Hellmington (2018) is a horror thriller about a detective who investigates her father’s dying words; the name of a girl who has been missing for 9 years. It is the debut feature film of writers and directors Justin Hewitt-Drakulic and Alex Lee Williams after a big handful of short films.
The movie starts in 1999, outside the sleepy town of Hellmington, where troubled high school senior Katie Owens mysteriously vanished. Nine years later, Detective Samantha Woodhouse, a former classmate of Katie’s, returns to Hellmington for the first time since graduation to deal with the unexpected death of her father. His passing just another tragedy in an already devastating year for Sam: her own daughter was murdered, resulting in a downward spiral of anguish and guilt that has slowly destroyed her marriage and career. Sam soon discovers that her father’s demise is one in a series of suspicious deaths over the last several years, and it appears that the grisly fatalities are becoming more frequent. Even more alarming, every victim circles back to the troubled Katie Owens. Battling hallucinations, insomnia and her own personal demons, Sam struggles to uncover the disturbing truth of what really happened to Katie Owens; a mystery that will lead her to a secretive, centuries-old cult of revenge.
Hellmington (2018) is starred by Michael Ironside, one of the most popular faces in horror and science fiction thanks for his participation in cult titles like Scanners (1981), Prom Night II (1987), Watchers (1988), Total Recall (1990), Highlander II: The Quickening (1991), Starship Troopers (1997), or The Machinist (2004), and more recently in Turbo Kid (2015). Together with him, Nicola Correia-Damude, Yannick Bisson, Jim Calarco, Sharon Canovas, Munro Chambers, Allegra Fulton, Kyra Harper, Phil Luzi, Adam MacDonald, Monica Parker, Corey Pascall, Angelica Stirpe and John Clifford Talbot form the main cast.
Hellmington (2018) has been screened in Canadian film festivals including Forest City Film Festival, Digi60 Filmmakers Film Festival and Blood In The Snow Film Festival. Now, it is scheduled for a Video on Demand and DVD release in September. Watch here the official trailer for the movie:
