Shudder - Hellbender : Shudder Original Film Premieres Exclusively Feb. 24

By Mulder, 14 january 2022

In Hellbender, 16-year-old Izzy (Zelda Adams) suffers from a rare illness that has kept her isolated on a mountaintop with her mother (Toby Poser) her whole life. As Izzy begins to question her sickness, she pushes back against her confinement and secretly befriends Amber (Lulu Adams), another girl living on the mountain, but her newfound happiness is derailed after she eats a live worm as part of a juvenile game and finds an insatiable and violent hunger awakened within her. To understand the hunger, Izzy must learn the dark secrets of her family's past and the ancient power in her bloodline.
 

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thrillers and the supernatural, will exclusively premiere the critically acclaimed released Shudder Original Hellbender on Thursday, February  24.

The latest film from the upstate N.Y. filmmaker family The Adams, Hellbender is written, directed, produced, scored, and edited by Toby Poser, John Adams, and Zelda Adams (The Deeper You Dig) — who also star, alongside Lulu Adams. It’s the sixth feature from Wonder Wheel Productions, the family-run production company founded by Poser and Adams and their children, and the family also produced the music for the feature with tracks from their experimental punk band H6LLB6ND6R.

Synopsis : 
Izzy is a teenager who lives with her mother in a house deep in the Catskill Mountains. Such isolation is no accident: Izzy's mother has worked hard to keep her daughter away from society since she was five years old, for her own protection... and that of others. Mother and daughter are best friends, spending their time teaching each other things or playing music - their rock band is called H6LLB6ND6R. But as Izzy grows up, she begins to venture out into the city to spend time with others. A thirst for knowledge awakens in her: knowledge of herself, and knowledge of her family, which has roots in... witchcraft.

Hellbender
Written and directed by John Adams, Zelda Adams, Toby Poser
Produced by Toby Poser 
Starring Zelda Adams, Toby Poser, Lulu Adams, John Adams, Rinzin Thonden, Khenzom, Shawn Wilson, Judy Rosen
Music by John Adams
Cinematography : John Adams , Zelda Adams
Edited by John Adams 
Production companies : Yellow Veil Pictures
Release date : August 14, 2021 (Fantasia), February 24, 2022 (United States)
Running time : 83 minutes