Hellions (2015) User Reviews

Two-thirds of a great movie

[targosfan1 · 5/10 · 31 October 2016]

It's Halloween again and my thoughts about this film, which I saw at TIFF 2015, are as mixed as ever. Bruce McDonald's art-house take on Halloween horror is terrific until the frustrating non-ending. I was loving the eccentric direction, off-kilter cinematography, sympathetic performances, mysterious killer kids, end the whole dream-or-reality puzzle. But then...

I suppose the short run time should be a hint this is an unfinished movie, but honestly what were the producers thinking, letting this be released? Why not sit down with the director, point out this glaring problem, and offer to scare up funds for some additional writing and shooting to finish a potentially worthy follow-up to his great Pontypool.

All that said, I still can't recommend against watching it; you don't want to miss what there is, but be prepared to imagine a third act.

Four for effort

[jonnytheshirt · 4/10 · 14 October 2015]

To be honest I can't really say I'd recommend Hellions. I found merit in it being quite different, having a decent cast and having some cool effects and not a bad and relatively original premise. The Hellions themselves had great potential and really looked quite cool. The movie eschewed normality for quite a surreal atmosphere and visual palette, there was also some cool original music which was creepy. It all got very confusing however between what was dream, reality, supernatural or whatever. By the end I didn't really care anymore as the narrative was lost due to me being confused generally. Maybe some horror fans may appreciate this movie, do not however watch if expecting a child it was quite graphic in some brief scenes.

How about a purple and pink Halloween?

[Coventry · 4/10 · 6 November 2018]

Yours truly is a diehard horror fanatic, but also a sucker for mushy traditions. During the Christmas period I seek out holiday-horror with psychotic Santa's or demonic elves, and on All Hallows' Eve I like to stay in theme as well. And, since you can't watch John Carpenter's "Halloween" every year, it's good to have some alternatives. "Hellions" isn't nearly as good or entertaining as, say, "Trick 'r Treat" or "Tales of Halloween", but I'm nevertheless glad that I watched a genuine Halloween flick with spooky seasonal decoration, gruesome costumes and lots & lots of pumpkins! Perhaps I'm being too generous here, as I was in a festive mood, but I think "Hellions" is a solid film for a mere two-thirds of the running time. Bruce McDonald, director of the - in my humble opinion - heavily overrated "Pontypool", creates an ideally sinister atmosphere and comes up with an efficiently unsettling premise. The rebellious but troubled 16-year-old Dora Vogel finds out she's pregnant, so she's pondering alone at her house while the rest of her family goes out trick or treating. Eerie kids with seriously terrifying masks and outfits soon come knocking at her door, but these little monsters aren't satisfied with regular candy. They want Dora's unborn baby, and anyone who tries to protect her won't survive the night! The set-up of the plot is great, the little demon-kids look petrifying and Chloë Rose is a persuasive young actress. So far so good, but admittedly Bruce McDonald has no idea where his surreal storylines are going or how to lead everything towards a credible finale. The skies over Dora's isolated little town suddenly color purple and pink, along with various other surreal and inexplicably bizarre phenomena, which causes us to suspect that McDonald tries to cover for the lack of content and/or continuity with visual distractions. Nice try, but horror fans really aren't as dumb as some people think, you know! I'll remember it for the handful of authentic frights, but "Hellions" definitely won't become a cult classic.

Horribad.

[montyputnam · 1/10 · 4 February 2016]

This movie sounded as though it would be, at most, a typical horror movie. I was very, very wrong here. Started off about normal (as normal as a Tarantino film at least) and can keep your interest for a bit... but... eventually it turns from a decently average flick to a 'holy crap acid trip OMG OMG OMG', for a lack of more descript terminology. There is no decipherable plot, and whatever deep thought the writer and director were attempting to invoke are lost on the idiocy of pig references and bath salts. I actually gained a headache, and I believe lost brain cells from watching this. Regardless of what 'good' reviews you will read, trust that a normal person is not going to enjoy this movie at all. Unless of course you are on acid.

What the Hellions was this?

[view_and_review · 1/10 · 8 February 2016]

I just figured it out. I like watching terrible movies. Why else would I do it so often? I like them because they give me so much to rant about on IMDb.com. OK movies and good movies are too boring. Everything is so good and well done, who wants to write about that? Give me the unbearable, give me the laughable; I can write all day about that.

This mutilated "Children of the Corn" knock off was about a Gothic, slutty, petulant teenager that gets pregnant and finds out about it on Halloween. While staying at home to sulk about her new, and seemingly baffling situation, she's attacked by (I guess) Hellions. Their name is such a misnomer because they looked like wee little ones in costumes. These annoying little cretins won't stop until they have the child in Dora's belly.

For some reason we're supposed to care about little goth girl during her fight for her life. Maybe because she wore white? The entire time the hellions are staging their attack the soundtrack alternated from "Silent Night" to kids chanting and yelling in unison. What Silent Night has to do with Halloween is beyond me, but the kids "singing" wasn't scary it was annoying. This entire movie for that matter wasn't scary. They went for cheap cinematic triggers such as flashes of random images, sepia tones for about a third of the movie and exploding pumpkins. Yes... exploding pumpkins. Because what drums up fear from the depths of your soul more than exploding pumpkins.

When I wasn't being assaulted by terrible acting and a worse script I was trying to figure out if she was dreaming or awake because they bounced back and forth between the two so often. Eventually I gave up and assumed I was the one dreaming. I had to be because why would I watch a movie like this? This must be a nightmare.

Too arty, way too few scares, a bit of a bore!

[johannes2000-1 · 3/10 · 21 October 2015]

The DVD-cover trumpeted: "A future Halloween classic", but I dare to doubt that very much. This movie follows in the footsteps of numerous Halloween-themed horror-flicks and many times I've seen it better and scarier (see "Trick 'r Treat" for instance). Here the premise is promising enough: on the verge of Halloween night a young girls finds out she's pregnant and devastated by the news she sits at home waiting for her boyfriend to share this shocking news, while being pestered by some trick-and-treating kids from (literally) hell. The first say half hour is quite convincing, the tension being built up and the kids are actually very creepy. Then unfortunately all kind of artsy elements take over: real happenings change to strange psychedelic occurrences, photographed in weird colors (it's Halloween night and supposedly dark outside but with every step out of the door we see unnatural light skies) and nerve-wrecking flashy images. To be honest: it all became a bit boring, while the scare-level dropped to zero. And on top of all this: it takes itself way too serious, we were not granted even one tiny laugh. So my advice: ignore this one and watch Trick 'r Treat (again)!!

Bazaar - and not in a good way.

[emberstonepierce · 1/10 · 9 October 2015]

Unlike previous reviewers of this film, I failed to understand it one iota. I gave one star for the amazing cinematography and use of interesting camera angles and effects, but the plot (if there even was one) appears to have escaped me entirely. Like many of the movies which rack up independent film awards that few of us have ever heard of, this title promises so much and delivers so very little. It's as if someone came up with a good idea for frightening protagonists and got a good director on board but then asked a stoned hobo to come up with a storyline. For us mere mortals (who just enjoy a good movie) sadly, 'Hellions' is a complete waste of time. I stuck with it until the bitter end, hoping that somehow it would all come together or be explained, but alas I was left confused and bewildered. If you're willing to sit through the multitude of dream sequences, psychedelic backgrounds and don't require any sort of plot you're able to follow or even grasp at all, then perhaps this is the film for you.

Not sure what I just watched

[JontheLobsterLover · 3/10 · 6 February 2016]

This movie popped up in an email from Netflix as "something you may enjoy". Netflix, you couldn't have been more wrong.

To be honest, I'm still not sure what the hell I just watched. I thought it started out decent. It felt like I was watching The Strangers, but with children; home invasion and children, two very creepy things in my opinion. The movie quickly turned into "demons from hell" type movie, which I could get on board, if it weren't for the quick turn it made into that direction.

Some people say it's a pro-life propaganda movie, which I could kind of see, but that also may be reaching a little bit.

I thought the acting was good in some spots; I thought the music was definitely creepy (Christmas sounding music with a child like tone); and I thought some of the visual effects and costumes were cool.

What I didn't like were the lingering effects in scenes that looked choppy (the constant shot of her in the hanging sheets). I thought some of the dialogue was extremely lame. And, because the movie kind of goes by so quick, it's really hard to pin down what is actually happening. I felt like the film maker had a bunch of different good ideas in his head, and instead of picking one and running with it, he crammed everything into one movie.

Overall I think the movie could have been so much better. There are definitely good elements there, they just need to be justly presented.

Visually and aurally arresting supernatural horror film

[Red-Barracuda · 7/10 · 20 June 2015]

Hellions is the latest film from Bruce McDonald who helmed Pontypool (2008), a film which showed that he was a director who was not afraid to approach old ideas in new ways. With Hellions, it could be said that he is adopting the same philosophy. Its story focuses on a teenage girl who lives in a town famed for its pumpkin crop. On Halloween night she discovers she is pregnant to her boyfriend and very soon finds herself home alone and terrorized by strange, costumed, demonic children who seem to be after her unborn child.

To be honest just going by the synopsis you could be forgiven for thinking this is going to be no more than a routine horror outing with little to differentiate itself from the pack. But in practice it's a whole lot better than that. This is mainly on account of the stylised manner in which its story has been brought to the screen. Once our heroine is in the midst of her struggles, lots of colour filters are used to create a weird Halloween fantasy land which creates quite a nice off-kilter atmosphere. Not only that but this is one of the few recent horror films that actually makes an effort with its soundtrack too; the score by Todor Kobakov and Ian LeFeuvre is a consistently inventive, layered and spooky concoction. Rounding things off there is a strong central performance from Chloe Rose and decent support work from Robert Patrick.

Content-wise, there's nothing especially new here but the manner in which it is brought to the screen shows considerable care and effort. There's quite a lot to appreciate in the visuals and soundtrack in particular, while the creepy kids are donned out in some imaginatively sinister costumes. This one successfully creates its own distinctive ambiance and that seems like a pretty good enough achievement to me.

Not Bad... at first.

[Krackoon · 2/10 · 19 September 2015]

'Hellion's' is about a 17 year old girl (played by a 21 year old,) who finds out she's pregnant. So, instead of going out on Halloween in her depressive state, she stays home - and the fun soon begins.

It's clear the director was influenced by the film 'Trick r Treat.' Not a terrible film to be influenced by, and the first 25 minutes of this one sets up for something special. So, of course, we all know where it's going, right? Downhill. When the first antagonist arrives, he gives off a nice amount of negative energy, even a little frightening, much like 'Sam' from 'Trick r Treat.' Unfortunately, the film is called 'Hellion's,' so you know you're in for more than just one. Things also happen too quickly - I was hoping for a slower pace, as the not so friendly visitor continued to stalk his prey. But one random dead boyfriend, and injured doctor later, we're thrown into your usual cliché survival trash fest that we get about ten times a year. The 'Hellion's' turn into badly made up 'children of the corn' copies that start doing random crap that doesn't make any sense. One minute they're eating everything in sight, the next they're chanting, and doing karate moves off kitchen tables. Nothing after the 25 minute mark makes any sense whatsoever. It's like the director threw everything he had into the first 25, and didn't know how to complete the film, so he just winged it. And what the hell happened to the lighting? Even the damn lighting is random.

Random Ramblings of a Madman: The first 25 minutes is nothing but a 'Trick r Treat' tease - It could have been a decent little film. But it quickly escalates into something else. Something fairly awful.

Give This One Time And It'll Gain A Huge Horror Cult Following.

[AlukardsCastle · 9/10 · 12 February 2016]

I really don't remember how I even came to know about this movie. I just know that once I saw the title of it online and watched the trailer that I had to watch it. The reviews at the time were mostly overly negative. But I still couldn't go on without having seen it. The premise was strange. I'm a sucker for strange horror films. So I bought it and after two viewings so far I can say with confidence that this movie is not nearly as bad as these negative reviews make it out to be.

First off, if you don't like weird or somewhat artsy movies, then you might not like this. This isn't a typical horror movie like the kind that gets released nationwide in theaters for teenagers to bring their lovers on dates with. Though I honestly wish it would've been released in theaters across the country as this is a visual treat. The cinematography is very well done for such a low budget movie. The musical score is a new horror theme classic for me. The acting was decent for the genre. The monsters are really creepy. There isn't really a coherent plot past the 15 minute mark, but this isn't supposed to be an award winner for best screenplay. It is a art horror film for most of the movie. Sure many will call it pretentious. But this is honestly one of the best surrealist horror films in a long time. Sure the plot might be a bit dumb, but the visuals and overall vibe of the movie have cult classic written all over it. Some of the special effects are silly. Some are really well done for the budget. Right now I'm sure most expected a simple good vs evil straight forward horror film. This one really is that grey area of movies. I'd compare its style to films such as "Paper House" and "Eraserhead". It does seem to partially be inspired by David Lynch. There are even moments that have a slight Silent Hill vibe. I'd say its the American surrealist take on the French Horror film "Inside". It's also pretty gory. It doesn't have an 'Unrated" rating for nothing. I didn't wanna give any plot spoilers as this movie is best viewed without any prior premise knowledge. I'd say if you haven't already, then don't see the trailer either. Just know it's a surreal and strange horror movie. If that doesn't sound like something you'd enjoy, then don't watch it. I can see this becoming a Halloween season cult hit as the years go by and more and more open minded horror fans view it and spread the word. I'm not saying everyone will absolutely love it, but I know for sure it doesn't deserve these horrible reviews it seems to be getting from the get go. I am adding this to my Halloween season go to list. Give this one time and it'll gain a huge cult following I promise that. A B-movie surreal horror masterwork of weirdness. And no I'm not on drugs, like some reviewers say you have to be on to enjoy this. Turn off the lights and partake.

strange and creepy atmosphere

[trashgang · 7/10 · 17 February 2016]

Be warned, not all horror geeks out there will adore this supernatural arty flick. Yes, I said the word, arty. There's a lot done with colour grading in post production and to make it look weird they added some arty shots. But is it still worth picking up, yes.

What I did like about Hellions is the fact that you want to know what is going on and at the end you don't still know what is really going on. Being a horror it is low on blood and doesn't contain any gory moments but it's the creepy atmosphere created with the grading and sound that makes it worth watching.

Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 3/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

Scary for all the WRONG reasons

[darren-530 · 1/10 · 19 September 2015]

What read as quite a promising concept turned out to be a truly terrible movie.

There are at least Three dream sequences, the first of which had a jump-scare so obvious it was easy to see coming a mile off, and the continuity was terrible.

*Spoiler Alert* At the beginning of the attack by the Hellions, one of them touches the girl's tummy leaving a bloodied hand print that appears and disappears at will throughout the movie (mainly during chase sequences) and at one point even morphs into Three separate prints!

The cinematography is very good, as is the costume design which gives the impression, for the most part, that the Demonic Children have literally grabbed whatever was to hand upon their arrival on Earth. with some excellent practical effects, but the overuse of CGI explosions near the end add nothing to the movie at all.

The Practical effects are very good too, but the lack of blood and gore. All of the death scenes (I don't count a severed head as a Death scene) rely on nothing more than poorly executed jump-scares and fades to black/jump-cuts to other characters hearing the screams, give the impression that this film has been made for the 15 Certificate Teenage Direct To Disc market.

Compared to Pontypool this is an exceptionally dreary film, if you're looking for a rather good, well executed and, in places, genuinely SCARY Halloween themed Horror movie then I heartily recommend searching out Trick R Treat instead of this cobbled together, poorly edited pile of pants!

Wonderful up Until... (Spoilers)

[songod-95003 · 2/10 · 24 September 2015]

This was a well done supernatural film that takes the audience on an unusual journey. It is Halloween, it is a Blood Moon, and demons are walking the earth.

But only around the house and property of a lone teenage girl! This newly pregnant 17 year old is the target of pint sized child like monsters that demand she hand over her child. Well the child is nowhere near being born so...

The film was doing wonderful until the end. The end torpedoed any decent rating I could give it. No I won't give it away, but honestly this is one more film in a very long list of recent films to end in the same unsatisfactory fashion.

Note: Many on the IMDb comment forum seem to take the entire film as a pro-life propaganda movie when there is not one discussion, speech, or segment that warrants such a observation. Sure, when she finds out she is with child the doctor says "You have time to figure out what your options are" but that is it. Not another word. And yet... many here seem to think it is some right wing cinematic Christian subterfuge. Nonsense.

Style but no Soul

[scythertitus · 5/10 · 30 April 2016]

This movie is clearly a piece of pro-life propaganda from about five minutes in and while philosophical stances in movies and using horror as allegory is not always a bad thing, in this case it is just too heavy handed and shallow to really be any good.

There is barely any thought given to character or plot and it is more all about creating striking visuals to drive home the message of how wrong it is to have an abortion. Whatever your stance on the issue it does not mean that you can't make a subtler and more thought-provoking film on the subject, otherwise you are just preaching to the converted.

If you can look past the blatant bias that this movie possesses then there are some cool visuals and a dream-like feel that makes the film pretty unique considering it seems like the people who made it didn't actually care about the substance of their product. Still though I can't recommend a movie for style alone so I would give this one a miss, unless you just want to be told what you already know.

Lacks a Tangible Connection To Its Surreal Metaphor

[spencergrande6 · 5/10 · 12 December 2016]

This is some trippy, dream-like metaphor for the fear of young parenthood. Little kids terrorizing a 17 year old who just found out she's pregnant. Does this whole thing take place in her head? It's presented as such, and even if it's not, you know from the way things unfold there's not much reality to the proceedings. This film should basically be a pure atmospheric horror ride but it's too much in the main character's head, a head we don't know that well and we know isn't that important beyond the type it represents anyway.

It's hard to find a tangible connection with this film and I found it hard to engage with the "terror" scenes outside a passing interest in the way they were shot and assembled. They didn't engage me, and in a non-cerebral film like this that's basically a death knell.

Film weak

[calexander-62759 · 2/10 · 26 March 2017]

Stressful and non-nexus film. In several moments we are seeing something that is not the reality and this ends up confusing the public. History could be better taken advantage of! I was sleepy and disappointed! The film is so silly that hardly anyone is satisfied with the ending.

Just bad.......

[ryhawk-63042 · 2/10 · 13 May 2016]

This movie was just hard to watch, not because it's scary mind you. It's a blurry mess of a film, I watched it till the end hoping to find some sort of redeeming essence but found nothing of the sort. The movie continuously jumps around towards the end leaving the viewer wondering which of these scenarios actually happen. Also the director needs to give his head a shake because he seems to change his mind a lot throughout the film which in the end makes this movie much worse. I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone unless you are in the mood to watch a steaming pile. I really wanted to enjoy this movie since it's Canadian so it saddens me how bad it really was.

Hellions: A Surreal Halloween Battle

[sandersdavec · 7/10 · 11 October 2015]

I watched Hellions as the final act of a movie marathon during the sacred Samhain season of 2015. I was very unsure of how this one would go. On one hand, it was directed by Bruce McDonald of Pontypool, an alt horror warlock. On the other, critics and fans pelted it with a mountain of killer tomatoes.

The summation of the negative side? Hellions is an okay movie ruined by a horrid third act. Shocker, a horror film that can't end well.

When in doubt, watch the trailer. Sure, it's an ad, but it shows a little leg and this one looked sexy as sin. Yeah, you can put enough perfume and makeup on anything to mask to the truth, but the trailer got me in line for the ride...

The trailer is no liar! Hellions is a feast of sights and sounds! The town is one of those Halloween dreams, full of the traditions which we can only lament these days. An old house overlooks a pumpkin patch. A teenage girl learns she is pregnant and wages war against evil spirits under a blood moon, as she looks down the barrel of an uncertain future. Which way the barrel is aimed and what it all means are left up to the audience. Fans typically penalize this kind of ambiguity (see The Babadook), but it nevertheless forces you to think and consider the film's many layers.

The story and survival elements remind me a lot of Silent Hill, so there might be a bias there. But that's just it: there's a STORY here! So much meaningless garbage and gore is chucked onto our screens each year, by people who can barely count or spell, that a little intelligence goes a long way! For the bloody and body count crowd, you won't be able to get your rocks off to this one, sorry...

The amazing story is supported by music and sound effects that are on par with films like Sinister, where it is taken to an ambient/symphonic perfection.

All of that said, even I can agree the last act is clumsy. Catastrophic? No. But it weaves and wanders a lot, going for the artsy acid trip and the dreaded Shyamalan twist.

Out of ten: -1 star for not being perfect (most movies), -1 star for a little reefer madness late in the game, and -1 star for juggling and juxtaposing ideas in a way that becomes uneven by the denouement. Still, this film is a solid 7/10 and better than most of the recycled and repulsive junk we get in the horror genre.

And on a final note, I do NOT agree there is some agenda or political subtext. People see allegorical specters and phantom commies in everything. Get over it.

This film is about a teenage girl who is greeted by a young group of demonic children leading to a Halloween she will never forget

[donovanj-53387 · 4/10 · 3 June 2016]

The movie could have been better altogether, the idea of the movie was well thought out but putting it into action and actually making the movie was completely different. The whole idea of a demon child based movie and the whole hell at your doorstep theme sounds like it could just be great but it also sounds like something that could fall apart at anytime which sadly is what this movie did. There were times in the movie where nothing made any no sense and while they had tried to play some things off to make it seem like the movie was moving forward some of the actions taken had just been unnecessary. There was a fair amount of useless bloodshed which seemed to be put in the movie just to remind the viewers that it was supposed to be a horror film. Some movies can pull off unnecessary gore but this movie is not one of them. Although the plot could have always been better it was just ruined altogether with the end of the movie where nothing adds up and everything seems to be, Spoiler Alert: Some sort of dream or something deeper then that which is just utterly confusing and frustrating.

Halloween Imagery... Some of The Best!

[BatesMT · 8/10 · 22 February 2016]

This movie is getting a lot of hate and poor scores, and I am failing to see why.

What we got was a movie that could have easily been a feature in "Trick r' Treat" or "Tales of Halloween". This is a good thing. The imagery and setting in this film might have been some of the best I have seen. The colors and backgrounds that almost made it look like a painting were just wonderful to look at it, and there were times where it felt almost Rob Zombie like.

The designs of the "Hellions" were clearly inspired by Sam from Trick r' Treat and I am 100% okay with that. They were dirty and creepy. Buckethead was my favorite design by far.

People are too used too and too spoiled by the jump scare horror movies that are plaguing the industry today, that when they get a movie built around imagery, they are confused.

This isn't the kind of movie that is suppose to scare you. This is the kind of creepy atmospheric Halloween movie that you can watch in the fall to really put you in the Halloween spirit.

Take what you want when it comes to underlying meaning to the movie, I am not going to touch that. What I saw was a wonderfully crafted Halloween movie, and I am happy with that.

I could go on and try to really explain what makes this fun little movie special, but chances are if you have already seen the movie, then what I am trying to convey will fall on deaf ears, but for those who are on the fence about seeing it:

See it. But go into it knowing the story is nothing new and the acting is mediocre (not bad though), and you will get some silly scenes that seem a little out of place when compared to the rest of the movie, but the overall tone and feeling are clear. Fans of TrT and Tales of Halloween are sure to love this flick. From the opening scene, this movie is Halloween-tastic!

BLOOD FOR BABY.

So much hate.

[sleepholymtn · 7/10 · 20 July 2019]

I will keep this short and sweet; I like this movie. I think it had a good Halloween vibe. It's different, atmospheric and errie. It's got the charm of Season of the Witch done by the guy who did Pontypool. Perhaps it's a little to artsy and ambiguous and people seem too really hate that in a movie. T-1000 isn't great, it's lower budget can show from time to time but, overall, I really enjoyed it and it's on my Halloween marathon list. I hope it finds its audience.

ZzZzZz More Trick Than Treat

[umimelectric · 3/10 · 6 November 2017]

Boring, clichéd teen ghost story/slasher that is more of an exercise in how to recycle tired elements such as overused sound effects, children being creepy, and the whole unborn demon pregnancy angle.

What's worse is most of the movie is filmed in this gross purple-pink filter, which doesn't make sense... and as expected, the main character makes several unrealistic, irrational choices that help escalate the situation she's a victim of.

I feel for Robert Patrick, who now seems relegated to playing the generic role of a small town cop in lame horror movies. His minimal screen time suggests he probably did not earn much for this appearance, though he is or was always a relatively dignified actor.

This movie made me roll my eyes so hard that I could hear it, and incidentally it was the first time I jumped.

Dora a 17 girl gets pregnant and on Halloween night is going to tell her boyfriend.

[scorpionvsrobocop · 1/10 · 12 August 2017]

Hellions is a garbage movie it was so bad that it made me angry for watching it, it was filled with sh!t that didn't make sense an awful pink hue to most of the movie and a plot that doesn't explain itself, this movie should be burned and never watched don't even waste your time.

A pro-life film

[hope_84 · 3/10 · 9 February 2016]

I don't understand the people who don't get this movie. It is an anti- abortion film. Spoiler alert! The trick or treaters are the demons she faces which are is, herself wanting to end her pregnancy. When they come after her and she fears for her life. She will now do anything to save her baby. Is it a coincidence that the Sheriff's wife lost her baby? Who knows. While, I don't agree with an anti-abortion statement as I am pro- choice this movie would certainly scare a teenager into having a child. In the end, she sees's her child she has chosen to have. It's as simple as that.

I appreciate the scary elements of this film and the imagery.