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2012 Sundance Predictions: J.T. Petty’s Hellbenders

This one might be a little of a stretch, but perhaps a decade since J.T. Petty blasted on the scene with Soft for Digging a $6000 feature that was selected for the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. Up the budget a little more, insert 3D technology and add thesps Clancy Brown, Dan Fogler and Clifton Collins Jr. to a genre-twisting nouveau horror film and Hellbenders might be the hot pick-up title in the Park City at Midnight section.

Eric Lavallée

Published on November 9, 2011

#29. Hellbenders – J.T Petty

This one might be a little of a stretch, but perhaps a decade since J.T. Petty blasted on the scene with Soft for Digging a
$6000 feature that was selected for the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. Up the budget a little more, insert 3D technology and add thesps Clancy Brown, Dan Fogler and Clifton Collins Jr. to a genre-twisting nouveau horror film and Hellbenders might be the hot pick-up title in the Park City at Midnight section.

Gist: The movie is about a secret group of elite demonologists in a Brooklyn diocese who battle a terrifying supernatural force that threatens their lives and faith.

Producers: Jon S. Denny, Lawrence Mattis, David Moscow, Mark L. Pederson, Aldey Sanchez (Salvage)
(IONCINEMA.com Preview Page // IMDB Link)

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).