Official Selection: Fantasia International Film Festival— Winner Best Actress, Best Score, Fantastic Fest, Sitges Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival
HELLBENDER
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Runtime: 86 min
Year: 2021
Language: English
Rating: NA
Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thrillers and the supernatural, unveils today the first trailer, poster art, and released day for the upcoming Shudder Original Hellbender, premiering exclusively on the platform on Thursday, Feb. 24.
The latest film from the upstate N.Y. filmmaker family The Adams, Hellbender is written, directed, produced, scored, and edited by Toby Poser, John Adams, and Zelda Adams (The Deeper You Dig) — who also star, alongside Lulu Adams. It’s the sixth feature from Wonder Wheel Productions, the family-run production company founded by Poser and Adams and their children, and the family also produced the music for the feature with tracks from their experimental punk band H6LLB6ND6R.
In Hellbender, 16-year-old Izzy (Zelda Adams) suffers from a rare illness that has kept her isolated on a mountaintop with her mother (Toby Poser) her whole life. As Izzy begins to question her sickness, she pushes back against her confinement and secretly befriends Amber (Lulu Adams), another girl living on the mountain, but her newfound happiness is derailed after she eats a live worm as part of a juvenile game and finds an insatiable and violent hunger awakened within her. To understand the hunger, Izzy must learn the dark secrets of her family's past and the ancient power in her bloodline.
I had a chance to see this fantastic film last year and also had the privilege to speak with the three talented people involved in the making of the film Toby Poser, John Adams & Zelda Adams.
It was a great pleasure to get an idea of what hard work went into making this great film!
But here is the trailer and it's so fantastic!!
Below are exclusive stills from the film!
