At the latest since the Winchester brothers raced through the conflicts between heaven and hell for the last time in their impala, there has been little new series food for fans of eerie demon hunter stories such as supernatural. Now Amazon delivers suitable fantasy horror replacement.
The series The Bondsman starts on April 3, 2025 at Prime Video with eight episodes and sends Kevin Bacon as resurrected by the dead Bounty hunters and ex-country singers in the fight against demons and family problems. You can find out here in the series check whether you should put the series on your watchlist.
Fantasy horror at Amazon: That’s what the Bondsman is about
The history of The Bondsman leads to the rustic US hinterland, more precisely to the small town of Landry in the heart of Georgia. Here the bounty hunter and deposit agent Hub Halloran (Kevin Bacon) hunt for criminals who do not want to pay their bill. How dangerous this job is is already drastically demonstrated by the first scene: HUB is ambushed and is murdered – and a little later he wakes up with a slit throat in a motel room wall.
Here you can see the trailer for The Bondsman:
The Bondsman – S01 Trailer (English) HD
Returning from the dead, Hub receives a second chance to get his life in line. Specifically, this means: saving the broken relationship with his son (Maxwell Jenkins) and free his ex-wife (Jennifer Nettles) from the clutches of her new partner (Damon Herriman). Hub’s resurrection does not come without a condition. Actually, his soul was supposed to braise in hell, but Lucifer sent him back to the earth to hunt and kill demons, as a bounty hunter.
The Bondsman: Demons, Gore and Country Music
When Hub Halloran lights a tilt after his hell return, certain parallels to the Keanu Reeves-Horror Constantine cannot be denied. The series mainly impresses a morbid humorIf the bondsman checks cigarette smoke in his neck when smoking casually cigarette smoke and has a funny oneliner on his lips in every so grotesque situation.
Despite its brevity with only eight episodes, the Amazon series is told quite episodically and largely focuses on the fight against a new demon, who escaped from hell. The background of demonic human sacrifices as well as the relationships among the characters and the puzzle as to why Hub’s soul was helled to hell are used as connecting elements of the episodes.
Even if the blum house production is more likely to be classified in the area of low-budget horror, The Bondsman convinces above all With hard violence and enjoyable practical effects – No matter whether slimly sloping faces, disassembled body or lots of artificial blood. The gore highlight is finally found in a demon steam in which Hub presses a rattling chainsaw into his face in the best Evil Dead manner and the camera cuts out this moment uncomfortably for a long time.
In essence, The Bondsman is the story of a dysfunctional family that is slowly welded back together in the midst of hell, while her passion for country music provides an exciting breeding ground for conflicts and connection. And at the latest when the demon hunt becomes a family matter, the mainly urges itself Compared to the fantasy horror series Supernatural on.
Is Supernatural 2.0 worthwhile?
Fans of Dean and Sam Winchester, who have chased demons and other supernatural figures for 15 seasons by American small towns, offers The Bondsman an exciting replacement – but only in later consequences of the seasons when the entire extent of the demon conspiracy is revealed.
In direct comparison, the Bondsman weakens at the beginning of all things on the demon front. As croaky creatures, they have almost no personality of their own and can only be distinguished from the people from whom they take possession.
Due to the brevity of the episodes – they are only around 25 minutes – the characterless opponents are often tracked down and defeated far too quickly. The rapid pacing is also transferred to the development of the characters, which accept the existence of hellish beings a little naturally.
Despite small criticism, The Bondsman is a welcome new contribution to a series genre, which has now disappeared almost completely in the sinking. The unusual Mix of demon-gloss, family drama and southern vibes delivers entertaining horror entertainment, which scores with blood-draining effects and, especially in the later consequences with an interesting expansion of mythology, makes you want a 2nd season.
All eight episodes The Bondsman will be available for calling for April 3, 2025 at Prime Video. The basis for this series check is the complete season.