HELL BABY WAS HELL TO WATCH!

 

 

Hell Baby, a horror-comedy starring Rob Corddry (The Daily Show) and Leslie Bibb (Iron Man), was released to VOD on July 25, 2013. It will be released in theaters September 6.  Hell Baby is about an expectant couple who are moving into a new house where they soon discover there is something funny (or not in the case of this movie) going on. The plot itself was a sort of cross between Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist in the form of a parody. I wanted to like this movie. It actually had a pretty good number of positive reviews on Amazon so I was hopeful. I am starting to have some serious doubts about those folks who write Amazon reviews.  It had gore, jokes and a naked old lady — what could go wrong?! Only everything.

 

This movie was an absolute mess. The jokes were not funny and for  the first hour nothing happened. The pace was far too slow for a movie like this. Note to the writers: slow burn only works on actual horror movies. We finally got some action in the last half hour, but it was too little, too late. The VOD charge for this movie was $9.99 and boy, would I have flown into a serious rage if I had paid that! I paid zero which is what this movie is worth. I saw it for free with foreign language subtitles but that was a price I WAS willing to pay. So check it out if you don’t mind wasting 90 minutes of your life.

LITTLE MISS HORROR NERD’S RATING: 2/5

 

I also decided to check out the Netflix original series Hemlock Grove this week. I watched just the 1st episode of the first season.  I was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked it. It is show about a small town full of secrets and a murder. I love Lily Taylor and I think the show has a great creepy sort of feeling to it. I will refrain from rating it since that would be difficult to do after only one episode but I will be watching episode two.

 

Rent Hell Baby here.

 

Watch Hemlock Grove here.