Hellions
Dora is an average teenager that just wants to have fun and get high with her boyfriend Jace on Halloween. She's stunned when her doctor Henry tells her that she's four weeks pregnant, something that she says shouldn't be possible.
5 November 1958, Marietta, Georgia, USA
10 November 1994, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
25 October 1994, Canada
25 September 1978, Vancouver, Canada
12 April 2003, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
12 May 1977, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
September 25, 2015
The scare factor wears down pretty quickly.
September 24, 2015
In its best moments, Hellions is interesting and perplexing and worth soaking in, in the sense that one would admire a Hieronymus Bosch-inspired painting. But without at least one foot on the ground, it doesn't inspire fear.
April 01, 2017
McDonald doesn't want you to have fun, he wants you to be about as uncomfortable as Dora is and, for the most part, he succeeds.
September 22, 2015
Hellions is a bigger Halloween bust than the house that gives out dental floss to trick 'r treaters.
February 21, 2016
No matter how good these aesthetic tropes are at cultivating fear, however, the content inevitably falls prey to nervous laughter before sadly devolving further into eye-rolls.
September 25, 2015
This creepfest initially serves up some good horror-flick fun, but seems to lose the plot as the wind kicks up and the sky changes colour and the chase goes on and on ...
September 19, 2015
A perfect, light midnight movie that should go great with light drinks, good company, and a warm blanket.
October 01, 2015
It's all fairly preachy nonsense, and never as cerebral as McDonald thinks it is.
September 17, 2015
As the terror shifts from suggested to explicit, the eeriness wanes and this supernatural story becomes muddled.
September 18, 2015
A half-cocked fusion of Rosemary's Baby and a home invasion flick.
September 17, 2015
"Hellions" is art book horror, something to flip through but never truly eerie or scary.
