SummaryIn the Barrio of Oak Springs live a strong and stubborn group of elderly friends who refuse to be gentrified. Their leader, Lupita, keeps them together as a community, a family. But little did they know, their beloved Bingo hall is about to be sold to a much more powerful force than money itself. [Part of Amazon's Welcome to the Blumhouse series]
Directed By:Gigi Saul Guerrero
Written By:Shane McKenzie, Gigi Saul Guerrero, Perry Blackshear
Bingo Hell
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55
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4.1
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
55
25% Positive
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Oct 13, 2021
90
Gigi Saul Guerrero is a Mexican director who works in Vancouver’s thriving female production-driven indie horror scene, as documented in Vancouver Video Vixens. After honing her talent with many shorts, television episodes, and anthology segments, she has arrived as a fully formed auteur with Bingo Hell.
Oct 12, 2021
67
A sometimes clunky but always bold blend of social satire and delirious style.
Oct 1, 2021
60
There’s enough warmth to Guerrero’s script, co-written with Shane McKenzie and Perry Blackshear, to paper over the odd rickety effect or wooden performance.
Sep 29, 2021
60
It gets turgid in its final third but backed by director Gigi Saul Guerrero’s cartoonish punch, Barraza’s cantankerous grimace and hair-trigger rejoinders are a pure pleasure.
Sep 30, 2021
58
The film works when Barraza and Brake are allowed to go all-in but comes up just short of being called a winner when it takes itself a bit too seriously.
Oct 1, 2021
50
Even with the poetic, vicious grin we can see from Brake’s gummy smile, feasting on the dreams of lovable people misguided by materialism, there’s far too little to fear, or think about.
Oct 1, 2021
40
It works hard stylistically to provide a good time. But that would have been a better bet had at least as much effort been put into a screenplay whose ideas, both comic and macabre, remain undernourished.
User score
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4.1
14% Positive
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Oct 18, 2021
4
The problem with Bingo Hell, and Black as Night, is that their very structure and production make them feel like movies that can barely stand on their own. Both films are the latest releases of the more than mediocre ''horror'' anthology: Welcome to the Blumhouse. These two movies, especially Bingo Hell, look like movies straight out of a TV show with the quality of series like Goosebumps or Are You Afraid of the Dark?
That's how simplistic they are.
Of course, they have more budget, but they're still cheap and disposable. This one also has themes rooted in poverty, racial and neighborhood issues, but there's very little to save from them.
After all, they are parts of the story, but not the important thing about it.
Production Company:
- Amazon Studios
- Blumhouse Productions
- Blumhouse Television
- Luchagore Productions
Release Date:Oct 1, 2021
Duration:1 h 25 m
Awards
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
• 1 Nomination
