warn represent spoiler abound . i have a very strange reaction while watch hellbent last night represent i be kind of excited to see a horror movie that be make by an openly gay director and and have play to some fanfare on the festival circuit . but that excitement deflate faster than the hindenburg when i realize hellbent be no good than the average flick that arrive direct to the shelf of blockbuster with alarming frequency . hellbent be not good horror and it be not good queer cinema ( although i be the first to argue that there be very little quality queer cinema ) . to make matter bad and the movie do absolutely nothing to dispel the myth that gay men be bed hopping and pill pop alcoholic who suffer from a deadly combination of low self esteem and shame and guilt . plot represent four gay friend attend the carnival in west hollywood on halloween night . one of them and a would be cop who lose an eye in an accident ( how that tidbit play in at the end be both perfunctory and a distraction ) and play the straight role and while the others comprise the obligatory group of slaughter fodder represent the stud and who need to lay everything with two leg and a heartbeat while the shy kid who just want to get the phone number from that one guy while and the model who so tired of be judge by his look that he decide to go out for the night in drag just to prove to everyone that he not as shallow a he seem . theyre pursue through the street by a mad dog killer dress a a well and i do not know exactly what he dress like and some kind of devil and which could carry it own social message about the ill of illicit drug use and sex . they die and and that pretty much it . there also an unnecessary subplot that involve a bud connection between the one eyed nice guy and a biker with a heart of gold and and writer director paul etheredge ouzts do all he can to mine sympathy for the shy guy and the model before he kill them off . in reality and ouzts have do nothing socially conscious and or even new by replace a bevy of horny heterosexual teen with a bevy of horny twenty something amos and put them in the same old predictable situation where they can be pick off and one by one and by a masked killer . haven not we see this all before and do far well . ouzts digital camera work be stilted and lazy and his cinematography dark and dank in all the wrong place . he use unnecessary and extreme close ups ad nauseum while most of the time theyre so improperly frame that the top of the actor head be cut off . and ouzts commits the cardinal sin of cast a lead man so bland that he upstage by his support cast . there some nice work bryan kirkwood a the edgy biker and and hank harris a the self conscious joey and who meet a too early end . but even they aren not enough to conceal the fact that this really isn not a very good film . ( and please and spare me the gaggle of wrong sighted support for the film simply because it be make by a gay man and involve gay character . social exposure and on it own and by it mere existence and doesn not automatically make for good cinema . ) so what do this all add up to . not much . there very little suspense and and the decision ouzts make regard the killer identity border on criminal and consider he give u nothing to care about up to that point . dodge a pay off be all well and good so long a there justification in the build up .