Hell Baby Review

Interest: 7/10

Acting: 8/10

Storyline: 6/10

Humor: 8/10

Fights Guns or otherwise: 8.5/10

Excitement: 6/10

Horror: 4/10

Nudity: 7/10

Gore: 7/10

Logic: 6/10

Hell Baby is a comedy Drama movie from 2013. It’s run time is one hour and thirty three minutes. It also has some (to me) familiar actors and actresses who I’ve seen in TV shows as well as movies. The Movie was suggested to me by Jack Goldsmith. Let’s see if this movie is worth a watch shall we?

Interest: The movie is definitely interesting. It does horror and comedy in a near “Scary Movie” sense of things, but it’s more scary than funny, although it is still funny, and quite a bit actually. Besides that, the sets look nice, the dialogue is great, and the premise is pretty funny if I do say so myself.

Acting: The acting in this film is a little weird. Why I say weird is that one of the characters blatantly asks the questions we do while we watch the movie like “You speak Dog now?!” and things of that nature while weird things happen. Besides this, it is incredibly good, and characters keep their core values about them, even though they may not be super rich with backstory or caring, they are still at least acting as someone, and not some one dimensional object of uselessness.

Storyline: The storyline is pretty average at best. That being said, it does what it needs to, progressing the story to the next point, and no gaping plot holes nothing that breaks the story. It holds water, but it’s more water held in your hands, instead of a bucket. But all in all this is an okay storyline.

Humor: The humor in this film may not be for everyone, but it was for me. The crude humor, with some witty humor (and a perhaps reference to blazing saddles for bodily function noises scene) I was laughing pretty much the whole way through this film. Hell Baby is one of the funnier movies I have seen in recent memory. It knows when and how to throw the laughs at you (which is pretty much all the time) but without over saturating it, and still keeping the horror element around enough to make you wonder what next may happen.

Fights, Guns Or Otherwise: There are fights all abound in this flick, verbal and physical are all abound the film. The verbal is much more abundant than the physical, but when the physical does happen it is pretty solid, even though they may be short.

Excitement: Excitement is something that could happen a little better in the movie. The little startle scares in the film do cause slight excitement but become dialogue that while humorous, doesn’t generate, or keep the excitement at the same level. It teeters back an forth between trying to be exciting, and just being humorous. It would be a better movie if it did get a little more exciting so that we were actually afraid when the scares and creepy things did happen.

Horror: The horror is mediocre at best in Hell Baby. And it can build any tense moments, almost at all because it throws jokes at the things that are supposed to cause tense moments. It was done okay, but it could have been done better, but I feel like they wanted it to be more humor than horror, which is fine, but it gets muddled, while it’s almost all humor, and very little actual horror.

Nudity: There is some nudity in the movie for a scene or two, but it isn’t anything that is relevant to the movie, and is just there pretty much just because. Also a gag about something sexual going on happens as well. IT was okay, I’ve seen naked for way worse reasons (Looking at you 80’s slasher flicks!)

Gore: there is some blood and wounds that happen, I’d also for this film call vomit gore (Even though it was supposed to be used for comedic effect, is still a bit disgusting to be completely transparent with you. But that being said it isn’t later saw movies amounts of gore. But it definitely gets its point across. And it is entertaining in this regard, if you’re a gore hound.

Logic: The logic in the movie, is okay. It isn’t ironclad, it isn’t some he legal document making sure ant loopholes are ironed out, it just is logical enough that if you let the movie take you for the ride, it seems solid, but upon inspection, it has some problems, and that’s totally okay.

So is the movie worth a watch? I’d say so, probably just one though, maybe show it to friends if you’d like, but otherwise I think you can watch it once and not watch it for a long while. While I did say the movie was pretty funny, the jokes don’t really work outside of it and it just doesn’t seem like the cast was fully invested throughout the whole movie, especially near the end. I give it a 67.5% it’s an okay movie, that I think will be forgotten in time, and won’t hit cult status, and that’s okay. Thanks Jack for the suggestion!