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Metascore
5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70The New York TimesMiriam BaleThe New York TimesMiriam BaleThis movie has the humor and insouciant pileup of bizarre and disgustingly beautiful images of a cult classic on late-night cable.
- 50The DissolveSam AdamsThe DissolveSam AdamsHellbenders mostly feels like a doodle, an amiable lark that will amuse genrephiles and anyone else with their sights set appropriately low.
- 40Village VoiceChuck WilsonVillage VoiceChuck WilsonAided by capable if unnecessary 3D effects, Petty displays a flair for staging violent action, but he's trapped inside a broad comic set-up that doesn't mesh with the story's innate meanness.
- 40VarietyJoe LeydonVarietyJoe LeydonHellbenders becomes what it intends to burlesque, and that’s not so damn funny, even with 3D gimmickry.
- 38RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiRogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiOne of those films that expends so much time and effort in trying to become the next big cult sensation that it never gets around to simply being a good movie.