Portal to Hell (2025)

Name: Portal to Hell (2025)
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2026-08-29
Duration: 1 h 33 min
Cast: Trey Holland, Keith David, Richard Kind

Join us for Woody Bess' PORTAL TO HELL It’s about what it sounds like.  Three chances to see it at the ESQUIRE Theatre-Friday 8/29 at 9:45pmSunday 8/30 at 1:00pm Thursday 9/3 at 9:30pm <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SYNOPSIS After a debt-collector finds a portal to hell in a washing machine at his local laundromat, he’s propositioned into feeding hell sinners to save his neighbor’s soul, maybe even at the expense of his own. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Director’s Statement:<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s my strong belief that movies should be fun. The world is dark enough as it is. If you can sneak a little meaning in there, that’s great. That’s what we tried to do with Portal to Hell. <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A portal to hell appears in a laundromat. People don't really seem that perturbed by it. <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I actually think that's accurate. <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Everyday we encounter evil. Maybe not a demon or an axe murder, but the low-grade hum of evil. There's the American healthcare system, racism, sexism, anti-semitism, homelessness and gross wealth inequality, social media, whatever’s going on in the Middle East. We had a mass shooting every day in the United States, most of us did nothing about it - myself included. There's no difference between allowing those evils to persist and allowing a portal to hell to exist.<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The story follows a guy who’s just weird enough to do something about one of those evils. That is the person I wish more of us were. The one who actually decides to try and close a portal to hell.ComedyPT1H33M2026-08-29USen

Trey Holland

Keith David

Richard Kind

Woody Bess

Lucas Ford

Trey Holland

Tom Watts

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Showtimes

August 29, 9:45 pm

August 30, 1:00 pm

September 3, 9:30 pm