Hellmouth

2014

Action / Horror

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 33%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 33%
IMDb Rating 5.2/10 10 557 557

Plot summary

A gravekeeper is drawn into a hell dimension to save the soul of a beautiful woman.

Director

John Geddes Photo
John Geddes

Top cast

Boyd Banks Photo
Boyd Banks as Fred Whinny
Steven McChattie Photo
Steven McChattie as Charlie Baker / The Barda
Bruce McDonald Photo
Bruce McDonald as Paul Kemp
Siobhan Murphy Photo
Siobhan Murphy as Fay
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
802.76 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 27 min
Seeds 1
1.61 GB
1920*800
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 27 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Wizard-8

It thinks weirdness is substance

I picked up this movie from my local library without knowing anything about it other than the brief plot synopsis on the back of the DVD case. While it's not one of the worst movies I have ever seen, it's definitely one of the strangest I have seen. And that explains the main problem I had with the movie - it is so determined to be strange and murky that it doesn't give the audience anything to hang on to. The characters are vague; you hardly learn a thing about them. And it doesn't take long for the plot to become all but incomprehensible. As a result, it was hard for me to care about what was going on. Sure, it's visually striking at times, as well as being fairly slick despite what had to be a really low budget. I just wish that the filmmakers had put as much work into the script as they did with the visuals. It didn't come as a surprise when the end credits revealed it was a Canadian movie - it has that Canadian feel as well as pretentious attitude you often get in Canadian cinema. (Though at least the Canadian government's film funding agency didn't waste any of my tax dollars on this particular movie.) Maybe this might have worked as a short subject, but as a feature film it's pretty deadly.
Reviewed by thrax-23316 5 / 10

Had potential but...

This could have been a good flick but the story was too muddled. At the end of it, I find myself asking, what was the point of it?!The CG / effects are hair better than a typical SciFi channel movie; with a bigger budget, the film's visuals could have been outstanding. As it is, sometimes they're interesting and other times they're almost distractingly bad.As far as the acting, Stephen McHattie certainly stands out in a good way, but the rest of the cast are pretty standard and not all that interesting. Unfortunately, McHattie can't make up for the film's drawbacks, and ultimately what drags the film down is any lack of coherence or depth to the plot. The teaser "Hellmouth is about a gravekeeper who is drawn into a hell dimension to save the soul of a beautiful woman" sums the film up completely, and sadly, there's not really any depth to the story beyond this statement. This is one of those films that felt like it could have had real vision, but failed due to a lack of focus by the film maker.
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