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  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 20 m

Summary A teenager’s Halloween night turns into a terrifying fight to survive when trick-or-treaters from Hell show up at her doorstep. After getting the unwelcome news that she’s pregnant, seventeen-year-old Dora (Chloe Rose) just wants to stay in on Halloween. But then a knock at the door delivers a gaggle of pint-sized demons after one thing:...

Directed By: Bruce McDonald

Written By: Pascal Trottier

  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 20 m

Hellions

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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User Score Mixed or Average Based on 10 User Ratings
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Summary A teenager’s Halloween night turns into a terrifying fight to survive when trick-or-treaters from Hell show up at her doorstep. After getting the unwelcome news that she’s pregnant, seventeen-year-old Dora (Chloe Rose) just wants to stay in on Halloween. But then a knock at the door delivers a gaggle of pint-sized demons after one thing:...

Directed By: Bruce McDonald

Written By: Pascal Trottier

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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13% Positive
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38% Mixed
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50% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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13% Positive
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38% Mixed
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50% Negative
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63
Sep 24, 2015
There is, in other words, nothing new in Hellions that you can't get already in earlier, more ambitious horror films. But McDonald delivers an effective thrice-told tale, and he does it with enough avant garde flair to show viewers that temper their expectations a good time.
By Simon Abrams FULL REVIEW
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Sep 17, 2015
Plenty of striking, clever, effective movies have been made simply by re-arranging and re-calibrating familiar genre elements. Hellions might have been one of these, if it was predicated on something slightly less shallow than “kids in masks + chanting + blood = scary.”
By Katie Rife FULL REVIEW
40
Sep 17, 2015
A jumbled third act and an indifferent ending ultimately make Hellions disappointing. But there’s a bit of fun to be had in its opening frights, and in trying to figure out what these costumed little monsters really want.
By Ken Jaworowski FULL REVIEW
30
Sep 15, 2015
Hellions is unsettling, but in all the wrong ways.
By Chuck Wilson FULL REVIEW
30
Sep 15, 2015
Rather than engage in slow-build horror, Pascal Trottier's screenplay flips the switch into Poultergeisty chaos.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW
30
Sep 13, 2015
Bruce McDonald’s Hellions is an unpleasant muddle of the visceral and the abstract.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
25
Sep 15, 2015
Completely forgettable, Hellions is far less cool, smart, and scary than it thinks it is.
By Drew Taylor FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Whizbang Films, Storyteller Pictures
Release Date Sep 18, 2015
Duration 1 h 20 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline This Halloween, Hell Comes Knocking
Website https://www.facebook.com/hellionsmovie
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Awards

Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Fantasporto
• 1 Nomination

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