Hell Baby

Horror, Komedie

Beschikbaar voor VOD: 1 mei 2014

Regie: Robert Ben Garant

Cast: Robert Ben Garant (Reno 911!, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian), Rob Corddry (Pain and Gain, Warm Bodies, Hot Tub Time Machine), Leslie Bibb (Law Abiding Citizen, Iron Man, A Good Old Fashioned Orgy), Keegan Michael Key (Just Go with It, Due Date, Role Models), Thomas Lennon (We're the Millers, What to Expect When You're Expecting, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas), Rob Huebel (What to Expect When You're Expecting, The Other Guys, The Descendants), Paul Scheer (Piranha, The League)

De toekomst lacht Jack en Vanessa demonisch grijnzend toe. Er is een koter op komst en van dat aftandse "Maison du Sang" landhuis in New Orleans valt beslist een leuke familiewoning te maken. Tot blijkt dat er demonische vloek op hun nieuwe aanwinst rust en de hel gezellig knetterend losbreekt. Met de hulp en/of tegenwerking van een bonte stoet personages proberen Jack en Vanessa de satanische krachten het hoofd te bieden en de komst van hun baby zo pijnloos mogelijk te laten verlopen. Maar of dàt wel zo'n goed idee is?

Thomas Lennon en Robert Ben Garant (Night at The Museum, Reno 911!: Miami) ontbinden al hun duivels in deze hilarische horrorcomedy die ze samen schreven en regisseerden. Ze stelen ook de show als Eerwaarde Sebastian en Eerwaarde Padrigo, de twee bizarste exorcisten van het Vaticaan. Een film die alle parodieën moeiteloos van hun sokken blaast.

Reviews

• Villagevoice.com: The movie is delightfully crude in places (including an instance of relay puking) and just plain silly-clever in others.
• LATimes.com: The brain child of 'Reno 911!'s' Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon, this horror spoof features amusingly offbeat characters and a bit of Mel Brooks-like deadpan silliness.
• 1nfluxmagazine.com: Lennon and Garant have crafted a horror comedy that is often quite funny. There are definitely a few supporting performances that truly raise the comedy level.
• Blu-ray.com: Bringing pleasant energy to the movie are Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel as two dim-witted cops one step behind everyone else, while Lennon and Garant slap on Chef Boyardee accents to play Vatican G-men, hamming it up in their own special way. 'Hell Baby' is certainly funny, especially when it goes absolutely berserk in the finale, paying off the birthing event with amusing creature-feature special effects and geysers of blood.
• Dreadcentral.com: In between the big move and the grotesque finale are a ton of laughs. A welcome addition to the horror comedy sub-genre.
• Slantmagazine.com: these guys display a freewheelin' sense of invention that should be watched closely, because they have the raw stuff of major comic filmmakers.
• Slugmag.com: a wickedly funny horror-comedy that explores horror film conventions in such an over-the-top and self-aware way that I'll never be able to take a haunted house, exorcism or demonic baby films seriously again. I haven't laughed this hard since Bridesmaids.
• RogerEbert.com: The cast excels at slapstick humor.

Awards

• Official Sundance Selection 2013