Following last night’s world premiere at Fantasia Fest and ahead of its August 23 Shudder release, the Adams Family’s latest feature Hell Hole has a squirmy, wormy new trailer that showcases more of the DIY family filmmaking team’s talents.
Written and directed by John Adams and Toby Poser, with daughter Lulu Adams also joining for directorial duties, Hell Hole follows:
[..] an American-led fracking crew working deep in the Serbian wilderness find themselves at odds with government assigned environmental advisors. When they get approval to drill, the workers uncover the unimaginable: a dormant parasitic monster entombed deep in the frozen rock. Now awakened, it tears through the mining facility in search of the perfect host.
Alongside Adams and Poser, Hell Hole also stars Max Portham (Where the Devil Roams), Olivera Peruničić (Subspecies V: Blood Rise), Anders Hove (Subspecies I-V, The Boss of it All) Aleksandar Trmčić, Petar Arsić (Subspecies V: Blood Rise), Bruno Veljanovski (Eight Eyes),Marko Vučković (Subspecies V: Blood Rise), Joana Knežević and Ivan Đorđević.
Bloody Disgusting, who debuted the trailer exclusively yesterday, also provided a statement from Adams and Poser talking more about their inspirations for the “old-school sci-fi horror”:
“With Hell Hole, we aimed to make a monster movie with old school horror, sci-fi allegiance, and contemporary considerations. We wanted to create a story that is, on one hand, a bit absurd, definitely mutinous, and hopefully transgressively comical. In typical family fashion, our narrative intends to subvert the genre, in this case with textures of biological and environmental horror in tandem with questions of gender and bodily autonomy. We had a slimy good time, and we hope audiences will, too,”
Hell Hole‘s gloriously gory SFX, VFX and creature effects were bought to life by Todd Masters (From, Child’s Play), with his studio MASTERSFX, along with Trey Lindsay of Moondog Pictures (Hellbender, Where the Devil Roams) and the Serbian-based studio Cinergy FX (Hellraiser)
We’re big fans of the Adams Family here at FANGORIA (their 2023 feature Where the Devil Roams is nominated for a Chainsaw Award Nomination after all!) so are hugely excited to check out Hell Hole when it hits Shudder on August 23.
