I'm old enough to remember the original Hellraiser (1987). That was a true horror film. There were horrible people, doing horrible things. It left you feeling really quite disturbed about the worst aspects of human nature.
The follow-up Hellraiser 2 (1988) managed to recapture a small part of that. But after that it was downhill fast. The sequels were nothing but parodies.
Well, for some reason, Hulu decided to remake it.
Shamefully, the film fails on nearly every level. It's not well written (terrible dialogue) and poorly acted. There's little horror and you simply do not care about anyone or anything happening in it. It doesn't give you a reason to care either. The Cenobites are not scary, or grotesque looking... they just look like cheap make-up and some bad CGI.
Like the later Hellraiser films It has more in common with trashy slasher flicks than anything else. Poorly done ones at that.
As is common today they gender-switched the main role. Did it add anything? Nope. In fact, I keep hearing about what a good performance Jamie Clayton was as The Priest. I don't know what they were watching. There isn't a performance, it's literally all make up and some lines read out flat. Look at the originals: Pinhead's character is all about small, slow movements and looming dread. He's literally an overwhelming threat and you are the prey. Not in this one though.
Or look at the secondary villain. In the original it's Uncle Frank, who is an awful person who fully deserves his fate. Even in the end as he's pulled apart by the Cenobites... he's drawn to it, and much as he tried to run he still wants what the Cenobites offer. In this new version... there's none of that same grimy, disturbing look into subcultures. It's all clean, boring and badly acted.
Watch Hellraiser (1987) and Hellraiser 2 (1988) and stop there. They did it better on much smaller budgets.
3 Thoughts After Watching ‘Hellraiser’:
After all these years, it’s nice to understand more, certainly not completely, what the heck that damn box is all about. I very much appreciated a more linear, fleshed-out story with this incredible mythology.
While this new film got creative with the gore, there’s something about the practical effects from the original that unsettled me a bit more.
I missed Bradley’s iconic Pinhead vocals, but I’m very pleased with Clayton’s take here. Her presence was different, yet strong and formidable. I’d definitely like to see her return to the role.
Bonus Thought: I loved the way the doors to the other realm opened up in various scenes, especially in the back of the truck.
You’re less likely to enjoy this the further away you are from its target audience.
It leans more towards the Saw side than the Scream side of teenage horror; it’s really vapid and witless.
A little less edgy and angsty perhaps, and it uses more of a goth aesthetic, but still so much of it feels contrived and cliché nevertheless.
Some interesting visual ideas here and there, but also a lot of wonky acting, cheesy dialogue, uninteresting characters, awkward pacing, odd editing choices and underlit scenes (yes, I did take into account that this is a horror movie).
It manages to build some scary atmosphere at points (props for not relying on jump scares), however I never felt completely engaged by it.
Maybe that’s due to me not being the target audience, but then again we also just got Bodies, Bodies, Bodies, which is a lot better and you should probably watch instead.
4/10
I had fun watching it..if you saw the trailer then you knew what to expect. I just miss the way you felt a little dirty after watching the original for the first time lol
Another disappointing experience that softens the sadomasochistic implications of the original to follow a less disturbing and much more conventional path. It's the reinvention of tame horror, because it feels more creative on the surface than deep down, coming up with interesting atmospheric solutions without building a mythology that actually brings real purpose to the cenobites as a reflection of human desires.
Way better than expected. Worth a watch. But at least watch the Original first.
A summary of the film;
-What happened?
-I dont know!!
Never been a fan of the Hellraiser franchise watched the original a few years back and thought apart from the practical effects and Cenobites it was boring as hell (pun intended). Now this is something that's not boring as hell I had a good time lots of gore, the box makes sense for once and we get to see the Cenobites for more than 2 minutes. The Cenobite costumes are eye candy so much attention to detail I had to put it on pause a few times to get a better look at the costumes. Pinhead looks like a horror icon more than ever! Couldn't see any fails in the CGI they did a good job with that. It feels like a slow burn in some parts but when there's action it's quite effective and entertaining. My favorite scene was what happened in the back of the van.
On the other hand the acting is questionnable, the characters lack depth and the movie went on for 30 mins too long. Also I have to give it to the original the gore and practical effects were on another level it was so much more effective and gross.
Overall this left me satisfied and I would definitely like a sequel.
Just watched and I really like it. i just love the cenobites designs, but i think some just looked like "plastic skin".
The story is "ok" to be fair, the first movie has a better "motivation" to drive the story forward ( the love of a woman to a man who has been taken by the cenobites and was willing to do everything to have him back ). This movie has a similar story, but i think it lacked more development from the brother.
It's EASILY the best one so far after the original one.
and oh... the last scene where Voight is skinned inside the leviathan to become one of the cenobites is awesome! that gives some backstory that I really appreciated. I just wish that the scene was longer and more detailed, like showing other cenobites or a "supreme" cenobite performing the procedures to turn voight into a cenobite.
about the pinhead controversy.. it doesn't affect the movie at all. it was great to see a new design! I don't see the "sex" of the cenobites, just see them as "beings" the body is irrelevant to them, they just want pain extracted from the flesh and that's it. pinhead is a result of that, not a he or she.
Failed models who are now failed actors are tortured by beings that my dogs would have for breakfast.
Having (somehow) never seeing any of the other Hellraisers, I went into this with no preconceived idea of what I wanted this movie to be. As a reboot, I didn’t force myself to catch up. I simply went in blind. My blind perspective, it was a solid film worth watching. Gory, brutal, and horror/thriller. This movie makes me want to watch the originals. Was it a little weird? 10000%. Did I miss something not seeing the originals? Surely. But it was good. And happy I could watch it straight to Hulu.
Rating: 3/5 - 7.5/10 - Worth Watching
This was a fun watch with friends but I would not say its ground breaking or even a solid addition to the Hellraiser franchise. The visuals, art direction and score are all what made this movie a little better then a lot of other modern horror movies and this was likely thanks to Clive Barker's amazing hellish design that's presented in the source novel. My major disappointment is that the characters are just not likeable or relatable. This is important because of the thriller/mystery aspect going on. This leaves us often watching upper class drug addicts run around with little to no direction bumping into each other and some how still solving pieces of the puzzle despite their lack of mental acuity. Id stick with the original or the book on this one but its still a "fun" movie to laugh at and appreciate a few scenes with friends. 5/10
Like most remakes, the original is better.
What a load of junk - we literally wasted an hour and a half of our lives on this - do yourself a favor and watch the trailer before you waste bandwidth downloading it.
Love it! This is better than the original.
So keeping this movie separate from the others (which I like to do for reboots, I think people would enjoy them more if they did) I really enjoyed it. I loved the changes they made to the Lament Configuration. Rather than a box that seems to have gold foil paper on it, it’s real. It moves when the actor circles their thumb on the center (as opposed to the original), and it actually makes you, the viewer, feel intrigued. Additionally there is some cool information about the lament configuration and its five different configurations that I wasn’t privy to, I’m happy to know it now.
I also love the new take on pinhead. It’s true to the comics and legit story of who becomes pinhead (hint hint)
I own and have watched all the original hellraisers multiple times (minus the bad Tijuana one) I love those movies and I understand when people say this one doesn’t leave you feeling dirty like those ones did. They’re right. But I didn’t watch this Hellraiser to have the exact same feeling I did after the originals. I watched it to enjoy its singular ride, and maybe get more information about a fascinating universe.
Not as bad as you might be led to believe.
True the horror aspect is the same old same old, but the story telling is done well and the effects are good. The film leans towards practical effects and that adds a nice tough to make the film seem more real. What little CGI in the film is used well.
This one is more of a play on the mind and held a slightly different attitude towards Why Things were happening.
A'zion was excellent, Clayton was a fantastic Priest, Starkey played a brilliant support!
Recommend a watch if you're a fan of the old or if you're new to the series.
"Hellraiser" will probably never become one of my favorite franchises in the horror genre. I'm just always too annoyed when Pinhead goes on about pain and desire in long, cryptic lectures while slowly striding through a dark corridor. But at least the 2022 film managed to surprise me positively; it's actually a movie with decent production values. You really can't say that about its predecessors. The result is a competently shot film with few flaws, except that it's highly conventional and even dull in places. But that's a thousand times better than the last few "Hellraiser" sequels.
Loved that it took its time. The atmosphere was excellent, too. A great addition to the Hellraiser universe.
After so many bad sequels, I think this was really an amazing movie and I had a big hope for the franchise again with this movie! I really loved it!
"Accept the pain you have wrought. Greater delights await. We wish to see you proceed."
Well, it looks like I am the odd one out here, but I liked the new Hellraiser much more than the original. It makes the wise choice of not copying too much of the original by being less erotic but a much darker version. The puzzle box acts like a puzzle box rather than a genie lamp, where one rub summons the cenobites.
I just felt that I got more out of this one.
Rather than the usual leather costumes that the cenobites wear, this time it's another layer of skin to appear as if they are wearing an outfit. The designs looked Gothic, sickly, and fantastic. The leader of the cenobites, the Hell Priest, aka Pinhead; this time played by Jamie Clayton, who I am happy to say brought her spin to the character. I thought she knocked it out of the park. Incredibly creepy and almost hypnotising to watch. You get the impression that these cenobites are more unforgiving and do not play by their own rules.
David Bruckner, in my eyes, is a horror director who can do no wrong. Some dreamy and often other-worldly visuals here, which at times reminded me of ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’. There has been some talking about remaking ‘Elm Street', and I think Bruckner would do an excellent job judging by this movie.
Also, without spoiling anything, the ending surprised me with how layered, compelling, and mature it was. The scene does not have any action set piece or a bloodbath, but a lot happens. The most striking thing about it is how the worst torture that any human being could experience is to live with the pain of grief.
I think it should have been a mini series of 4 or 5 episodes. It was too long and too much for one movie. I like the mithology of the cube, the demons, gods and whatsoever, but it was hard to stay awake.
I was really really hoping for it to be genius. The Hellraiser franchise is something that I got very fond of during the last few years and I spent the entire year waiting for this reboot, so I guess a lot of the expectation is actually my fault. The movie is great, but it's not genius. The characters (besides Collin, my queer bait, I admit) don't have enough charisma or likability for us to care for them, so we go back to the original plan: seeing the cenobites shatter bodies!
I believe that, in that subject, the film turned out to be great, even though I would like to see a little bit more. The cenobites are spectacular, Jamie Clayton managed to give the Pinhead vibe, and their combo of make-up and graphic design is one of the best things to watch in the entire movie. I was hoping for them to appear ALL THE TIME, so I could see that beautiful work done. The Gasp and The Asphyx in action are something to be watched, I wish I had a movie just for The Gasp, like they did to the Nun in Conjuring. The final scene with Roland is one of the best in the whole picture, it contrasts sacred and light with gore and visceral! That was a nice and impactful way to end it. Also, his scene previous to it, with the engines going out and his body getting back together, reminded me of the original 1987 practical effects.
Unfortunately, Riley is not a good main character. She is relatable FOR THE FACT that she fucks up a lot, but then she fucks up way too much sometimes and then we just feel like... Cenobites, please kill the bitch already. The boyfriend arch is predictable since she just gets involved with things that are destructive to her, it was noticeable since the beginning that he was responsible for her getting in all that trouble. All and all, the writers still managed to keep it cautionary (classic for horror) in the end: her dependence on bad things got her involved in too much trouble, her lesson's price was high, and now she's going to regret it for the rest of her life. CLASSIC. It's not bad neither an original storytelling.
I'm not as disappointed as some because I got what I was expecting in the production and horror criteria, but the narrative could have really been more creative and surprising.
The bar for Hellraiser films are so low. If you compare it to all the Hellraisers that came after 2, It's pretty fucking good. I didn't care for the writers turning a puzzle box into a silly magical sacrificial dagger, (actually it looked more like something diabetics use to prick their fingers with to measure their blood glucose levels) but the The Gasp is almost as hot as Julia without skin so theirs that.
indeed very very cool. the story took a little bit to really unfold but there were so many tense moments that at some point it doesn't mattered anymore. i would say this part is just okay. but with the effects and those awesome and creepy looking cenobites i give one extra point. i didnt watch any hellraiser before but i will sure do now. and i hope this one gets a sequel, i think there is much potential. so definitely one of the better reboots.
I’m not a major fan of the original and really enjoyed this - however the one thing it was really missing, that the original had, was a strong narrative of human evil. In the OG, the cenobites mostly play accessory to the actual antagonists, Frank and Julia. This movie half assed this concept with voight and Trevor however voight is the “behind the scenes” bad guy and Trevor barely wants to be there. MUCH different than a murderous adulteress and her bag of bones hook up who escaped hell and needs human bodies to feed on.
This remake felt a little more scooby doo then Hellraiser, but I did genuinely enjoy the last third of the movie. Pinhead absolutely ruled this movie, I can’t even begin to praise the great direction of making them more ethereal and less like a frankenstein.
I've been looking forward to this since it was announced and had just rewatched the original recently. I'm the target demographic and really enjoyed this. Was it perfect? No? Would I penalize it more if it wasn't such a beloved franchise? Yes. The Cenobites and Pinhead scenes were marvelous. Costume design A+. I was never scared, but more in love w the whole aesthetic and some of the CGI choices were superb. It's probably a 6/10 movie, but one that I gladly give a 7.5. I thoroughly enjoyed it far more than the average fan would.
The Cenobite designs are amazing, especially Jamie Clayton as Pinhead. This version of the Pinhead goes well with the sexless look from the novella. Blood and gore are done quite well; they never felt gratuitous. The protagonists, on the other hand, were not quite as great. Similar characters have been done countless times before... in much better ways. So yeah.
The story was faithful to the idea from the novella and the first two movies. I liked the callbacks and the homages. It's a worthy spiritual successor to the first two movies.
Miles ahead of the numerous other outings but then again it doesn't take much to top those.
6/10
Was this a great movie...
No....was it a good movie....yes barely.
That was a lot of nothing for a 2H 1M movie and straight off the bat the
87 OG and the 91 sequel are still the best of the franchise. Literally this
HR 2022 pissed away a good 1H 30M before anything actually came together that justified this movies existence. It barely teased anything up until then and watching this addict women run round for an hour looking for someone close who us the audience already knew the answer just made it drag and actually
rather boring.
I was clock watching from 34 minutes in. I thought the original designs were way cooler, in this it was just plastic skin that didn't look all that convincing.
Yes the Cenobites looked really good, loved the new ones and the redesign of the familiar one.
The Priest was literally one up from being in a
Cameo and I definitely wanted more with what she can do with the chains, not that we saw them.. that much,
Could have definitely shown us something
we haven't seen before.
I did like the male and female voice she had, that was pretty cool.
X FINAL THOUGHT:
weak entry and a boring motivational drive
for the story from all involved.
If I had to watch the main lead girl have sex one more time I was going to lose it, I wanted gore,chains,
chatter-teeth and plenty of Cenobite antics,
not Riley huffing and puffin away.
I did like the puzzle box combinations actually meaning something but even that got bogged down
with it's own lore.
Verdict:
Weak story and standard lazy writing and I'm sorry but their is no excuse in 2022, especially with the money they can throw at projects this day and age,
I really really wanted this to work,
I've waited so long but in all honesty the
OG 87 is just way more compelling, with way more showmanship, When PinHead enters you know about it...smash...crash..bang....BOOM... now that's how you make your presence known and how you command
a room/audience.
(NOT just stood outside 25 minutes in the
same spot looking in).
Really....really.
Once Was Enough For Me
"This Is As Far As I Go
No More This Is It"
Felt like it was made for Gen Z.
I found this really a very good reboot.
Im not an expert in movies, i can imagine some or even many die hard hellraiser fans will not be satisfied, but to me i find this succesfully done. They did their best. Thats for sure.
Better than the last 6 movies combined.
Could have used some more blood though.
As a bit of a baby when it comes to torture porn, I do think this is straddling that line. But I surprisingly found it enjoyable enough despite that. The mystery combined with the lore building consistently moves the story forward.
I thought it was pretty good. The cenobites were pretty creepy. I think I like the original pinhead better but overall it was good.
Kinda looks like the real hellraiser, but that is where it stops. The cenobites aren’t scary or menacing in any way. Sorry it just doesn’t feel like a demonic sadist hungry to tear a soul apart, more a cosplayer trying to look like pinheaded.
Liked the box having more configurations, but not the trick blade. You open a gate to hell you shouldn’t be able to just stab someone to get out of it. It should be more by the rules, unfair twisted hells rules but not just lucky you didn’t get cut.
Story similar to a hellraiser movie, so much that the surprise isn’t one.
Very good, definitely upset my tummy more than the original. I thought the cenobites were fantastically gruesome, a huge upgrade of flesh from the original leather. I'm not sure how anyone thought this was less sadomasochistic than the original; the only thing more torture-y than this is Saw, or Hostel. I admit I was a bit disappointed that Voight got turned into a cenobite at the end. He deserved to feel all that pain as a human would, after what he did. It would serve his dumb ass right for picking "sensation", after seeing the sort of shit the cenobites are into lmao.
The atmosphere was great but the plot and script was just crap. Seems like one of the recent slasher flicks where the Cenobites were the villains killing the hapless teenagers .....bah.
HELL-ERASER this movie wipes out the saga..lol , you can skip it..
So... Why do I bother watching these damn remakes?!!?
This one has none of the magic that made the original so effective. Gone is the forbidden and slightly sexual feeling that made you feel a bit "wrong" when watching, and in with weird effects, cenobites that look like they belong in a sci-fi instead of a horror (glowing pins?!!!?), and a distinct compulsion to look at the runtime to see how much of it was left every damn minute.
This version of Hellraiser is so generic in both looks, feeling and story that it could easily have been one of the hundreds of cheap and mediocre horror films released every year. Oh, wait...
Is really that hard to make a movie without sex nowadays? man... 30 minutes in and I have already seen a prostitute working, a crackhead couple shagging 2 times and a gay couple naked in the bed...
Yeah... horror... SoOoOoOoO scary!
"Save your breath for screaming."
I think the magic in the bottle the first 2 had are never going to be had again. I appreciate this franchise getting a decent budget again and while it is better than most of the sequels, it still felt a little lackluster. The cenobite designs were still pretty interesting, but I never truly felt horrified.
A real puzzle box of a movie. All the ingredients are there for something disturbing and scary but the filmmakers failed to put all the pieces together to make a satisfying movie.
Ok so confession time: I have never actually seen the original movie, so I watched this coming from nothing, but having high expectations! And wow, how this was a letdown on all aspects! The acting was mediocre at best, the dialog was meh, the visuals were 'practical', meaning not much cgi, a lot of prosthetics, looking off (more like a bad Halloween suit than scary).
Now I understand there was an attempt to give the cenobites some kind of symbolism. Like the perfect movie 'Se7en' with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, or the game 'Dantes Inferno'. Both symbolism-focused and executing it perfectly! Being very familiar with both, I was constantly thinking: wtf are the cenobites about? Then there is an in-movie explaination and I was like: is THAT what this is? Are you freaking kidding me?! I mean I easily enjoy a decent movie, but this was just pretty fucking pointless! Even resident evil reboot #838189228 had better graphics and more meaning.
And wtf was up with that cube? Completely voluntarily and arbitrarily it draws people and they lose all ability to think properly? Then it tranforms like some kind of DaVinci puzzle and a cenobite starts freaking out?
Last but not least: that old man home owner figure, with that giant string-device in his body, losing it and magically restoring like he's Wolverine?
Nah man... this movie makes NO sense at all
:heart:x5
Sorry folks - but this is just a pale imitation of the 1987 original Hellraiser movie. Go watch that instead.
How I rate:
1-3 :heart: = seriously! don't waste your time
4-6 :heart: = you may or may not enjoy this
7-8 :heart: = I expect you will like this too
9-10 :heart: = movies and TV shows I really love!
I'm not a huge fan of the original franchise; I liked the first one, and kinda liked the second one, but stopped watching after that. However, I'm excited about this new era. Though I think this movie was a bit too long or perhaps the second act was too drawn-out, I enjoyed it and I was happy to see that this is its own story.
The design of the cenobites is an upgrade in my eyes; I love that their skin is their clothes and that you can see how grotesque their "pleasure" and "sensation seeking" has made them. The actors did great too.
My only issue with the film is that the human characters are so uninteresting and I couldn't care less about them, especially Riley who I was NOT rooting for. I was rooting a lot more for the Cenobites and found them a lot more interesting. So, I would love to see better characters in future films and if they plan on keeping Riley as the main one, I hope she's better developed and becomes worthy of the final girl title.
Certainly didn’t live up to the advertising hype, story progressions felt pretty lackluster, characters were a bit dull, gore was alright. Overall, left me feeling pretty blah about it.
Ok, but not as good as the original.
when kentaro miura created berserk he was inspired by hellraiser, the cenobites and the god hand, the configuration of lamentations and the beheliths, and leviathan and the idea of evil.
so when i watched this movie, i ended up seeing it was a berserk feedback, where the wailing setup works similar to beheliths where you sacrifice something you love in order to gain an audience with god hand and they give the owner a wish behelith.
and that's all I wanted to comment
Like feeling a little sex fatigued but your partner just keeps going at it, Hellraiser feels pretty good but doesn't know when to stop.
The aesthetic of the film is gorgeous and the actors, especially Odessa A'zion, are great, but the story starts to feel like the game of Cups in Friends. The rules of the universe change so many times it's like the writers are making them up as they go along.
A decent take on the Hellraiser franchise but not one that begs a sequel.
This was not the reboot I was looking for. Way overlong and bloated (though aren't most movies these days), Barker's original had no fat on the bone, this has a lot of bits you'll have to poke around. Doesn't do much new other than throw some new designs into the franchise (which look great), the latter half descends into Saw territory. Feels like a mini series stitched together.
Seriously though, I mourn the lost art of 90 minute movies. Lean and mean, straight to the point.
I like the movie but is not as the original hell raiser could of been more gruesome I didn't see the much of it only towards the end
It began as a generic horror film featuring poor acting by a bunch of teens doing stupid things and having stupid conversations but it got more and more interesting each time the Pinhead appeared. By the end, the film was redeemed by its slight plot twist and Jamie's incredible performance.
Hyped movie with nothing to give.
I am 100% sure people watched this movie because of the trailer.
I promise you you will regret this.
original a 1000 times better .
I said a long time ago do not watch remix this movie is the worst movie I ever seen
Well at least it's better than most of the franchise. Still a bad movie. No longer desire driven humans seeking other worldly pleasures. I guess that was given up on a long time ago. Anything goes now. Acting wasnt too cringe but it's not winning any awards. Woke politics didn't seem too injected. Could have great...
there is this rubik I have been unable to solve for years, after watching this movie, I am never gonna try again! I don't want all that configuration sh!t.
I'm at odds with this movie because I'm absolutely enamoured with the cenobites design, execution and the depth of the lore surrounding these beings and how they operate. Every time a wall slides out or the floor pulls back I'm in awe, especially the effect during the van scene and the hospital. But I'm equally so disinterested because the human characters are so...one note? Flat? I have zero connection to Riley, her brother, her rebellious love interest or anyone else. They're all so bland when juxtaposed next to how fleshed out (heh) the antagonists are. It's still a good horror flick, it's just not got that final layer that would have elevated it to greatness, but definitely worth a watch.
So much potential that doesn't live up to what it could be, but a fun time nonetheless. The gore and body horror are suitably gnarly- the human antagonist's hell is especially acute- and the CGI mostly stays out of the way. The designs of the Cebonites were great, and Jamie Clayton shines as Pinhead. As great as Bradley was at the physicality, the voice he did was too put on to work for me. Clayton's is suitably inhuman yet oddly pleasurable and amiable. And there's some great tricks like the van stretch.
But gore is only one half of the Hellraiser magic, and the other is the transgressive fucked up sexual allure of it, the boundaries and meetings of pleasure and pain. And that's sadly mostly absent here. I can see relating the Cenobites to addiction really working, but if you're going there you have to hit it as hard as the first two movies hit the grimy perverseness, and it doesn't. The metaphor never really starts and never really goes anywhere. The lore was a little too much, I think you could've traded some of it for just more Cenobite screentime, let them speak for themselves. They view themselves as servants of pleasure, almost benevolent figures just giving you what they perceive to be wondrous gifts, and when they're around they convey that all on their own through the Chatterer's blissful exit and Pinhead's sermons.
There's a lot to like here, but there's a lot to quibble with too. It's a good launching point, and I hope they take what they started here to really push boundaries and get nasty in any possible sequels.
This movie is so very SLOW. The plot adds layers to the Cenobites and the puzzle box that make no sense given the previous films. There’s very little of the Cenobites in this movie at all, what with the main character focused on something other than the gruesome deaths happening around her.
x
+ better than last 5 movies from the original series
+ making of cenobite
+ explanation of how/why things works
+ new cenobites look good
+ opening of doors to the other dimension
- she"pinhead" looks like S&M barbie, although her voice is ok
- disappointing, generic music with cues from original
- ugly, uninteresting characters
I never thought i could stomach such terrible acting and dumb script writing. Personally, i consider it a high achievement to have finished watching this 2 hour bloody mess of a film.
To the sick minds behind the creation of this .... damn you to hell.
I went into this pretty skeptical because Hollywood horror remakes don't have the best track record, but honestly this was such a blast. While this has some pacing issues and some forgettable characters, it captures the spirit of the original perfectly. The dark atmosphere and chilling visuals kept me thrilled and immersed. It is as beautiful as it is grotesque with its monsters and various forms of body horror. The fantastic production design really shines as well. One thing that bothers me is how sinister the Pinhead looks, then we have other Cenobites that look like they belong to a circus rather than 'another dimension'. Still a solid watch, though.
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Surprisesingly better than expected. It is a ok reinterpretation of the 80ties original. Njoyed it.