Holy Hell
Seen it?2015 | 89 min | Horror, Action, Comedy
Weeknight Watchearly ratingWhy it’s a Weeknight Watch
With soft box office and little lasting buzz, it's a mixed bag. Fine if it's on; don't plan your night around it.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- One for fans of a good revenge story and anyone who likes comedy with a point. A revenge story, so expect the pressure to build to a reckoning. The jokes have targets, and it hits most of them.
- The mood
- Scary.
- The pace
- Tense from early on, at 1 hr 29 min. Short enough for a weeknight.
- What might put you off
- Skip it if you scare easily or watch alone at night.
Holy Hell is the over-the-top, outrageous, sexually-deviant, blood-drenched story of Father Augustus Bane: a priest pushed too far who begins praying to a revolver and hunting down the gangsters who killed his parishioners. In the vein of recent alternative horror/comedies like "Machete" and "Hobo with a Shotgun", HOLY HELL is a modern take on 60's and 70's B-Movie and Exploitation film tropes. The goal of this feature length movie is to break through every limit set by film, taste and reasonable societal behavior: all with anarchic glee.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsNot counted
Not enough reviews on record yet
- AudiencesNot counted
Not measured yet: not enough ratings
- AwardsNot counted
Awards data unavailable, so this isn't counted
- Reach & staying powerBelow par
Streaming release that reached a small audience so far; still draws a steady audience long after release
- Buzz & cultural impactBelow par
About 39K people sought it out in the past year, and interest is climbing
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Cast & crew
Directed by Ryan LaPlante
- Ryan LaPlanteFather Augustus Bane
- Alyssa KingAmy Bonner
- Luke LaPlanteOfficer Blank
- Shane Patrick McClurgSissy MacFarlane
- Rachel Ann LittleTrisha MacFarlane
- Reece PresleyBuddy MacFarlane
- Austin SchaeferEl Diablo
- Michael RawleyDokes MacFarlane