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[[caption-width-right:350:This Halloween, Hell comes knocking.]]

''Hellions'' is a 2015 {{Canadian|Movies}} {{horror film|s}}.

It's Halloween, and Dora Vogel has learned that she's pregnant. While distraught, she still tries to attend a party with her boyfriend. However, as she's waiting for him, a group of trick-or-treaters show up. They don't want candy, they want her baby. As Dora tries to survive the onslaught of evil children, she starts to notice her own child is growing unusually quickly...

This film was distributed on home video by [[Creator/ShoutFactory Scream Factory]].

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!!''Hellions'' contains examples of:

* AntagonistTitle
* BadMoonRising: The children only show up when there's a blood moon on Halloween night.
* DecapitationPresentation: The children show Dora her boyfriend's head in one of their candy bags.
* EatsBabies: The children torment Dora with a vision of herself putting a tiny foetus on a fork and eating it alive and screaming.
* EnfantTerrible: The main antagonists are a horde of beings that resemble trick-or-treaters and want a pregnant teen's baby.
* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:Crazy stuff happens, and Dora wakes up with her mom in the hospital. She is then stabbed by her mother and wakes up ''again'', this time seeing children in a maternity ward. And then one of the Hellions' voice is heard. The end.]]
* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: Halloween
* HumanoidAbomination: While it's never explained what exactly the children are, this is the most likely answer. They only appear when there's a blood moon on Halloween, they can control the weather, destroy technology and cast psychologically tormenting illusions, and they kidnap women and rip their fetuses out whenever they show up. They are unusually weak to salt, which melts them. All this while looking like children in homemade costumes.
* InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers: The children reveal that they want Dora's baby, and their MO is abducting women and giving them fatal C-sections to get the babies. They never explain what exactly is done with said babies.
* MasterOfIllusion: The children have the ability to tap into people's psyches and create illusions to lure them out so they can be captured.
* MindScrew: Try figuring out what's going on by the end. Just try.
* OneWordTitle
* OrWasItADream: Little unclear what, if anything, happened by the end.
* SaltSolution: The children melt if exposed to salt.
* ScaryScarecrows: One of the evil children is wearing a scarecrow costume.
* TraumaticCSection: The children's MO is to kidnap women with unwanted pregnancies, make their fetuses come to full term in a day, rip the new baby out, and leave the mother to die.
* WalkingTechbane: The children have the ability to make any technology nearby break down.

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