Born for Hell (1976)

Name: Born for Hell
Director: Denis Héroux
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Horror
Released: 1976-03-12
Duration: 1 h 32 min
Cast: Mathieu Carrière, Debra Berger, Christine Boisson, Myriam Boyer

Drama Thriller Horror

Director: Denis Héroux

Cast: Mathieu Carrière, Debra Berger, Christine Boisson, Myriam Boyer

Runtime92 min

RatingR

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Loosely based on the notorious Richard Speck murders, this is the grim tale of a disturbed Vietnam vet returning home via Belfast, who invades a house shared by eight nurses and proceeds to terrorize and murder them.

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Fans of gritty 1970s psychological thrillers will find much to appreciate in Denis Héroux's 1976 film Born for Hell, which features a chilling performance by Mathieu Carrière as a disturbed Vietnam vet who terrorizes a group of nurses in an unsettling tale loosely inspired by the Richard Speck murders.

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Born for Hell is a 1976 horror film directed by Denis Héroux, and starring Mathieu Carrière, Debra Berger, and Christine Boisson. Its plot follows a disturbed American Vietnam War veteran who, after arriving in Belfast, terrorizes a house full of international female nursing students. The film is set against the historical backdrops of the Northern Ireland conflict and the December Raids in North Vietnam. The screenplay is loosely based on the crimes of mass murderer Richard Speck, who murdered eight nursing students in Chicago, Illinois in 1966. The websites Letterboxd and The Grindhouse Database list this movie as belonging to the vetsploitation subgenre.