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| Dylan Fergus in Hellbent |
HellBent
2004
In just about every slasher film ever made, there’s at least one couple who gets shredded while having sex in some out-of-the way spot. And HellBent is no exception. What makes it exceptional is something else entirely: Everyone in it is a gay man, and they’re all having sex with apparently no guilt, remorse or second thoughts.
HellBent was the brainchild of writer-director Paul Etheredge-Ouzts and Joseph Wolf (Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street). It’s set at West Hollywood‘s Halloween Carnival and focuses on a group of gay men just trying to make it through the night without getting killed. There’s no gay-bashing angle, just your standard teen slasher flick with hot gay men standing in for hetero teens.
One couple gets killed after having sex in a car, and the lead guy and his new fella have a big sex scene at the end before the killer attacks them. As ever in slasher flicks, the wages of sex are apparently violent death, but it’s the sexual orientation-neutral approach that makes HellBent a queer film first.
Hotness: 5
Romance: 5
Significance: 10
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