If this thing runs towards you and give you a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, You Are Already Dead.
Considering the nature of Hellbound, which is about religious horror, extremism, and a Crapsack World to boot, there will be moments that will really make your skin crawl.As with all moments pages, Spoilers Off!
- The design of the trio of demons. With inhumane faces, black texture, sinew on their bodies, muscular in appearance, and their other-worldly strength. Imagine finding yourself seeing THAT during your day.
- The idea of the decrees. Imagine going about your daily life, then an angel announces in your presence that you are hell-bound at a specific date and time. The sheer paranoia of waiting for the inevitable is terrifying enough all on its own.
- The time-frame is also worth noting. Your time could be take years to seconds. Either possibility is frightening in its own right.
- The Wham Shot at the very beginning of the series. In a coffee shop, someone from a group show their friends a video from a man discussing a prophecy from God, but they fail to recognize a man in the same shop in a state of distress. He keeps checking the time, and when a specific time arrives, nothing happens. Then right out of the gate, three demons burst into the shop, and give the man a divine beat-down. He's repeatedly beaten within an inch of his life, he gets his body dragged across the street, until he is completely immobile and suffering. To end it, the three then engulf him in a bright light, that reduces him to nothing but charred bones. Wow...
- Just the very concept of the Arrowhead. A fanatic and extremist organization that takes the ideologies of the New Truth and crank them up to extreme levels.
- Even worse? This is Truth in Television, there are groups like them in the real world, with radical religious ideologies.
- It doesn't matter how far they run; the three demons will find their target and make sure they get a brutal beating before being sent to hell. Not even killing yourself will spare you from their wrath. In episode 4, a businessman ended his own life before his time ran out to avoid the horrible fate; that didn't stop the demons from beating the shit out of his soul before sending his ass to hell.
- What's worse is that they did that in front of the businessman's friends and family, during his funeral, no less.
- Your newborn baby is dying. And since the cause of their impending doom is so weird, the media wants to make a circus of their slow and painful death, ensuring they'll go down in history as a tragic and pathetic short-lived thing for future generations to mock.
