Bloody hell, ‘Bloody Hell’ is fun

A review of the new horror film, on demand now

Bloody Hell begins in a bank in Boise. The roguish Rex (Ben O’Toole) is hitting on a teller when suddenly: masked men burst in the door, shoot a security guard, and order everyone down on the ground. While cowering behind a pillar, Rex notices that the woman next to him has a gun peeking out of her purse. He motions for her to use it, but she declines, holding her purse up for the wallet-snatching robbers to take. The masked man fumbles it and it lands right in Rex’s lap.

Eight years later, Rex is released from jail, where he’s done time thanks to an innocent person who lost their life when he went on a rampage in the bank and killed their captors. He’s sick of his infamy, frustrated by his face peering out at him from tabloid magazine covers, and tired of being trailed by paparazzi eager to hear more about what went down in that bank. And, oh yeah, he has visions of a twin who provides his inner monologue, speaking his thoughts out loud.

While he was locked up, Rex blew a spitball at a map and landed on Finland. He blew a second spitball at that map and also landed on Finland. So, fed up with his newfound fame, he buys a plane ticket bound for Helsinki. An old couple at the airport keeps giving him looks, and someone tells him they were talking about him…