Hellbender

"Hellbender" (2021) is a US indie horror you can watch online on iFILM. The Adams family — John Adams, Zelda Adams, and Toby Poser — directed, starred in, and scored the film themselves. Sixteen-year-old Izzy lives deep in the woods with her mother, kept away from other people under the pretense of an immune disorder.

A chance meeting with a local girl leads Izzy to eat a live worm on a dare. Something shifts after that — an insatiable hunger, a pull toward cruelty she hadn't felt before. Her mother has been keeping secrets. Quietly unsettling rather than loud, it's a horror film about the weight of what gets passed down through blood. Stream "Hellbender" online on iFILM.