Us follows the Wilson family - Adelaide (Lupita Nyong'o), Gabe (Winston Duke), Zora (Shahadi Wright Joseph) and Jason (Evan Alex) - on vacation … (Spoilers) The new movie 365 DNI (365 Days) has been the number one movie … These are two of the least interesting characters to headline an end-of-the-world movie in years—there had to be more intriguing people to follow into the apocalypse. Chloe Rose also makes for an endearing leading lady, and the fact that Robert Patrick plays even a small role in this one makes us happy.
But this approach also applies to her storytelling, which is a bit lax, and more reliant on moods than on logic.
"Hellions," a "Rosemary's Baby"-meets-"Children of the Corn"-style, what-to-dread-when-you're-expecting chiller, would make a perfect B-movie.
Lifetime spoiler alert: In horror films, such moves never end well.)
A simulacrum of current regionalist indie cinema, full of on-trend tropes (evocative Southern small-town setting, bruised relationship between father and teenage son), Hellion shares a tough yet melancholy soul with recent success stories like Mud and Joe, even The Tree of Life.But soul alone does not make a film, and Hellion is a wispy and timid piece despite its loud bark. Directed by Kat Candler. Directed by Kat Candler. Havok gets a little out of control and injures two of the hellfire goons, while disfigurating another. The ending really annoyed me. WARNING: Major spoilers for Us from the start. A jumbled third act and an indifferent ending ultimately make “Hellions” disappointing. Let me explain.
While I personally view it as an action film/monster movie hybrid and not really horror, I thought it would be a good intro movie for my 9 year old to start exploring horror.
Bruce McDonald’s (“Pontypool,” 2008) latest indie horror opus, “Hellions,” garners such goodwill for Halloween aficionados in the first thirty minutes that it ultimately becomes infuriating to watch the seasoned director slowly squander all of it in the film’s ill-conceived second half.
Wolverine, Sryn, Nightcrawler, Rockslide and Havok are on a mission to intercept the Hellfire Cult. The trials and tribulations of the X-Men are never-ending, but the period of history following M-Day was particularly difficult for mutantkind.
(He’s already fine with jump scares because of Five Nights at Freddy’s YouTube videos). The film premiered in-competition in the US Dramatic Category at 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 2014. The Ending of The Invitation Explained.