing very nasty things to women with a knife...Even by Troma's low, low standards, Hellinger is very poor viewing: the muddled Hellraiser-style storyline is never scary, the dialogue is tedious and uninteresting, the acting atrocious (with Petrucelli taking the prize for worst actor), and the whole cheap-assed production reeks of amateurishness. Hell, the extreme levels of ineptitude displayed by all involved didn't even manage to make me laugh, so the film doesn't even score marks there!However, narrowly saving this piece of garbage from the shame of receiving a 1/10 are a couple of completely gratuitous sex scenes (just like dwarfs and kung fu, they always make a film better) and a murder scene that manages to shock thanks to the over-the-top manner in which the victim is dispatched: she is brutally punched in the face, repeatedly stabbed between the legs with a knife, eaten out by her attacker (yes, literally eaten out!!!), and then raped. This is all done in the dark, and so isn't necessarily that graphic, but we see enough to get the message: this killer is one very sick puppy!
Jack
Twenty years ago, a young girl is abused by her father. Hellinger, a character like pinhead except without the pins and with a horrible habit of massive overacting, shows up and kills her father. In the present day, the girl is still haunted by memories. There's a televangelist who wants her to attend some event. I have absolutely no idea what this guy is doing in the movie as the two seem to have little if any connection to each other, and he serves no purpose in the story. There's a cop who is apparently the girl's cousin. He's covered in tattoos over every inch of his body and yes, we get to see every inch of his body on more than one occasion. Talk about gross. There's also the girl's psychiatrist, who lives in a small apartment that the film makers rather comically try to pass off as some sort of office. He has a long conversation with the cop, the contents of which are such utter nonsense that it would almost be funny if it wasn't so boring.So the cop investigates stuff that has little to do with Hellinger, the girl goes out with her boyfriend and Hellinger shows up and kills him, and there's a very brutal rape / murder scene which is shown in graphic detail. The entire plot is explained in the last ten minutes of the movie, and it would have only taken about three minutes if Hellinger didn't talk so damned slow.I'll give the movie an extra point for getting the lead actress to take her top off, she's quite attractive. And the victim in the rape scene did a very realistic job of acting, so that gets an extra point as well. So that's three total. Otherwise it's just amateurish, with atrocious acting and the dialog sometimes completely drowned out by road noise and the tacky soundtrack. Most of the scenes in this movie are just filler and serve no purpose except to pad out the run time. As far as zero budget trash goes, this isn't quite the bottom of the barrel, but you can see the bottom from here.
Carrie-Anne Jackson
this film was the most disgusting film i have ever seen. how you could film someone pretending to be raped is beyond me its sick and i hated it. what if people brought that and was raped in the past, you don't think about how it could affect them, it could lead them to suicide and you'd be the people they would blame. it can really hurt someone and why you would have the audacity to even think about putting that sort of appalling scene in a film is disgraceful. i hope you never make things like this again because i was absolutely disgusted and couldn't be touched thats the way it affected me it was appalling. this truly was the most disgusting thing i have ever seen!
