Hell to Pay (2011 film)

Hell to Pay is a 2014 blackandwhite neonoir film written and directed by Jay Jennings. The film pays homage to 1950s film noir and 1970s crime dramas.

Produced for 15,000, Hell to Pay is a loose remake of Jennings Loanshark 1999. The film was shot on location, all around Los Angeles, Hollywood, Silver Lake, Santa Monica, and Beverly Hills, using actual buildings, apartments, offices, streets, alleys, parks, shopping centers, and dive bars which added to the films realistic look and feel.Fastpaced and hilariously foul, Hell to Pay is a tribute to such hardboiled, 1970s crime films as Mean Streets and The Outfit. Lead actor Charles Santore does a fine job of carrying the entire film, letting loose with violent outbursts of both verbal and physical abuse but becoming increasingly vulnerable as the story spins to its revengeful climax. Mondo Digital. Films In Review columnist David Del Valle in his review wrote In Hell to Pay, writerdirector Jay Jennings has given us a relentless ride through the city of angels with nods to such film noir classics as Out of the Past and On Dangerous Ground, as well as, the gritty realism of Guy Ritchies films, using the same archetypes of film noir, choosing his leads as antiheroes, with dark agents like Teddy Greene collecting his fees from the doomed folks that owe him their lives. ........

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