BnB HELL (2017) User Reviews

The Sloppy Diva

[mikeledo · 2/10 · 1 July 2017]

Willa (Kimberly Woods) is searching for her missing twin and the trail leads her to a BNB in Hollywood operated by a woman who lacks all charm and charisma. She meets a guy there and ...

We have seen these types of films many times. Unfortunately they keep the obvious a secret. Instead of making a good tale by showing us more from the other angle, they spend half the film featuring Willa sight seeing much of nothing. It was a complete waste of time. I am getting ready to write "Junk Film. Don't bother." for my reviews if this keeps up. Amazon has so many of them.

If I am tied up and I free my hands, I undo my feet next. I don't crawl across the room. Just saying.

Guide: F-word. Brief Nudity. Rape?

nothing really happens...

[ant36au · 1/10 · 29 December 2017]

This has to take the prize for the dullest offering of 2017,honestly,besides the predictable obvious, absolutely nothing happens ,not even a half decent jump scare.Kimberly Woods (Willa),goes to a bnb in search of her twin sister who has disappeared,problem is,she doesn't really do any looking,she spends all her time wandering around taking photo's of tourist spots,doing yoga and messing with another guest of the bnb who is as boring as she is. The last 10 minutes or so is a bit faster paced but not much and it's all over as quickly as it started.Give this one a big miss unless you need a reason to snooze.

A generally unimpressive and overly flawed effort

[kannibalcorpsegrinder · 3/10 · 2 May 2022]

Attempting to investigate her sister's disappearance, a woman stays at a rundown bed-and-breakfast to begin her search, and the longer she stays at the motel looking for her she eventually stumbles across a savage killer and his controller preying on guests that stay there and tries to get away.

There wasn't a whole lot to this one that really works. What really works here is the setup of the facility operating as it does under the radar to let the killer prey on guests. The concept of the two operating out of the bed-and-breakfast while using the cameras set up around the buildings signals something is going on at the operation and provides this one with the necessary air of suspense leading into the finale. This is where the lone bit of action arrives with the confrontations providing the type of hard-hitting confrontations this needs even if they're still not that impressive as the majority of the action works only due to what's come before. This is really all that works for this one. Beyond that, though, there are a lot of issues at play. The majority of those are tied up in the fact that there's so little story here that it resorts to obvious and obnoxious padding to get this to a respectable length. So much of this one is built around her looking through the contents of the video camera she finds in her room that clues her in that something is going on with not just her sister but the other tenants at the location. Way too many of these segments aren't that interesting with the bizarre behavior being captured on the recordings just makes for an exhausting and lifeless pace which is based solely on seeing them on the recordings not doing anything of importance during the sequence. That takes a lot of steam out of the film when so much of it comes across as lifeless and unimportant. That wouldn't be so bad if the rest of her investigation was interesting or pertinent to her main reason for being there. While she initially starts off looking into old videos to get a clue about her sisters' whereabouts or talking to others trying to get an idea of what happened, she ends up dropping her investigation to spend time sight-seeing and looking around the city to spend much of any time looking into what happened. This is all compounded by not just doing anything interesting for the majority of the film, not just the obvious padding but other scenes including the pointless yoga session or meeting with her neighbor which tends to hold up the investigation or even the killers' antics until the finale as a result. These issues are the most detrimental and hold this back the most.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language, Violence, and Brief Nudity.

Indie mystery/thriller

[Leofwine_draca · 3/10 · 7 November 2017]

BNB HELL is an indie mystery/thriller featuring a youthful female protagonist investigating the disappearance of her sister. Her search leads her to a run-down old bed and breakfast ruled over by a matriarch who may or may not be crazy. There's a heck of a lot of padding here, including sightseeing trips and the like, which prevents this from being a good film, but the action at the end is pretty good. The main actress gives a convincing turn and deserves mainstream success.

So bad, it's one of the bad list ones

[utahman1971 · 1/10 · 15 August 2022]

Not scary at all, and to actually be put on THISTV, and not as good as Phantoms 1998 to actually be shown on THISTV, is a heck a lot better movie than this one. I can watch Phantoms over and over but not this one at all. Channel changing after I see it is on again. I love horror movies but this is not to me considered horror when the pace is so slow, it puts you to sleep. The ones people call build up for scares, is totally wrong, and it is more a build up to put you sleep movie instead. They are called horror fails.