Hellions

It’s Halloween in a small American town somewhere among fields of malevolent pumpkins. Devilish ranks of costumed pranksters roam the streets carrying sacks of treats and chopped-off-heads while jack-o-lanterns peek out from every window with their mocking smiles. The neighbors’ kids and demons from hell head out for a feeding frenzy at the same time asking everyone along the way, “trick or treat?” Canadian director Bruce McDonald, quite familiar to New Horizons audiences, returns with his latest movie. This time it’s a psychedelic Halloween horror about pumpkins, kids and demons. The conventional story of teen-age Dora with a pure heart and soft skin rapidly transforms into the grotesque nightmare of a crazed cinephile who watched Rosemary’s Baby, Children of the Corn and Home Alone.