Night of the Hell Hamsters

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Night of the Hell Hamsters
Directed by Paul Campion
Written byHadyn Green
Mike Roseingrave
Paul Campion
Produced byElisabeth Pinto
StarringStephanie Ratcliff
Paul O'Neill
CinematographyBen Robinson
Jono Smith
Edited byRob Hall
Music byAndrea Possee
Release dates
  • 23 September 2006 (2006-09-23)(FantasyCon Short Film Showcase)
  • 4 October 2007 (2007-10-04)(United Kingdom)
Running time
16 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
New Zealand
LanguageEnglish

Night of the Hell Hamsters is a 2006 comedy horror short film in which demonic possessed hamsters terrorize a young babysitter and her boyfriend.

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Karl pays his girlfriend Julie a surprise visit while she is babysitting her neighbour's children. He brings with him a Ouija board that Julie has been asking to play with. However, unhappy about messing around with the occult, Karl has deliberately left the board at home. Determined to have her way, Julie fashions a makeshift Ouija board out of an innocent child's alphabet toy, and, when Karl is bitten by one of the hamsters, she uses a drop of his blood to consecrate it. The couple then attempt to summon up a spirit, unaware that they have come up with the name of a demon, which arrives in a bolt of lightning, electrocuting the family hamsters and then possessing their dead bodies, turning them into demonic possessed zombie hamsters .

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