Okay, let's ignore all the people berating and cursing Destination America for trying to lie to them. "Helltown" is just a movie depicted as a documentary; just as "The Blair Witch" and "Paranormal Activity" were passed as "found footage" films. If anything, the style of movie making makes the flick more terrifying because it preys on the fears of people on conspiracies, environmental poisoning and the paranormal. Of course, the flick isn't true, but if you're going to obsess on that, you're really going to miss how inventive this.
The movie depicts a conspiracy theorist named Terry Greenbaum, who believes the closing of Boston Township, Ohio by the government was to cover up the existence of a mysterious creature. Sure, the story is far-fetched. Of course, none of the people are real, and the incidents are definitely fictional, but once I accepted the plot, I just sat back and enjoyed the story. This is actually a really brilliantly conceived plot, and it's crafted by a good script and actors in recreations and dramatizations. It does get preposterous in parts, but then so did the old Universal and Hammer monster movies at times. Just forget attacking "Helltown '' because its depicted as a documentary and accept it as a monster movie. I don't know of anyone cursing the "Blair Witch" films for not being true. Everyone knows they're films. Is "Helltown" really deserving of being lambasted for being inventive in its manner of story-telling?
I think not.
The movie depicts a conspiracy theorist named Terry Greenbaum, who believes the closing of Boston Township, Ohio by the government was to cover up the existence of a mysterious creature. Sure, the story is far-fetched. Of course, none of the people are real, and the incidents are definitely fictional, but once I accepted the plot, I just sat back and enjoyed the story. This is actually a really brilliantly conceived plot, and it's crafted by a good script and actors in recreations and dramatizations. It does get preposterous in parts, but then so did the old Universal and Hammer monster movies at times. Just forget attacking "Helltown '' because its depicted as a documentary and accept it as a monster movie. I don't know of anyone cursing the "Blair Witch" films for not being true. Everyone knows they're films. Is "Helltown" really deserving of being lambasted for being inventive in its manner of story-telling?
I think not.