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Beyond terrible, even for this franchise


If this doesn’t convince you to not watch this film, then I don’t know what else to tell you.

1. Gone is the menacing Pinhead with a terrifying sinister voice which is replaced by a 90 pound twig female who speaks in a computer voice and has no charisma or screen presence whatsoever.

2. The lead actress is made to look as ugly as possible (unkempt frizzy hair, baggy K-mart clothes, duck lips, and fat nose that’s oozing blood and mucus all film). She spends the whole movie in tears, sobbing, slobbering, and being unlikeable in general. I’m surprised they didn’t put her in a diaper because the filmmakers certainly didn’t want men getting an erection.

3. Even worse, the male characters are all sexualized and chiseled, two gay characters spoon in bed together with their shirts off and we’re treated to a tracking shot of another dude in the shower that slowly zooms in on his bare ass so we can see the water drip down his ass crack. Who is the target audience here?

4. What was wrong with just solving the puzzle box and demons showing up? Now you must get stabbed by cube (drawing blood) or you can just stab anyone you want to doom them? Why not just keep it simple?

5. Female pinhead is now a genie who asks for your wishes……and spoiler alert……all you have to do to outsmart her is just say “I don’t want a wish” haha, is this wishmaster now?

6. Millionaire Mansion dweller guy finds a way to keep the centobites away by creating metal gates in his house….apparently demons don’t know how to breach metal gates

7. An Asian woman with a British accent shoehorns herself into the movie without any explanation as to why she is there. Is she a friend of the gay couple? A ghost from a well? Diversity placement? Your guess is as good as mine.

8. The lighting is way too dark throughout the film and it’s hard to make out what’s going on at parts. Gone is the fantastic lighting when the centobites show up.

9. Once again we’re treated to the cliche lead character being a recovering drug addict (really Hollywood? Again?) and she of coarse becomes an internet sleuth and detective like we’ve seen thousands of times over and over again.

10. Lastly, there is a twist that doesn’t make much sense involving druggy girls boyfriend who was in on it all along because why? His morality blows around like the wind whenever it’s convenient for the story and I still don’t understand why we had to see his bare ass in the shower. Was the water dripping down his buttcrack a metaphor for something? I mean the director used a tracking shot for us to get a good look at it…..did I miss something?

Anyways, this movie is hot garbage. Avoid at all costs.

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Too long, didn't read after #6. But it doesn't matter as this movie doesn't exist to me anyway.

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Thanks...don't watch again

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I liked the bare ass shot in the shower. Wish we could've gotten to see the rest of the male cast naked including Brandon Flynn and the victim from the beginning.

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Other than the complaints about the nudity and the lead actress, I do agree with a lot of your points though. I've seen every Hellraiser film over the years. Some of them are truly awful, most are simply below average to mediocre. However, even the terrible ones were atmospheric and had cool effects. Didn't care for the look of the Cenobites in this version. The Chatterer was especially disappointing.

I really liked the idea of the changing configurations and thought the film would explore that more by giving us more clues on what happened to ones who were taken. Were they Cenobites?

Not sure what to think of the blade. It's an interesting idea and does explain why the Cenobites don't take her or Voigt.

I don't think the lead outsmarted Pinhead at the end. I actually found it odd that the sister condemned her brother to live in hell at the end, which was a far greater punishment than being riddled with guilt for causing his death. None of the reviews I read even mentioned this fact. The movie should have explained it better. Is he suffering or in some sort of limbo? Who knows.

Glad to know I'm not the only one who noticed how dark this film is. Streaming at home on TV without the best HDR was obviously not the ideal way to watch.

One of the things I liked about the film was how the lead character redeems herself in her journey. There was potential to further develop the boyfriend character, who obviously had real feelings for her, but the film sort of rushes to the climax at that point.

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I agree with you on the main girl protagonist. What is it with Hollywood always making the heroine a damn tweaker like they did in the "Evil Dead" remake. I hate tweakers. They're all over the county I live in. And she was damn fugly. I really dislike how fans of this are claiming it expands the lore when everything in this movie has been done in either the many bad sequels like "Deader" with the tweakers and drug addicts or "Hellworld" with the weird Lemarchand house and kids, or in the many comics where an evil human would lure innocents into opening the box. This movie will be forgotten about in a year.

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Faggots were the stars of the movie.

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I thought it was alright but then again I wasn't expecting much overall. None of the characters were anything to write home about but the SFX and the tone were pretty on point.

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I've only seen Hellraiser 1-4 in the original series. Despite its issues the 2022 one was better by far.
Not saying it's great, but being better than the old series is a cakewalk.

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