It’s tough luck to release a movie about a body-hopping, Lovecraftian, parasite in the same month Ridley Scott’s Alien franchise comes roaring back to life. After all, only a great work of sci-fi horror could survive in the shadow of a hulking Xenomorph. (David Cronenberg’s body-horror masterpiece The Fly buzzed into theaters mere weeks after Aliens, for example, giving it just enough oxygen to stand out.) Unfortunately, Hell Hole, which is streaming now on Shudder, is not a great work of sci-fi horror. Not even close.
