Tears of the Hellfire

Tears of the Hellfire is a 2024 American live-action/animated independent supernatural horror action-adventure musical comedy-drama film produced by YouTube, Amazon-MGM Studios, Channel Awesome, SpindleHorse Toons, IAC Films, Mythical Entertainment, Bento Box Entertainment, Chernin Entertainment, Blumhouse Productions, Happy Madison Productions, Pascal Pictures, Spyglass Media Group, Gozie AGBO, and Sunday Night Productions and distributed by A24. The film was directed by John Krasinski, who also co-produced the film alongside Bhargav Dronamraju, Rhett & Link, Peter Chernin, Jason Blum, Adam Sandler, Amy Pascal, and Anthony and Joe Russo, from a screenplay by Vivienne Medrano and Doug Walker; it features the characters from and serves as a crossover between the live-action comedy web-series Nostalgia Critic created by Walker and the adult-animated television series Hazbin Hotel created by Medrano, which originally started off as a 31-minute pilot released on YouTube back in 2019. The story follows the Nostalgia Critic and his friends getting sent to an animated variation of Hell, where they must help Charlie Morningstar, along with the rest of the Hazbin Hotel crew, upstage a rebellion against the malicious Heavenly Council, who often mercilessly and brutally murder Hell's citizens every year to prevent overpopulation without any care or remorse whatsoever.