Line #29 Film/Hellbenders


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4	''Hellbenders'' is a 2012 {{American\|Films}} HorrorComedy film starring Creator/ClancyBrown and Creator/CliftonCollinsJr.
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6	The Augustine Interfaith Order of Hellbound Saints is a demon hunter organization with... Unorthodox methods. You see, they live a life of constant sin, breaking every part of their vows they can, in the hopes of attracting demons to them so they can be sent back to Hell where they belong. One day, they learn a rabbi accidentally awakened an AncientEvil out to destroy the world. Now, the Hellbound Saints must prevent HellOnEarth.
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8	The film was distributed on DVD by Creator/{{Lionsgate}}. It's not to be confused with ''Film/{{Hellbinders}}'' or ''Film/{{Hellbender}}''.
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10	!!This film provides examples of:
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12	* BadassPreacher: The Hellbound Saints not only partake in DemonSlaying, they ''deliberately sin to attract the demons to them''.
13	* BigBad: Surtr, a DestroyerDeity trying to kickstart the apocalypse.
14	* BlackAndNerdy: Stephen, the Order's bookkeeper, is a black man, and is so nerdy that he has one of every kind of pencil at all times.
15	* CountryMatters: Larry uses the UrbanLegend of L's and I's bleeding together in old comics to call Clint this.
16	* DestroyerDeity: The BigBad is Surtr, the Nordic god tasked with burning the world during Ragnarok.
17	* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler:The Hellbound Saints manage to banish Surtr and aver the apocalypse, but a post-credit scene has one of the experts interviewed for exposition mention that the Hell vortex was mistakenly left slightly open.]]
18	* HateSink: Clint [=LaPierre=] starts off as a stuffy StraightMan who doesn't understand the Hellbound Saints' unusual ways of DemonSlaying, but eventually evolves into an obnoxious ObstructiveBureaucrat who tries to shut the Order down in the middle of their fight against the Apocalypse because he refuses to believe in the forces of Hell. [[spoiler:It takes Clint's nose getting ripped off by Surtr for him to accept the existence of demons.]]
19	* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: Birthday
20	* KillTheGod: Surtr is known as the God-Killer, and his end goal is to destroy the Christian God.
21	* {{Mockumentary}}: A lot of the film's exposition is done via InUniverse interviews after the fact.
22	* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The Hellbound Saints have to deal with a stuffy Vatican representative inspecting everything for the new Pope. He explicitly states he doesn't believe in Hell, directly contradicting mainstream Catholic doctrine, and ends up cutting ties between the Church and the Order during the second act.
23	* TheOldGods: The plot concerns a Nordic deity returning to destroy the Earth. The trope is even referred to by name to describe him.
24	* OmnicidalManiac: Surtr explicitly states that his end goal is to "murder the world." As it turns out this includes God and his angels, a total CessationOfExistence for everything.
25	* OneWordTitle
26	* OurDemonsAreDifferent: These are incorporeal beings that interact with the world by possessing morally compromised humans. When they transfer bodies, they resemble a swarm of flies. They are weak to holy things, and are sent back to Hell when their host body is killed.
27	* PublicDomainCharacter: The BigBad is the Norse deity Surtr.
28	* RulesLawyer: Stephen is mentioned as having once used the Levitican ban on shellfish to claim he's been more sinful.
29	* {{Sadist}}: Surtr, a mad god who exists entirely to destroy all existence. While seeking to do so, he toys with mortals, acting like those he possessed in order to torment their loved ones and poking at people's greatest insecurities, when he doesn't just brutally kill them.
30	* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: Surtr has spent the last 30 years locked in a boy he possessed and locked in a basement. Now he's escaped.
31	* ThrowTheBookAtThem: Larry beats a demon with a Bible to rescue Angus.

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