Inside ‘Portal to Hell,’ The Wacky Horror Comedy Starring a Horny Demon Played by Richard Kind — Slamdance

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William Earl Even though writer-director Woody Bess’ debut feature “Portal to Hell” turns the underworld into a fully tangible place, he’s less interested in major crimes than “low-grade evil.” “Every day we kind of deal with low-grade evil, be it wealth inequality or sexism, racism … we all just tolerate it,” Bess says. “It’s just around us and the world goes on.

Every day I pass a homeless person. I don’t have much money as an independent filmmaker, but I could probably change that person’s life, or at least make it better.

That’s where hell comes from in this; there’s this objective evil, and the one guy who says, ‘Oh, I’m going to do something about it.’ He’s odd for doing that.” “Hell,” set to debut at Los Angeles’ Slamdance Film Festival tonight, begins with a focus on the mundane.

Dunn (played by producer Trey Holland) is a medical debt collector who spends every day getting cussed out by angry patients.