What are the monsters in 'Hellbound'? Despite what the trailer would have you ever imagine, 'Hellbound' features two distinct categories of monsters.
Spoiler alert: This article accommodates spoilers for Season 1 of Netflix's Hellbound.
Sang-ho Yeon's (Train to Busan) latest introduction, Hellbound, plunges viewers into an apocalyptic hellscape featuring extremely buff, Dementor-like creatures who take folks to hell after killing them.
Similar to the reasonable King Kong lookalike but seemingly made from black dust, the monsters don't seem to be afraid to deal a lethal blow (or two). Unlike the angels — whose major responsibility is to inflict a rare type of mental torture, telling anyone when they are going to die — the monsters have a tendency to err on the sensible aspect.
So, what are the monsters in 'Hellbound'?
Not simplest are the monsters ("demons," to be exact) bulletproof, but they also experience the convenience of traveling thru area and time by the use of portals. Able to seem at the most inopportune instances, they generally tend to focus on pleasant the prophecy the so-called "angels" have already learn to the deficient souls destined to pass to hell.
While infallibility is not one among their superpowers, their efficiency remains in large part undisputed. So, what function do they play in Hellbound? How do they push forward the narrative?
The six-episode-long Netflix collection captures the relentless fight blameless electorate like Park Jeong-Ja publish against the harrowing creatures ready and rearing to take near to any individual.
Take, for instance, the tragic story of Park Jeong-Ja (Shin-rok Kim), a single mom who volunteers to broadcast her dying on live tv. It's the monsters who take her away. The filming is coordinated through the New Truth, the sect searching for real-life evidence to back up their parables.
As Park Jeong-Ja's dying suggests, the frequent homicide sprees are far from the best issue plaguing society.
New Truth is a gaggle of die-hard moralists keen to give an explanation for away the killings by way of claiming that the demonic creatures are mere pawns in God's sport. By appeasing God — and becoming a member of the New Truth — skeptics supposedly get the chance to reverse engineer their fate.
Season 1, Episode Three displays that the New Truth founder Jeong Jin-soo (Yoo Ah-in) is all too conscious about the logical fallacies at play.
Having already been visited by an angel, he is aware of that the demons will soon come knocking. Yet, he continues to promote the doctrine. What's more, he's bold enough to ask police detective Jin Kyung-hoon to duvet up his demise — as it would solid doubt on the teachings of the New Truth.
Things take an surprising turn in Season 1, Episode 6, with Bae Youngjae (Park Jeong-min) and Song So-hyun (Jin-ah Won) sacrificing their lives to save their newborn baby, Toughie.
The child miraculously survives the encounter with the monsters, which most likely suggests that there is a manner out of the religious and ethical labyrinth Hellbound so vividly portrays. This hypothesis could be further supported by means of the proven fact that Park Jeong-Ja, the unmarried mom who gave up her life for her kids, comes back from the lifeless in the similar episode.
"Chile anyways Hellbound better have a Season 2 or more episodes because I want to see Youngjae and his wife reunite with their baby, Toughie," tweeted @nurul_hannie. It turns out the show is already talking to lovers.
Hellbound is available on Netflix now.
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