Synopsis
Two friends spend all their free time building flame-throwers and weapons of mass destruction in hopes that a global apocalypse will occur and clear the runway for their imaginary gang "Mother Medusa".
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Cast
- Evan GlodellWoodrow
- Jessie WisemanMilly
- Tyler DawsonAiden
- Rebekah BrandesCourtney
- Vincent GrashawMike
- Zack KrausElliot
- Keghan HurstSarah
Recommendations
- 88
Slant Magazine
Evan Glodell's debut has the sweetness of a lullaby reverie and the blazing ferocity of a monster-car nightmare, a first-comes-elation, then-comes-madness structure that resembles that of "Blue Valentine," another tale focused on the commencement, and then collapse, of an affair. - 88
Rolling Stone
Here's a movie that starts in your face and, amazingly, keeps coming at you. That's a good thing. - 83
IndieWire
Despite its meandering plot, Bellflower presents its doom-laden vision as an astonishingly distinctive state of mind, arguing that the end of one self-made world always marks the start of a new one. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
Bellflower is stylishly watchable - even when it's preposterous. - 80
Time Out
In one grease-monkey swoop, Glodell proves that he's a subversive talent worth following. Let a thousand of his future projects bloom. - 80
Salon
Bellflower is a genuine breakthrough, and after its own profoundly flawed fashion, a work of genius. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
It's messy and leaves an unusual taste on the palate, but Bellflower has a strange, ugly-sweet appeal that couldn't have been produced without the schlocky entertainments that have channeled the imaginations of gifted but impressionable kids for decades. - 70
Variety
A likely cult hit among horror fans and a gleeful affront to more delicate sensibilities, Bellflower takes the young-adult romantic-comedy blueprint and subjects it to a kind of devilish origami, creating a disturbed and disturbing parable about young male fantasies, fears and avoidance of adulthood.
