What fresh hell is this? Today Fangoria & BloodyDisgusting bring us news of the latest entry in the Hellraiser canon: HELLRAISER: REVELATIONS. The Revelation? It's shit.
Let's not beat around the bush here, they have once more dug up Pinheads corpse and desecrated it. Indeed they've been doing it for approaching 20 years.
The first two entries are still wonderful horror films to my eyes. At the time they reignited my waning interest in horror movies.
The first HELLRAISER brought life to the growing-stale horror genre in the latter part of the 80's, introducing us to Pinhead, one of horror's most enduring icons. But while his predecessors Jason, Myers (and even Freddy) are unsophisticated characters who descended ever further into self-parody Pinhead brings, dare I say it, a certain Englishness.
The second, HELLBOUND, is mostly underappreciated. While obviously not having the freshness of its predecessor, it does dig much deeper into the Hellraiser mythology merely glimpsed in the first entry. And it is that mythology which gives it more mileage than the never-evolving Nightmare/Halloween/13th franchises. Indeed it manages to humanise the demonic Pinhead (and his fellow Cenobites) which is no mean feet.
Sadly after that, with the loss of Barker from Director/Story duties, the momentum was wasted, and the franchise was driven ever further into the ground with each new entry.
I balked at the idea of replacing Englund as Krueger but for me replacing Doug Bradley is many times worse. Instead of Bradley we get a painfully awful rendition of Pinhead from Stephan Smith Collins. And everything is wrong about it. His face, voice and delivery are absolutely jarring. This is in no way the Pinhead many of us love.
After hopes that Barker - who has recently returned to writing Hellraiser in comics - would return to the franchise for one last time, to lay Pinhead to rest, we get almost certainly the worst entry in the series. Worst of all is the idea that this could mark not an end but a new beginning to the whole mess.
Pinhead is (or was) more than a makeup job and cheesy one-liners and, as Bradley is too old to play him, it is time to end his suffering and finally lay the old fellow to rest.
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What fresh hell is this? Today Fangoria & BloodyDisgusting bring us news of the latest entry in the Hellraiser canon: HELLRAISER: REVELATIONS. The Revelation? It's shit. 