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Hellbound Train: Directed by Eloyce Gist, James Gist. If you listen to jazz, you will go to Hell, where the scorching fires of torment are mighty and endless.
- (276)
- Crime, Drama, Fantasy
- Eloyce Gist, James Gist
- 1930
Oct 25, 2022 · 'Hell-Bound Train' is nowhere near the greatest film of its time. But this moralizing oddity is not to be overlooked.
- 51 min
Created by the self-taught African American filmmakers, James and Eloyce Gist, Hell-Bound Train (1930) was largely an evangelistic tool for the filmmakers traveling ministry. The visuals were screened in churches and meeting halls accompanied by a sermon and the passing of a collection plate.
HELL-BOUND TRAIN is arguably the most significant rediscovery in Pioneers of African-American Cinema. The film is the work of self-taught filmmakers James and Eloyce Gist, African-American evangelists who employed cinema as a tool for their traveling ministry.
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HELL-BOUND TRAIN. features a newly-created score by Dr. Samuel Waymon, best known. to cineastes as having provided the moody score (and portrayed the minister/chauffeur) in Bill Gunn’s influential 1973 film Ganja and Hess.
A jeremiad against intemperance, jazz music, and abortion, set on a train filled with unrepentant sinners hurtling toward damnation.
