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Kevin Bacon’s Gory Horror Comedy ‘The Bondsman’ Sputters Out After a Strong Start: TV Review
Kevin Bacon's gory Amazon horror comedy 'The Bondsman' sputters out after a strong start.
Produced by genre mainstay Blumhouse, the action-horror hybrid stars Kevin Bacon in the titular role as Hub Halloran, a fugitive hunter who abruptly switches employers when he’s murdered and brought back to life. He already has a hyper-Bostonian nemesis, his ex-wife’s current boyfriend Lucky (Damon Herriman, an Aussie doing a truly lamentable accent); now he has a boss, Midge (Jolene Purdy), who gathers souls for Satan on the side of her home bakery business. Hub initially has his throat slit by some of Lucky’s hired goons, and from the moment he wakes up inside of a wall before smoking a cigarette out of his still-open wound, “The Bondsman” works best when it leans into a macabre sense of humor.
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