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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. [2]
Hell Hole was released in Canada on July 29, 2024 as part of the 28th Fantasia International Film Festival. [3] It was released in the United States on August 23, 2024. [3]
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. [2] 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]