Hellraiser: Inferno - Hellraiser: Inferno (2000) Discussion

[–] RecordBreaker84 9 years ago

Yeah, that was my biggest complaint about the movie. I randomly watched this on TV the other night, and was pleasantly surprised for the most part. The monsters are creepy, they remind me of some of the creatures we see in Silent Hill. We just don't get enough of them, especially Pinhead.

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[–] HellboundHero 8 years ago

Putting aside the inconsistencies with the Hellraiser mythos, I think Pinhead could have at least one extra scene with dialogue, sometime between his first appearance when he "kills" Joseph and when Dr. Gregory reveals himself to be Pinhead.

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[–] ElectricWarlock 8 years ago

You can kind of tell this wasn't originally supposed to be a Hellraiser film. I didn't love the film but I didn't hate it either. It was just okay. The ending was the best part, though.

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[–] hurricanehorton 8 years ago

That was a problem with a lot of the later Hellraiser sequels. They weren't Hellraiser movies at all. They all started life as something else, and they decided to turn it into a Hellraiser entry by adding Pinhead in any way they could.

Inferno was probably the worst one for it, or at least the one where it most obviously showed. It was basically just a cop film, where Pinhead made a couple of random cameo appearances.

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[–] HellboundHero 8 years ago

It wasn't really just a cop film. Even if it wasn't rewritten to be a Hellraiser movie, it still would have involved the main character being in Hell and dealing with figurative and literal demons. It's not as if they took some non-supernatural cop film and forced demons into it.

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[–] hannahrose313 8 years ago

Someone on the Hellraiser II board actually pointed out that a major flaw of 3+ was that there was too much screen time given to the cenobites (I guess with this film as an exemption). After watching 3 I had to agree. Pinhead and his cronies were an appropriate addition to the film's final act, as they had been in the first two films, but his contribution to the first two acts of part 3 were cheesy and unnecessary. Hellraiser at its core, is about morally corrupt and pleasure seeking HUMANS, who show little regard for others. Pinhead and the other cenobites are unbiased players in hell. They take corrupt people who open the box to hell, and torture them for an eternity. Unlike in parts 3 and 4 where Pinhead is portrayed as a malicious demon who wants to hurt people regardless of their moral standing (although part 3 explains this by separating his "evil" and human sides).

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[–] HellboundHero 8 years ago

3 and Bloodline are really the only movies in the series to give the cenobites a significant amount of screen time. Inferno wasn't the exception, it was the start of the trend of the cenobites taking a back seat in psychological thrillers, at least until Revelations came along and acted as sort of a remix of the first Hellraiser.

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