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'Bloody Hell': Film Review

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A captivity tale whose ostensible Finnish setting serves mostly to put us in mind of grisly old-world folk tales, Alister Grierson's Bloody Hell saves its troll for the very end but offers plenty of peril while we await him.

Built around an animated performance by Ben O'Toole, who isn't hampered by spending most of the film suspended from rope handcuffs in a dank basement, the pic musters just enough dark-comic energy to recall early Sam Raimi —albeit without the frenzied camerawork that helped make Evil Dead a classic.

O'Toole's Rex gets more backstory than your average trapped-in-a-basement wretch, but in first-time screenwriter Robert Benjamin's hands, what feel like tangents eventually prove meaningful.

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