Horror buffs know this ISN'T that bad...

I disagree. I have a massive, massive horror collection, and have seen (endured) all of those films you mentioned (which are all terrible, yes, especially Children....). I consider myself a bit of a horror buff of all decades and genres, and yes am a big Hellraiser fan. I still think Hellraiser 1-8 is a fine horror series.

Revelations though wasn't just a bad movie, it was a slap in the face (it's part 9 and only fans will bother with this one, right?) and a massive disappointment made only for greedy reasons, and it shows. You list some good points. It had the Hellraiser ingredients (the gore, the rough sex, the puzzle box) and the storyline is certainly Hellraiser-esque, no doubt. The potential certainly was there for a decent little entry into the Hellraiser canon.

No matter how you cut it, re-casting Pinhead was a terrible move that doomed this film from the start. The guy, Stephen Collins, gave a terrible performance, bad line delivery, nowhere near the same league as Doug Bradley. If the filmmakers were smart, they would have excised Pinhead altogether and came up with another cenobite.

The acting from all involved reeked of no prep and amateur hour. The actors playing Nico and Steven (especially Nico) were awful in every respect of the word.

Did the storyline have potential? Sure, but as it stands this movie came across as a super cheap fan-made Hellraiser film with better than average effects. The script needed a serious polish and the film looks like crap. The movie simply comes across as cheap and amateurish from all angles: cinematically, dialogue wise, story, script, acting, everything. Just cheap.

When stacked against superior horror films, whether the straight to video sequels like Wrong Turn 2 or theatricals like Insidious or even modern horror like the Babadook, this movie is a bad, bad joke. I know that's just a small decade, but this film simply isn't worth thinking or typing about much longer.

Just my opinion.

I enjoyed it. The only issues people seem to have is NO DOUG BRADLEY and ONLY MADE TO RENEW THE FRANCHISE LICENSE. Like that's never happened before, X-MEN: FIRST CLASS comes to mind. Recasting Doug was bound to happen in the eventual reboot anyway, so all this film did was give you a taste of what's yet to come.


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I kind of liked it. It felt the closer to the original two than all of the later sequels which to me is a good thing. I think that if Doug Bradley played Pinhead then people would think it was one of the best sequels rather than one of the worst. It wasn't nearly as bad as people say.

It was offensive for hellraiser, he was first of all so fat, he spoke like a kid with some mental disorder and too much and too soft, the main actor could not carrie the film, sorry bra, but The Howling doesnt have a name as big as Hellraiser, you would need to compare it to Freddy, Jason, TCM, etc. Hellraiser is too big for this sheit, (use the Howling for comparissons to movies like Feast for example, howling is not big enough) so, I never thought I would say this, but this hellraiser movie was far worse than A Nightmare on Elm Street THE REMAKE! Hellraiser needs to be respected, is offensive to shoot it on 300k budget anyway, and if you do, then go all the way, not just half way, it wasnt cruel enough, the last shot was beyond stupid, the little respect I had for the climax went out the window the moment the blond girl also the worst actor of the bunch had a CU of her face smiling, was beyond stupid, like there is another dimension of stupidity with no boundries, thats how far it went. I have watched Manos the hands of faith, more entertaining than this. I felt this felt independent, I felt that even Hellworld was so much more amazing and had one of the craziest deaths and that was hell of an ending even if the movie was not good, in the case of this one, the movie is plain bad, you just want it to end and dont know when it will, you want to fast forward it but you dont want to disrespect pinhead, then you notice he got a lot of weight and his voice sounds retarded. And if we followed you, then a movie like ¨It follows¨ would have a 9, which would be bad, since the movie is so-so, (unlike the babadook which was a flawless cinematic experience) but anyways, your arguments are all over the places, but at the end of the day bare no logic, you are using a fallacy to open, many ones trying to defend yourself, if u felt u were right u wouldnt use these fallacies at all.

dude compared to the other hellraisers this is pure zero grade garbage an on its own its zero grade garbage the effects look like a haunted house with rubber chains an a stupid pin head junior

You must be high...this movie is crap

You have to realize that Hellraiser was never a good movie to begin with and this fanboys already have bad taste since the beginning.