Hellraiser

2022 - 10 - 7

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Hellraiser movie review & film summary (2022) | Roger Ebert (Roger Ebert)

Can sometimes be fun anyway, especially if you haven't seen Hellraiser in a while.

It’s always nice to see Abbass pop up in English-language productions, but the poor woman can only do so much with a supporting character who’s more of a prop than a person. That general lack of personality wouldn’t be so bad if there wasn’t so much dead air throughout—seriously, one hundred and twenty-one—which mainly gives viewers time to wonder who exactly these new Cenobites are and why their opaque personalities now have all of the charm of well-restored hand-me-downs. But Riley only steals the box, which horror fans will instantly recognize as a way of summoning the Cenobites, because Trevor encourages her. Riley (Odessa A’zion), a grieving former addict, runs into the Cenobites while chasing after her missing brother Matt ( The cleverest additions to the “Hellraiser” canon will only be apparent to established fans since the makers of the latest movie awkwardly graft a sometimes-inspired monster movie onto the back of a trauma-focused character study. The halting pace, scattered focus, and potent ghastliness of Barker’s movie reflects its nature as Barker’s feature directorial debut, a decent adaptation of his 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart.

Hellraiser review – stylish goth horror remake is as sadistic as it is silly (The Guardian)

An opulently designed, if indulgently overlong, remix of the gory 1987 chiller offers up some effectively gnarly violence.

It’s unusual to see a film that’s not for everyone made as if it could be, as gross as it is grand, hell for most but heaven for some. What’s that much stranger about the is-this-the-best-you-can-do monsters is that they’re in a film that’s otherwise beautifully constructed; atmospheric and polished, made on a scale and with an imagination we just don’t get to see that much any more. It doesn’t always work, and at times it really really doesn’t, but it feels confident and unfettered in a way that so many horror films don’t these days.

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The franchise belongs to the fans. His films The Ritual and The Night House are two of the most underrated horror stories to come out in the last five years. Like Bruckner said, Friday the 13th doesn’t belong to him. This franchise hasn’t had an installment since the 2009 remake which is mainly due to Friday the 13th being in the middle of a tense legal battle. While his vision of Camp Crystal Lake never saw the light of day, in a recent interview with [ComicBook.com](https://comicbook.com/horror/news/friday-the-13th-david-bruckner-franchise-future-reaction-return-reboot/), Bruckner was asked if he would ever want to return for a future Friday the 13th film. Those ideas aren't interesting to me quite the same way they were with the work we did in particular, but I'm a fan of the franchise."

Hellraiser Review: Reboot Is a Real Pain to Watch (Den of Geek)

The new Hellraiser reboot has some fun ideas, but the characters are so dumb that they're not the only ones forced to suffer.

There’s no reason that a remade Hellraiser needs to follow the original beat for beat. It seems that the intent here was to instill a sense of hysteria and paranoia in the audience via the characters’ frenetic behavior, but it ultimately just ends up being annoying. Director David Bruckner (The Night House) seems to be interested in the mythos and philosophical quandaries of the original more so than its cinematic virtues, which proves to be a detriment here. To them, pain is pleasure, so when a group of young people summons them via an elaborate puzzle box, they arrive to dole out some sweet, sweet suffering as a gift from the beyond. In broad strokes, the movie follows a bunch of supremely annoying twentysomethings as they run from an otherworldly evil, screaming at each other incessantly in an ear-splitting attempt to suss out what’s happening to them at any given moment. It takes the most surface-level aspects of the original story and gnarls them into a bloated, forgettable modern horror slog that fumbles the series’ mythology.

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And on that note, the puzzle returns to the aforementioned shape. Because she wants to live on despite knowing everything she has done and all the people she has hurt. Meanwhile, in a bid to save Colin (and to give Trevor the punishment he deserves), he asks the Cenobite to let go of Colin and take Trevor instead. So, he becomes dependent on Riley to get out of there alive because she is the only one with an escape plan, while Voight doesn’t exactly have any plans to get out of his mansion. We know that Voight did manage to complete all five configurations and asked for a boon from the aforementioned God. The most noticeable change to Voight’s mansion is that it has a massive and intricate iron cage around it that can be opened and closed from the inside. And it hints at the fact that if someone completes all five configurations (which involves sacrificing a human every single time the blade pops up), they will get to ask for a boon from the God of the Cenobites. She does discover Voight’s journal, which details the various configurations of the puzzle: Lament (“Life”), Lore (“Knowledge”), Laudarant (“Love”), Liminal (“Sensation”), Lazarus (“Resurrection”), and Leviathan (“Power”). For example, she learns that the container is connected to Menaker, who tries to wrestle the puzzle away from Riley and gets stabbed by it. And the more she searches, the more she puts herself and those around her in harm’s way. Riley promises Matt that she isn’t going to meet Trevor anymore but goes for a supposed heist with him and even drinks and smokes with him, which means she isn’t “clean.” The aforementioned heist involves breaking into a solitary shipping container, in which there’s a solitary vault, inside which there’s a wooden box, and inside that is the box-shaped puzzle from earlier. When he picks up the box lying beside her, he accidentally cuts himself with it and becomes a victim of the Cenobites.

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Desire is a central theme in the 1987 movie "Hellraiser." The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). Its skull is covered with a grid of wounds and carefully placed nails. This type of box can still grant wishes, but only with a blood sacrifice. The most famous monster in the series is still the Lead Cenobite, known as "Hell Priest" since 1988 but having once been known as "Pinhead" before that. Clive Barker's 1987 book's illustrations and a few key details are altered to create something new but identifiable.