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Hellions (2015)
Scary for all the WRONG reasons
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!