Richard Hatch, portraying an evil antagonist who's basically the Leland Gaunt of bingo, rolls into a small U.S. town with designs on corrupting and killing off its impoverished residents via loaded cash prizes in "Bingo Hell", an almost aggressively mediocre dramedy-horror that really doesn't warrant the involvement of one of Rob Zombie's greatest collaborators. Hatch is wasted on this material, although I have to give credit to Adriana Barraza and L. Scott Caldwell, whose work as the geriatric protagonists who mount a fightback against Hatch's corrupt invader is more than the movie itself deserves. If I'm gonna give the movie credit for anything, however, it will be for at least having the sense to keep it concise; at just shy of 85 minutes, it remains tolerable.
