Despite being forbidden to leave the property, Zelda’s relationship with her mother is far from acrimonious-they are playfully affectionate with one another, cradling each other’s faces in their hands and venturing into the verdant forest for rainy day hikes. As such, Izzy spends her days frustrated and friendless, with only the vast landscape surrounding her mother’s reclusive mountain home providing her with any semblance of personal enrichment. Though Hellbender utilizes many recurring motifs present in the Adams family’s work-such as dysfunctional family dynamics and nods to John Adams’ former career as a punk musician-it is certainly the most (literally) fleshed-out project the family has undertaken to date.ġ6-year-old Izzy (Zelda Adams, the youngest daughter and fellow co-director of John Adams and Toby Poser) has been warned from a young age by her mother (Poser) that the outside world will cause her nothing but harm due to her rare autoimmune disease. Particularly following their 2020 supernatural thriller The Deeper You Dig, it appears the Adams have acquired a penchant for horror-a perfect complement to their signature low-budget, home-grown style. With Hellbender, the sixth feature from the nuclear family of filmmakers, confidence and creativity converge to produce something that feels like an alchemic breakthrough. Over the course of their eight-year collective filmmaking practice, the Adams family have continuously honed their aesthetic and narrative interests as artists.
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