Shudder debuts slimy new trailer for gross-out creature feature Hell Hole

Shudder has prepped a creature feature from the horror filmmaking team The Adams Family (Hellbender), which includes John Adams, Toby Poser, and their daughters Lulu and Zelda Adams. Their latest film, Hell Hole, looks like it's going to be a gross-out creature feature in the vein of Slither and The Thing. August is shaping up to be a fantastic month for horror fans, with a new Alien movie, the latest from M. Night Shyamalan, and now a terrifying-yet-hilarious trailer for Hell Hole.

Hell Hole takes place in the Serbian wilderness, where a fracking crew has been instructed to drill into a specific area of frozen rock. They find something far more terrifying than natural gas or oil entombed in the ice beneath the surface when their drilling uncovers a dormant parasite that soon rampages through the facility in search of a host.

Slimy tentacles, cephalopods, and a giant clam?

The Hell Hole trailer gives away many of the film's grosser moments, as trailers are wont to do. But I'm hopeful the finished product will have some surprises in store.

At one point, a character says that whatever this monstrous creature is, it shares DNA similarities with cephalopods. Another character asks if that means there is a giant clam beneath their feet. Maybe this parasite was holed up inside a frozen clam deep underground? That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about mollusks—or cephalopods, for that matter—to dispute it.

Either way, what this creature is doesn't matter as much as its fixation with sliding its tentacles into unwilling participants through whatever orifice is available. It's free real estate! There's a lot of tentacle stuff going on, coupled with things bursting out of people like the chestbursters from Alien.

The Adams Family has released several horror movies over the years, including the 2021 film Hellbender and last year's Where the Devil Roams. Though both movies received critical praise, the audience responses have been more divisive. Hell Hole looks like a more traditional crowd-pleaser with all the gore, humor, and monster slime one might expect from a parasite-centered creature feature.

Hell Hole starts streaming on Friday, August 23, exclusively on Shudder. To stay up to date on thrillers, sci-fi, and horror, bookmark 1428 Elm and follow our Facebook page and Twitter account!