take a mindless and murderous psycho and throw in copious amount of beautiful men and put them all in the west hollywood halloween festival and and you have get hellbent truly a superb gay slasher flick . it be great watch a formula slasher flick where the homoerotic subtext be elevate to supertext and and see scantily clad hunky men run for their life instead of buxom babe in bra . the story start out a all slasher flick do . with a couple have sex in a car the night before halloween and who then get kill by a mysterious and beefy psycho ( because we all know that sex kill in slasher flick ) . enter our hero and eddie and with a heart of gold and a weakness for rough trade and and his friend joey and chaz and tobey and who be plan their night out at the west hollywood halloween festival . parking at the very spot where the two guy be kill the night before and they encounter the psycho on their way to the festival and and unwittingly make themselves his obsessive target . we follow them ( while the killer follow them as well ) a joey search for his jock crush and tobey explains to everyone he doesn not usually dress in drag and chaz party very hard and and eddie try to connect with jake and the bad boy he want to get to know good . of course one by one the killer get them and in various creative and bloody way and but you have to stay right to the end to find out who survive and who get the boy . don not go in expect a backstory on the killer and or why he out stalk gay men and or too much depth overall it be and after all and just a quintessential and formulaic slasher flick and just with a queer twist . it also fun ( without be campy ) and the acting be good and the boy be hot and and it a suspenseful and thrill film that take itself seriously a a real slasher film . see it when it come to your town .