Hell Hole (2024 film)
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Hell Hole is a 2024 monster horror-thriller film directed by John Adams and Toby Poser. Its plot features a fracking team stationed in Serbia that encounters a strange and threatening creature.[1]
Cast
- Toby Poser as Emily
- John Adams as John
- Maximum Portman as Teddy
- Anders Hove as French Captain
- Marko Filipović as French Soldier
- Olivera Peruničić as Sofija
- Aleksandar Trmčić as Nikola
- Petar Arsić as Danko
- Bruno Veljanovski as Christian
- Boris Lukman as Filip
- Janko Radišić as Bosko
- Marko Vučković as Luka
- Joana Knežević as Mickey
- Ivan Đorđević as Ivan
- Fedor Đorović as Petar
- Marina Gunjača as Roma Woman
Release
Hell Hole was released in Canada on July 29, 2024 as part of the 28th Fantasia International Film Festival.[2] It was released in the United States on August 23, 2024.[3]
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 83% of 41 critics' reviews are positive. The website's consensus reads: "Hell Hole pokes much needed life into an aging genre, going back to basics and delivering the gory goods."[4] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 62 out of 100, based on 10 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[5]
Brian Tallerico of RogerEbert.com gave the film 2.5 stars out of 4, praising its gore and humor, but saying that it's "kind of a disappointment" compared to the other films of John Adams and Toby Poser.[1] Matthew Jackson of Paste gave the film a mildly positive review, saying that it rides "a fascinating tonal line between black comedy and sincere character drama."[6] Catherine Bray of The Guardian gave the film 3 stars out of 5, calling it "mostly satisfying" and "a committed piece of indie genre work with a suitably silly sense of the macabre."[7]
References
- ^ a b "Hell Hole review". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved September 28, 2025.
- ^ https://2024.fantasiafestival.com/en/film/hell-hole
- ^ https://nerdist.com/article/hell-hole-review-fantasia-fest-2024/
- ^ "Hell Hole". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved September 28, 2025.
- ^ "Hell Hole". Metacritic. Fandom, Inc. Retrieved September 28, 2025.
- ^ "The Adams Family Takes on Creature Features with the Wonderfully Goopy Hell Hole". Paste Magazine. Retrieved September 28, 2025.
- ^ "Hell Hole review – creature feature is fracking fun". The Guardian. Retrieved September 28, 2025.