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Writer-director Brock Bodell’s debut feature, Hellcat, takes a somewhat rudimentary psychological thriller story and gussies it up with smart artistic choices and two stellar performances—even though a third-act gamble threatens to undo the goodwill.

As the film opens, Lena (Dakota Gorman) finds herself in quite a predicament. Not only is she inside an airstream camper, barrelling down the highway, but it doesn’t belong to her. Complicating matters further, she notices she has a grotesque and hastily bandaged wound on her arm. Understandably scared and mad, she begins to tear the camper apart.

That’s when

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