Hellbent is a clever slice of queer horror that’s deserving of its hidden gem status.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 28, 2023

This isn’t very good—the puritanical impulses of the slasher genre collide head-on with the sweet requirements of gay exploitation flicks...

| Jun 29, 2022

"What if a slasher, but gay?" is the question Hellbent asks and it works fairly well. Though hampered by a micro-budget, it subverts enough slasher troops to merit a watch.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 30, 2020

The killer in question is horrifying and frightening, yet oddly sexy, when seen and could hold his own with any of our famously horrific killers.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 10, 2020

This lightweight entry in the budget teen-splatter department adds one innovation: sexy gay boys who literally lose their heads on Halloween.

| May 9, 2020

By the time Etheredge-Ouzts uncorks the Suspiria-meets-Un Chant d'Amour climax, the film has snowballed enough subtext for five Robin Wood dissertations

| Sep 1, 2009

Homo-erotic themes aside, this is otherwise a stock scary movie which rates out as an above-average example of the genre.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 25, 2007

It's not deep and it's not unique, but HellBent approaches an oft-abused sub-genre with just enough originality and creativity to warrant some praise.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 21, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Elevates the conversation along its own parameters.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 31, 2005

Etheredge-Ouzts coasts on the idea that combining homosexuality with homicide is revolutionary.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 21, 2005

Yes, like the classic soon-to-victims of slasher movies past, [these characters are] simply too dumb to live.

| Oct 18, 2005

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 15, 2005

A genre cheapie from its digital-video camerawork to its Casiotone soundtrack to its bland, buff cast, the movie is a cultural watershed in a dry gulch.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 14, 2005

| Original Score: F | Oct 1, 2005

The only thing 'HellBent' proves is that in a slasher movie, homosexual victims can be as dumb as heterosexual ones. This is progress?

| Original Score: C- | Sep 28, 2005

Doesn't exactly reinvent the wheel with its narrative, but for horror fans, it's smarter than the norm and delivers a crafty little twist to the conventions of the genre.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 26, 2005

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 24, 2005

A refreshingly straight-up genre flick with lots of blood and a few nice scares along the way.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 24, 2005

For an aggressively homosexual picture, writer-director Paul Etheredge-Ouzts plays things, forgive the euphemism, plays things fairly straight.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 24, 2005