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Title: Hellraiser Inferno Post by: Andrew on October 04, 2002, 11:09:50 PM I can try my hardest to work with this movie's script, but the (anti) hero still is not doing it for me. He steals money and drugs from crime scenes, cheats on his wife with prostitutes, and sets up his partner for a fall in case something goes wrong.
The main problem is that the movie plays more like a psycho killer on the loose thriller (or slasher), rather than what I expected from a movie with Pinhead. Ignoring all the terrible things that a demon on the loose could do is discarding a huge opportunity. Still, who cares about what happens to the main character? Time and again he proved himself to be a royal bastard. Title: Re: Hellraiser Inferno Post by: Mofo Rising on October 04, 2002, 11:49:33 PM I don't remember it too well now, but I liked this one when I saw it.
I think its problem is that it's just not a HELLRAISER movie. Sure it's got Pinhead in it, but it really has nothing to do with the other movies. I think it's more of a character study, with the crooked cop slowly descending into a hell of his own making. Not to say it's a great movie, but it was passable entertainment for me. I especially like the hallucinogenic images. But that's me. Maybe making it into a HELLRAISER movies was a production decison later down the line. Who knows? What it does remind me of is the HELLRAISER comic series. Early 90's anthology that featured the cenobites in other situations in the world. (The Crusades, farmland America, etc. . .) Some surprisingly good artists in this book, such as John Bolton or Ted McKeever. There was also a HELLRAISER: BOOK OF THE DAMNED comic that was a fun play on the whole "mythology" of the series. Not bad. It's the "mythology" that makes me consider the second movie as the best of the series. Once again, that's just my opinion. Title: Re: Hellraiser Inferno Post by: Squishy on October 05, 2002, 02:09:45 AM I don't know why I'm doing this--I haven't liked anything associated with Clive Barker, aside from the fact that "Rawhead Rex" is one of the worst of the worst of the absolutely frickin' worst--but there's apparently also a "Hellraiser: Hellseeker" out there, and a "Hellraiser: Deader" in the works.
What does the future hold for this endless trickling peestream of sequels? Eventually, Pinhead will become a Freddy Krueger-style "host" edited into dubbed horror movies from Germany, and then later be replaced for budget reasons by the director, wearing a store-bough "arrow-through-the-head" novelty as the character Arrowhead. He will have a sidekick named Tackass. Title: Re: Hellraiser Inferno Post by: Squishy on October 05, 2002, 03:54:36 AM Sorry...that should be store-BOUGHT "arrow-through-the-head."
Title: The Bough Mystery Post by: Cullen on October 05, 2002, 04:24:44 AM Here's something funny, or not. I actually READ that as "bought," complete with T. I remember distinctly seeing the T.
Maybe I should be scared for my mental health... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Cullen, who wishes Spellchecker was smart enough two solve every spelling error. Either that, or that he could spell. That'd be nice, too. Title: Re: Hellraiser Inferno Post by: Cullen on October 05, 2002, 04:27:00 AM Isn't that the one where the director tried to take the series "in a new direction" and when people complained, he said that the complainer just didn't "understand" what he was doing?
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