Upsidedown Cross (USA - 2014) is a film by William Hellfire, an American director who, between 1996 and 2014, directed more than forty films including several erotic films with horror overtones such as An Erotic Werewolf in London, Orgasm Torture in Satan's Rape Clinic, Duck. The Carbine High Massacre and Infamous Bondage Murders. Shot on a shoestring budget, Hellfire's film is notable for a well-constructed script (by the director himself and Mike Hunchback) and good performances by the leads (Erin Russ, David Yow).
The viewer's attention is immediately captured by the charismatic protagonist played by Erin Russ (Porkchop, The Bunnyman). In the film, the actress is Nadine, a girl with a history of drugs and prostitution who returns to her mother (Colleen Cohan), a religious fanatic, to rebuild her life. According to the latter, however, her daughter's straggling life and her malaise can be traced to the Devil. Convinced that she is possessed, the woman turns to an exorcist priest (David Yow) to cast out the Evil that wears her daughter down.
Hellfire's film points the finger at religion and, 
precisely, on religious fanaticism and all that goes with it. In Upsidedown Cross even the bond between mother and daughter is broken in favor of a God who, for the director, does not exist. Here Evil rampages, silently and covertly, in every action of the protagonists, portraying a dramatic story imprisoned in a terrifying context.
The film may prove to be a disappointment for those expecting to see a horror film. Upsidedown Cross is actually a darkly hued drama in which the only horror is that experienced by the protagonist, who is succumbing to the devastating effects of a dazzling, misinterpreted and abused religion and who becomes the mask of Evil. In this sense it succeeds in shocking the sensibilities of the audience.
