In the Barrio of Oak Springs live a strong and stubborn group of elderly friends who refuse to be gentrified. Their leader, Lupita, keeps them together as a community, a family. But little did they know, their beloved Bingo hall is about to be sold to a much more powerful force than money itself.... (Full plot summary below)
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In the Barrio of Oak Springs live a strong and stubborn group of elderly friends who refuse to be gentrified. Their leader, Lupita, keeps them together as a community, a family. But little did they know, their beloved Bingo hall is about to be sold to a much more powerful force than money itself.
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| Film ThreatMichael Talbot-HaynesGigi Saul Guerrero is a Mexican director who works in Vancouver’s thriving female production-driven indie horror scene, as documented in Vancouver Video Vixens. After honing her talent with many shorts, television episodes, and anthology segments, she has arrived as a fully formed auteur with Bingo Hell. |
| The A.V. ClubKatie RifeA sometimes clunky but always bold blend of social satire and delirious style. |
| The IndependentClarisse LoughreyThere’s enough warmth to Guerrero’s script, co-written with Shane McKenzie and Perry Blackshear, to paper over the odd rickety effect or wooden performance. |
| The PlaylistBrian TallericoThe film works when Barraza and Brake are allowed to go all-in but comes up just short of being called a winner when it takes itself a bit too seriously. |
| The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisDespite the generally humorous vibe, Bingo Hell quietly accumulates an unignorable pathos. |
| The GuardianPhil HoadIt gets turgid in its final third but backed by director Gigi Saul Guerrero’s cartoonish punch, Barraza’s cantankerous grimace and hair-trigger rejoinders are a pure pleasure. |
| RogerEbert.comNick AllenEven with the poetic, vicious grin we can see from Brake’s gummy smile, feasting on the dreams of lovable people misguided by materialism, there’s far too little to fear, or think about. |
| VarietyDennis HarveyIt works hard stylistically to provide a good time. But that would have been a better bet had at least as much effort been put into a screenplay whose ideas, both comic and macabre, remain undernourished. |
| User ReviewJLauCommunity of old folks have their bingo hall bought over by an evil force that kills them when they win the big prizes. |
| User ReviewJLuis_001The problem with Bingo Hell, and Black as Night, is that their very structure and production make them feel like movies that can barely stand on their own. Both films are the latest releases of the more than mediocre ''horror'' anthology: Welcome to the Blumhouse. These two movies, especially Bingo Hell, look like movies straight out of a TV show with the quality of series like Goosebumps or Are You Afraid of the Dark? That's how simplistic they are. Of course, they have more budget, but they're still cheap and disposable. This one also has themes rooted in poverty, racial and neighborhood issues, but there's very little to save from them. After all, they are parts of the story, but not the important thing about it. |
