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When Pinhead discusses exchange with Voight, its not a new wish that he is granted. It's like customer service. He was unhappy with the previous wish, at which point she tells him, "gifts cannot be ungiven." But they can be exchanged, she figures out that his choice of liminal configuration was not correct, so she exchanges it for leviathan which represents power. When Pinhead is finished, she waits for the girl who gets her wish.
First Configuration is Lament or Life
Second Configuration is Lore or Knowledge
Third Configuration is Lauderant or Love
Fourth Configuration is Liminal or Sensation
Fifth Configuration is Lazarus or Resurrection
Sixth Configuration is Leviathan or Power
She is offered the choice of one of them. Riley refuses to choose, even though Pinhead entices her to choose resurrection, Voight has already told her that its a trick, they never give you what you think it will be. So she chooses nothing. Pinhead interprets that as Choosing Lament or Life. To live suffering, knowing what she has done, the people that she has sent to their deaths, a long painful existence. In a sense, its as demented a choice as any of the other configurations, if death was a choice it might be a more suitable one than living a life knowing the suffering and pain that you caused on others, so in a sense Lament is just another form of torture. It's also the default configuration which is why the box is restored to the Lament Configuration.
To lament is to grieve, to mourn. A lamentation is the passionate expression of grief or sorrow; weeping.
We know what Life, Power, and Sensation is and I'm assuming Resurrection would be like they kill you in exchange for returning someone you love. My question then is I wonder what they would do if you chose Love or Knowledge? I'm drawing blanks on how they could make those 2 fucked up
@@MrFredstt My best guess for lore or knowledge would be you are granted knowledge beyond your means, but the inability to use it in someway, perhaps taken to the hell dimension and hung like a stuck pig, but happy in the knowledge you know the meaning of life?
For Love, I would also guess that since every choice is basically cursed, to even get to choose lament, you must have already sacrificed people and not have to live with it. So love would likely be that whatever you love most in the world is given to you and then taken away. Or worse Pinhead tells you that to even come this far, you must be a person whose ambitions, and ego drive you, you ignore the feelings, and emotions of others, and care nothing for the needs of anyone else but yourself, therefore you can only truly love yourself, and then they take you away.
@@MrFredstt Wouldn't knowledge have a similar outcome to franks torture from the book? In that all that information absorbed by the brain sends you into a sort of overload? In the book it's more about sensations, but I think the same would apply to knowledge. Still thinking on love though 🤔
For Alex's comment about the two wishes for one configuration, it wasn't two wishes, he made his original wish and the Priest told him that he can't return a wish, but he can make an exchange, so he wasn't using a new one, he was just altering his original one. So the wish was unused so Riley could use it.
Spot on, this is exactly how I surmised it as well.
Yeah this makes sense
We made the puzzle boxes practical. I 3D modelled them from the brilliant concepts and the team at Makinarium UK built them with internal mechanics. Beautiful pieces. I can’t wait to see it. Jamie put her heart and soul into the project and the director and sound production worked so hard. I also hope there is a sequel! Great review guys…
keep up the good work if what you say is true!
hey
Awesome! Huge Clive Barker fan and can't wait to see this one!
That's awesome, love the new look and functionality of the puzzle box! Hope they make replicas.
@@shadowulfhedinn8261 So do I! I can put renders up on Instagram after release. I want to make a set for the office - it's on the list of thing to do...
It wasn't so much 'whoever solved the box, got targeted' in the originals. In the 2nd Movie, the blonde haired girl solves the puzzle for the Doctor but when the Cenobites go to attack her, Pinhead states "Stop. It's not hands that call us, it's desire"
Yeah, I really didn't like how the puzzle box worked this time around. So if you take the puzzle box and stab someone with it the cenobites come after them. Really stupid if you ask me. It just made the cenobites seem so mindless when in the original Pinhead could see through the bullshit and be like "uh no, that's not how it works."
The whole curiosity killed the cat or in this case it could turn you into a cenobite or a prisoner in hell like uncle frank
@@mordimor8409 300%.
huge continuity issue and lore confusion
"Its.....DESIAHHHHHHHHH"
@@mordimor8409 YES!!! Yes. The way puzzle box works in the 2022 movie really shows the writers had no idea what Hellraiser is and didn't understand first thing about it; let alone concepts of demons, sin and redemption explored in the story.
It's absolutely hilarious one could literally commit a murder with the box to get themselves out of damnation lol??? "Hellraiser 2022: Murder is Good and Saves you from Hell!"
If I had a nickel for everytime Hulu did well for a horror franchise this year, I'd have 2 nickels. It isn't much but I'm DAMN WELL HAPPY IT HAPPENED TWICE!
prey is not horror. (and sucks besides that)
@@mrbigjonstud wUMeNNN rEeEEee
Prey was very damn average, but when the bar is this low everything is good
yeah i wasn't expecting much from prey and tbh it was ok, it wasn't the best though. Better than The predator and avp requiem tbf though those are pretty low bars
@@Havrank dude that movie is ass and everyone jumps to that response to defend that pos
If Hulu keeps handing properties like this, I would love to see them tackle Judge Dredd, maybe another movie or a series like the comics it was based on, but you gotta bring back Karl Urban, he's even more grizzled now and would be an even better fit for Dredd then he was ten years ago.
They based in Judge Dredd on dirty Harry, imagine if they tried using a deep fake Eastwood after he's dead to be Dredd, you only need his chin and voice after all;)
I do hope not. Judging by what they did to Hellraiser, they'd dconvert Dredd, a story which questions concepts of law and justice and how they correlate, into a story where all criminals have to do to be let off is murder a Judge.
(equivalent to being released from hell by stabbing someone else with the box).
Absolutely not.
AJ was exaggerating; this HR was average. Just look up the scores online. I've just watched it also, and I think the same.
On top of that, I don't know if these writers can be offensive enough to make JD. They're following the trend of the gender swapping cult, in the end.
Ooh I agree! Dredd is always an amazing time when you're wanting to watch an action movie with friends, if they kept that vibe and made him more grizzled it'd be a treat.
How this and Pray didn't get to be in theaters is a crime.
Edit: To those of you who who pointed out the misspelling - Those comments are hilarious keep them up 🤣.
To those of you who feel the need to tell me how Prey sucks - That's just like your opinion man 😎.
*Prey
Pray? Is that the new Christian movie about the Predator saying grace before eating dinner?
The Predator spreading the word of the Christ. Pray or become prey
Lol not even gonna dogg on ya for the mistype lol 😂
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To be fair. The Cenobites were on equal footing in "The Hellbound Heart." There was no real standout Pinhead type Cenobite.
cmon, I dont think that way, they all had amazing designs I think!
@@FablesOutofSpace I don't think he was referring to the desings but to one of them being more important than the others.
@@Heishinigami hmm yeah probably:)
It’s such a shame Prey wasn’t on the big screen now this one too HellRaiser… Hulu is knocking it out of the park. I really hope Prey comes to blu ray.
In the lore Leviathan hates humans. It is believed that it was one of the fallen angels. That's why whenever a human comes near it , it tortures the shit out of you. It tried to make a dimension without human life, but they kept finding it and it turn them into cenobites
I love how they said don’t let kids watch the film. I actually got into Hellraiser as a kid in the 90’s lol
Sometimes it's just nice to hear the boys talk movies, even when I don't even watch the movie it's entertaining to hear some genuine banter about any media out there. Reminds me of just rambling with my nerd friends about movies and games. I hope you guys continue the good work and I can continue to watch this into my 30s and 40s lmao
ha same here
Agreed 😎
Agreed. Even more so with the Red Letter Media folks.
Damn, my expectations for this movie was ZERO.
I will see it now.
Same ^
I always knew it was going to be good because it’s directed by David Bruckner who did the amateur night section of VHS.
Even after seeing the trailer...? That's sad
is it out or no
@@1az3r91 If you are referring to the film vhs and its sequels for sure.
Hula dropping bangers. When I was like 8 my sister let me watch the first Hellraiser and iv been traumatized ever since lol.
very shocked it's doing well. there hasn't been a good hellraiser movie since the 90's. man, i'm loving september and october for horror movies. this is one of the better horror seasons ever for me. Loved Barbarian and Smile, and now I get Hellraiser, Terrifier 2, and Halloween Ends (skeptical of this one). Still, what a dang good two months it is for horror fans.
The genie's lamp, the puzzlebox, is truly opened by the 'soul' or desire of the seeker of pain and pleasure, it's that level of intention that really drives one to 'open' it. And that's how its solvers bring forth the cenobite dimension.
Yep, this new film kinda destroys that, its a shame. But I guess people seem to think that as long as there are chains and dismemberment, its fine. Definitely not a fan of how they handled things here
everything that happened to that rich dude was just tragic, after finally getting that torture contraption off of him after all those years he ends up in a even more torturous situation although he seemed to have become some kind of pain god or something in pain heaven that last scene at the end of him becoming a cenobite was awesome it looked heavenly and hellish at the same time
So they stayed truer to the source with Pinhead? He was not suppose to be more than just another Cenobite.
I am glad he was in the originals because he is unique to the genre.
Hulu killing it right now can’t wait to check this out
I… did not think I’d be okay with this. I’ve been a huge Hellraiser fan since I was 12, Doug Bradley was THE only Pinhead… even 3 makes me happy… and then someone else finally did the character justice. I’ll be watching this with hellish glee. Guess this is what happens when you cast by who does the character best rather than tick boxes! ❤
Just watched this last night, Very impressed with this one. I too loved the added lore to the box and in my opinion Voight was a very interesting character throughout and just brutal with his (gift) from the Cenobites! Well done!
"There's nowhere to go but up after Hellraiser 7"- Guess he missed 8-10?😅
The skin on the side of your finger peeling up way more than you want it to is such a great description 🤣
Who would of guessed that Hulu would have two good hit from two different horror franchises? Kudos
Is predator really horror though? More like sci-fi/action
Also it is managed by Disney
@@David-nd4to it's like slightly horror
@@David-nd4to Sci-fi thriller?
Which was the other one?
Hulu has been knocking it out of the park lately Prey now this!!! great stuff.
Prey.
Prey, Fresh, Hellraiser...they're on a roll!
@@Fuzzycat16 🤓, auto correct is a thing lmao touch some grass
Seems like they're getting filmmakers who actually care about the movie and see it as a project, not a product.
i watched prey because joe liked it
but its really not that good
It's great that Hulu is getting more recognition now but they've been making good stuff for a while now. Even before Prey, they had Fresh, Palm Spring, Minding the Gap. Not to mention their original shows like The Dropout, Pam & Tommy, Dopesick, etc.
Fresh was absolutely fantastic!!!
disney owns hulu i hope you realize that
@@n9ne what big corporation doesnt own something. Does that mean we can't enjoy a film?
@@AfamKingo Easier to herd people with this mindset.
hulu is far better then that junk disney+...but i will never pay disney for content they consider second tier.people are stupid for supporting this kind of scam,there are already too much streaming services without this one studio owning 2-3 services shit...
It's rare for there to be a good horror movie remake. This is one of those rare moments.
I understand thi is more of a re-imagining rather than just a remake, so maybe that's why.
This is "the thing" and "the fly" situation almost
There's the evil dead soft reboot which is really good
That's because it's not a remake
@@freyjaskeeper3434 yeah i guess, not a hard reboot
Not only was this filmed in my home town [Belgrade], but the park scene was filmed in a park in front of my mom’s apartment building in the city center. And I was actually visiting at that time and saw the filming crew but stupidly never asked them for context. This just made me enjoy the movie even more! Glad you guys also liked it. We often share tastes and you quickly became my go-to channel as your critiques are always balanced. Also always good to see Alex in a shirt 😉 P.S. the park indeed has a dingy public toilet but they created a new one with green screen.
Back in the 90’s Hellraiser was one of those NO NO movies that you were NOT allowed to watch, so when I actually saw it as an adult I was surprised to see how contained it actually is, and how violent & disturbing it actually wasn’t. Great movie though.
I think it was probably Uncle Frank's return that got it tagged as a video nasty, unlike something like Brain Dead and Bad Taste which were full on gore throughout
My favourite part was when Hellraiser said “it’s hell raising time!” and hell raised all over the place.
Some might even say it was TOO much hell
Hellraiser was raising hell big time
What are we, some sort of Hulu Hellraiser?
"Now this is hellraising!"
Love your name on here 🤣🤣🤙
I enjoyed it too. It certainly felt like a Hellraiser. A bit formulaic at times. The first Hellraiser really stood out in that it didn't follow conventional horror tropes. It was really a mystery where you're being drawn into an increasingly horrifying rabbit hole. And this one does something similar albeit with the more typical "group of friends getting involved in shit that gets them killed" kind of way.
I was expecting more gore and mutilations though. For the first half of the movies, a lot of the deaths was implied. It got better later on, but I think in terms of body horror, the 2nd one would still be the most extreme (and why it holds a special place for me).
I wanted a bit more gore and a lot more subtext and substance. The original Hellraiser had so much going on, and no sequel (including this one) has been able to replicate that.
took the words straight from my brain, they should've shown the first few kills. The first hellraiser starts out gory as fuck showing the upclose chains hooking into flesh and I'll never forget the doctor cenobite getting the top of his head ripped off in the 2nd one
as a Hellraiser fan for the last 20 years... i liked it. it did not disappoint. it was far more story focused and not so much on gore. but still... it hit me in a deep place and unsettled me.
See I always like the original where the box is basically going after people who have desire as opposed to someone just getting nicked because I feel like that is what made it even worse because anyone can just not open the box or open the box you know it's a very conscious choice but you're greed and your desire could be less controllable and you actually have to resist those things that are there and if you don't well then the box will summon the cenobites and they will claim you I mean basically it's like you could force someone else to open a who has absolutely no desire and does not wish to know anything and that's not going to keep you safe no matter what you do you're greed and your desire is what will make call forth the centabytes and they will come for you
I still think the desire is there tbh. Like, ok, REALISTICALLY the only time anyone SHOULD be getting nicked is when they're messing with the box. It's only because Riley accidentally survived that it seems the cenobytes had to implement different rules. Like, Riley WAS tempted to open it, it's just that she didn't fulfill her end of the deal so to speak. If anything it might be even more torturous to have people close to you ripped away...
Dude that was one hell of a word soup
I believe the cenobite that passed the lawyer was asphyxiate who was attracted to the patient gasping for air. It's like the pull of that cenobites desired suffering was greater than acquiring the lawyer.
The fact this and Prey ended up on Hulu instead of theaters is kind of sad. I’m glad I can just watch it at home, but it would’ve been nice to see them both in theaters.
are you serious prey sucks lmao
@@REALdavidmiscarriage Hard disagree, I loved it, and I'm not alone there
@@emiloguechoons9030 a lot of people love justin bieber whats your point lol
Whats so great about prey? I‘d rather watch something like apocalypto...
@@REALdavidmiscarriage It was good.
@@REALdavidmiscarriage >a lot of people love justin bieber
This analogy doesnt work, Bieber was very popular commercially and so so critically.
Prey likely wasnt seen by many relative to other action films but was well regarded critically.
Im counting down the hours for this to drop! Massive Fan of the first 4 and Judgment! Great to hear you guys enjoyed it!!!
Judgement is so underrated. 3rd one was pretty weak in my opinion but 1, 2 and 4 yeah probably the best in the original series. Also enjoyed Inferno.
being able to finally witness the creation of a cenobite was worth the price of admission alone: the fact no one ever thought about going in this lore direction was always mindblowing to me!
Did you not see Hellbound? Voight was basically Dr. Channard. This was almost a Hellraiser 2 remake. Really good but only the LeMerchant Box lore was new.
@@chadmcdeadlift6792 ye hellbound was the "better" one of the sequels...although it was far from a good movie, it was decent compared to the horrible mess of the othes
What the hell are you talking about.
They established this and hellbound hellraiser 2
And went into great detail in the hellraiser comics
Lol someone didn’t see any hell raiser after 1
24:50 the cenobite didn’t pass her purposely, it was the blind clicking one. She was being silent so even when it entered her room it couldn’t find her
Wait it was actually GOOD? Holy fuck it’s a miracle
Watch it first before getting excited
yes do watch it first, cause i couldnt wait for the lead actors to die, they were annoying as hell
Its good for what it is.
Its ok… enjoyable even! But not scary
It feels like a true sequel to the 2nd film. In that there's a lot of ideas explored in comics and books to the point where Christie takes over as the hell priest and rips apart the original that we grew up with. I was so happy to see it come back to what it was about rather then this heaven and hell bs.
Hulu originals are amazing.
I can't believe you've never reviewed the Hulu original series for CATCH 22.. it's stellar!
Angry Blow Jobs reviews are L takes anyways
@@gomezaddams9221 If they're L takes why are you watching his reviews?
I would just look at the character as "The priest", not Pinhead. For me, it's a different character. That way I don't feel the old character is ruined, instead of just getting a new character with potential.
Hulu coming through this year with some good movies love it
The script could have used some work imho to make the characters less one dimensional. For example: The mansion could have been a "getaway" type of recovery for the MC, who finds the box and becomes addicted to solving it and accidentally killing her friends as they try to help her. At the end, she finds out it was a plot by the billionaire, so she kills him with the Leviathan configuration and she chooses to resurrection in order to "bring back her friends". However, she is then made into a leader of a cenobite gash herself and her friends are resurrected as her cenobite followers. Of course, plot and drama would be added, but yea - that would have tied the book with the comics as far as lore goes.
The Cenobites did killings in Hellraiser 3 and other films. There was cd Hellraiser and the twin Hellraiser. The first Hellraiser had limited dialogue for the cenobites because of the costumes.
@Joe kinda new to youtube, I texted reply to that number, hope that was correct. Big fan of the show and big hellraiser fan.
@@RED-sn9rt NO, THAT IS A BOT! THATS THE FAKE JOE SHOW. DO NOT FALL FOR IT!
@@RED-sn9rt It's spam don't reply
In the comics, apparently the main character lady from the first 2 movies made a deal with pinhead and basically traded places with him becoming the hell priestess (basically female pinhead) as he was getting bored of all the same torture and was losing interest in it. I wonder if that is who is in this new hellraiser.
This movie was horrible. When you open the box everyone in the room was sent to an eternity of torture and turned into a cenobite. They didn’t even flinch when the lady was taken in the back of the van. Common. Boo
The first two hellraiser movies are amazing for a back to back watch, I remember being so immersed when they travel to hell and Leviathan made me so uneasy.
Every review now Alex needs every single backstory and detail spelled out for him during the already 2 hr long movie.
gave me chills when pinhead stopped her prayer, side note i would get a uhaul and empty that house of all it values, im owed something for losing so much lol
I found the lead actress to be very annoying. Also the device the Roland guy had in him looked like something out of Jupiter Ascending or some shit.
I've seen all the Hellraiser movies and just finished watching the one on Hulu 🤔 It was mediocre. I give it a 5 out of 10.
The old Hellraiser movies are still way better.
The main character in this movie was annoying at the beginning and she was annoying at the end.
As a Hellraiser fan (well, 1&2), one of the things i always liked the most was how they were about actual characters, and not just a bunch of teens waiting to be killed off. The worst hellraiser movies always end up being the ones that try to do that stuff. (mostly because the majority of the later sequels were dead end horror scripts that they just stuck pinhead in)
The only standout of those re-worked scripts was Inferno… though that’s not saying too much. At the very least it setup the character as living in his own personal hell.
So instead of teens the 20 somethings getting picked off was an upgrade for you?
@@gravityslave6277 Larry and Julia are clearly way older than that. He's at least 40, and she's probably 30. And it has nothing to do with age, but with character. A group of teens in a horror movie are always cliches who get picked off. The characters in the first hellraiser are a family with history and problems, that are infinitely more important to the plot than just the magic puzzle box. Frank wouldn't even be able to escape without Julia pining for him.
@@antipothis
Who are Larry and Julia? I'm talking about the *main* cast of roommates and sleeveless guy in the beginning. Reily, Nora, Colin, Trevor, Matt etc.
The ones being chased and picked off in the van and big scary mansion like every other teen horror movie. Go on IMDB...they were all born in the 1990's.
@@gravityslave6277 I was always talking about the original hellraiser
*LORE* *PSA* the person who gets the wish.. is when you get marked after the “power” configuration. In the beginning you’ll see the puzzle box as a diamond shape and Voight gets his wish…. Then exchanged at the end. AND because Riley stabbed her boyfriend WITH that “power” configuration she was able to *CHOOSE* her wish.
the original cenobites couldn't move their mouths much with the makeup and prosthetics so pinhead got all the lines
Hulu made really good horror movies a few years back with the Hulu After Dark movies. No movies were connected but nearly all of them were really good.
No UK release date for this, so annoying.
(UPDATE: Director David Bruckner did offer some insight into the international release. “To the Hellraiser fans outside the US, Spyglass and Paramount are working to firm up release dates,” he tweeted. “I’m told we should have answers in the next week or so.”
If Paramount is handling international distribution, that means there are three potential avenues of release. The first is that the film will stream on Paramount Plus later this year, the second is that it’ll head to blu-ray in 2023, and the final option is that it will get a theatrical release later in the year or in early 2023.)
So basically we won’t get to see the film until 2023. This kind of shit makes my blood boil 😡. We always miss out I’m sick of it.
Torrent it
@@MN-sb4pr I haven't done that in years, and don't have a VPN. Any reccomended sites for torrens these days?
Ended up using a VPN myself to watch it but damn if we haven't been screwed this year with release dates. Pearl, Barbarian and now this😪
@@coreycarnegie5990 Even if I got a VPN I read that Hulu doesn't except most UK payment methods 🤔. Yeah it's an absolute joke, also lose out on tons of physical media releases.
I just watched it on my chipped firestick. Updated it earlier and it appeared. Literally just after finishing it. Great show. Get yourself a firestick and get someone local to work their magic on it and voila!
Every single one of these streaming reviews I always get excited thinking the film or series has been released, then just sadness realizing it's still days away.
I typed in google its release date and it said the 4th but then I looked further and it said the 7th.
@@johnweinzetl4820 did the same thing.
Me too bro I thought I was going crazy thank yall lo.l whats even more confusing is giving early reviews for a streaming service
so glad to hear it turned out good. Too many great franshises got butchered and left to die
Watch it first before saying it's good
The rich guy could have exchanged his gift for lament configuration, but even then he was blind by the possibilities and chooses another "gift". Surprised more people haven't realized this.
For those who don't know, every Hellraiser sequel after the third film had no involvement from Clive Barker, and all the films after the fourth were made taking non-Hellraiser scripts that Dimension Films had laying around, doing a quick Hellraiser themed rewrite, and churning out a direct to video movie solely so they could retain the film rights to the franchise. Clive Barker was able to regain the film rights for Hellraiser 2022, thank Leviathan.
I just saw Hellraiser 2022 and it wasn't that great.
@@ShineLikeaProAZ Ok. I liked the movie a lot, you not as much. That's the beauty of individuality.
@@tinstrings6312
You go girl 👏 👧.....
Effects were cool, liked some of the characters, but the main character was such a moron. Had me and my friend screaming at the tv the entire time.
This and Smile right now are killing it, 2022 October is crushing the horror game at the moment.
And the new Halloween movie coming out this has been a good horror movie year
Hopefully terrifier 2 is good
Great movie. I was actually happy to hear the original theme song. The Cenobites were awesome, and the whole story wrapped up nice, no hints of a sequel, which I'm happy about, although I'm sure there will be .
that ending signals sequel:)
@@FablesOutofSpace
Spoiler warning ⚠️ kinda
not really. It just shows what happens when you make decisions. it gives closure
David Bruckner's directing is always fun to watch. I loved The Night House a cool psychological horror about grief. I thought this was solid too! It's a good look I think they can build something even better from here.
'It was surprisingly long, and I liked it'
Angry Joe 2022
It's like hellraisers meets Candyman and the acting is amazing! Props to Hulu, I hope they make more!
I thought about candy man too!
What the hell are you guys talking about? Its nothing like Candyman other than both pieces created by the same writer. Candyman reboot was trash though this new Hellraiser I thought was pretty good.
@Angry Joe she wasn't Pinhead, she was Hell Priestess which took over for Pinhead
It looks that way! But since this is a reboot, it may just be a pinhead like
I can easily review all the Hellraiser films that came before this one.
Hellraiser 1 & 2: An introduction to a new version of Hell, giving us the lore and background, interesting characters and even showing us the realm of Hell itself. And, of course, a sensational performance by Doug Bradley in his iconic role as Pinhead. Perfect films, both worth seeing.
Hellraiser 3 & 4: Both involving Hell trying to break through into our world. Bradley once again giving a great performance as Pinhead and introducing new Cenobites. The films are not perfect though, HR3 shows a decline in the makeup effects on Bradley and the writing is not great. HR4 takes place in space, because, at that time, every horror franchise had to have at least one film take place in space. All in all, if you just love watching Doug Bradley as Pinhead, you won't be disappointed with these films.
Hellraiser 5 & 6: These films show us the personal Hells given to those who dare open the Box. These are a bit duller as they feature very little of the Cenobites and none of the Labyrinth, but once more Doug Bradley returns as Pinhead along with new Cenobites and every scene they have makes watching these films worthwhile.
Hellraiser 7 "Deader": This one is... Intriguing, it's about a cult of ppl trying to live beyond death, basically they open the Box and commit suicide... I'll be honest IDK how it works, I think the writers were high with this one. But again it's worth seeing for Doug Bradley's scenes as Pinhead.
Hellraiser 8 "Hellworld": A group of friends gets invited to a party only to find themselves in a hell trap. Unfortunately this one is probably the weakest of the Doug Bradley films as it takes the standard horror trope of ppl trapped inside a building and slowly being killed. Bradley only has one good scene at the end of the film and the CG effects are terrible. But you do get a good performance from Lance Henrikson and a pretty interesting twist. Like I said, this is the weakest of the Bradley films and not really worth seeing. But, for myself, I still kinda like it.
Hellraiser 9: The worst of the worst! No Doug Bradley as Pinhead, no other Cenobites, no Labyrinth. And the story is basically a fanfiction remake of the original film. It is terrible, avoid it like the plague!
Hellraiser 10: This is more of a stand alone reboot. Still no Doug Bradley as Pinhead, but they at least give a good substitute this time. This one breaks from the traditional canon of the HR films and instead has Pinhead and another Cenobite actively on Earth judging the sins of ppl for the will of Heaven. This is pretty acceptable. But, once more the only good scenes are with Pinhead. The humans are uninteresting and boring. Probably the best scene is at the end when Pinhead rebels against Heaven's authority and tears apart an angel. The film's worth seeing at least once.
I wonder how the Cenobites would feel if they ever got ahold of one of the rare people that can't feel pain. Bored? I imagine the person would still be immensely traumatized knowing they're being damaged, but the Cenobites believe physical pain is pleasure. It would probably be a letdown if their subject felt no pain and died of a heart attack...
in the book they would give you so much pleasure till the point it was painful sensory wise. if I remember right when they first take you they could give you the feeling of being a baby in your mother's arms.
Thought this during the movie lol
The movie scares me so I won’t watch it but I’m glad you guys enjoyed it.
Also I’m surprised that it was on Disney+.
Ahh you forgot about Hellraiser 2 Joe, you actually see the process for cenobite creation when Leviathan made a replacement to punish Pinhead and his group.
Absolute garbage. They had complete creative freedom too capture the essence of hell. Instead they focused on being woke and creating a shitty freddy kreuger movie. I implore this director to watch the 2013 evil dead and take notes. Any fan of this movie is a fan of the new texas chainsaw massacre . And that speaks for itself
It so rare for a old franchises reboot to be good since most studios are too busy focusing on member berries or relying on nostalgia instead of actual making a fresh new movie to said franchise.
Alex an OJs face when joe starts getting hard for the hellraiser gore 😂
My biggest critique of this movie is I found myself not caring what happened to the protagonists. I don't remember their names or much about them except that most of them seemed like assholes. If they were sympathetic characters with some more build up it would have a lot more impact when they were going through this terrible shit.
did we watch the same film? this was my review imdb wouldn't post --- Hellraiser (2022)
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Text: Oh, you need 600 characters, well I will give you that. The very plastic acting, the very poor costumes, the very poor plot, the very non-threatening feel to the experience, mild, dumbed down, oh yeah whenever there in a horror movie you got the casual, gratuitous sex scene that leads nowhere.. you know you are in trouble. Nowadays with all the tech (see how I used the shorts even though I am battling to have 600 characters, sorry I am not that split of a personality, ...) Anyways I digress.. No gore no real peril, plastic pinhead, (idgaf about her gender) so nylony so calm even xxx parody can doS that. There you go. Minimum character limit met.
Summary: The very poor
Its not pinhead. Thats hell priestess, its the main girl from the 1st two movies she trades places with pin head.
Also they have gore in the movie.
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Also you should watch the movie since I don’t believe you actually did.
This one is actually about drug addiction, its actually really on the nose with it which is funny since you didn’t mention that
the boyfriend being a crook and then leading his gf to her death and the cube knowingly is stupid, because he constantly feels regret prior to and after she learns of his choice. there is no explanation for his heinous behavior "he got paid"? lots of jobs that are non-hell-involved pay fine money.
as for the cube sitting there for years, it could be that he couldn't persuade (and therefore they go "missing") the people who saw him once his wish was granted. Who's gonna take a deal with a guy for a murder box who is also strapped into a mobile torture device??? So that is passable. Failing having more familiars around his house to use, the thief story WOULD HAVE made sense as the reason for his encountering, at a time of want, the tortured cube/cage man - as well as what follows. But only barely.
@@Rainonasphalt yee
@@theirishpotato6588 Dude no one asks you to be everywhere.
@@bio-weaponn5576 I do not care, I'm your mom, go to bed.
You guys bumped your head. To not add spoilers I'd only ask if you noticed the first 3/4 of the movie maintained the same elements that are ruining ROP and Shehulk?
Pathetic.
I did watch Hocus-pocus this morning after your review of Hocus-pocus 2. The movie was okay, I don't think it will be my list of movies to rewatch during Halloween. But from what you said about the sequel, I will avoid it as I rather remember Hocus-pocus when it was decent.
probably got sponsored to make this review
I thought it was sitting at the kids table with the other straight to video halfass sequel cash grabs
I'm not surprised it's good especially because it's directed by David Bruckner
I forgot that there was new hellraiser movie. I kind of wrote this off in my head without giving it a chance because:
1 - Most of the hellraiser movies suck. Let’s face it, after 126 entries in the franchise it’s a bit played out by now.
2 - Hollywood in 2022 is creatively bankrupt.
Really glad to hear that you guys enjoyed it and I’ll definitely check this one out now.
The last Hellraiser is super slept on. Highly recommend everyone checks it out, probably the best since the 3rd one.
Judgement wasn't bad. It was very paced well and the actor for Pinhead was good.
I hear a lot of people saying Riley was not likeable. I thought she was very realistic. Real people are complex flawed beings and they pulled that off fantastically. Did she make mistakes? Sure. Was she ever malicious? No. I find the characters in Don’t Breathe much worse. Let’s go rob a blind guy! At least she was robbing a rich guy that could prob get an insurance pay out (realistically)
LOL ALEX IS A FUCKIN UNIT... DUDE BIG AS FUCK
Just finished it. It was ok… the last 30 minutes really dragged for me and just wasn’t really that suspenseful. Didn’t care for any of the characters either. I try not to expect much but I think my expectations were decently high after seeing the trailer so I screwed myself there lol
I'm jealous you guys have early access to movies. It is not listed yet on Hulu.
It is kinda weird for people to have early acess to this for the fact it's on a streaming platform and not a theater
@@gggggggggg44100 especially if those that have early access are content creators on TH-cam. By them reviewing the movie leads to spoilers. So for movies released on streaming platforms it should be same day access.
@@socaltrojan286 completely agree! I could have swore it showed that it was supposed to release today to but they changed it to the 7th when I looked
@@gggggggggg44100 yup your correct i went to go watch it today and it wasn't there then I checked the release date again and it was changed
@@promontag3 thank you I knew I wasn't crazy lol
The Cenobite at the hospital for the lawyer was blind and only reacts to loud noises which you’ll see at the end when it breaks apart and runs after Riley.
"The Box, You opened it...."
“we came!”
I NUTTED!
"oh don't cry,it's such a waste of suffering"
Just saw a meme that said- Since Disney owns Hulu, that makes the new Pinhead a Disney princess. 😆
Hulu has been criminally underrated for a bit
Disagree. Usually they release trash. But this and prey were good.
I was an Usher at a local theater for the ORIGINAL Hellraiser and MAN - the SEX that was contained in it, for the time, was just off the rails - and memorized by every dude that worked there with me. When the time came to "make sure everything was going alright in the theater" there were at least two Ushers checking that theater (there were only to LARGE screens at that theater, in a mall). This was also enhanced because we were wearing - BROWN TUXEDOS. Ahhh, the memories... Glad to hear that this new one is on a glidepatch that I give a shit about. I didn't watch anything beyond 3 (lured only because of Terry Farrell being in it) and am glad I didn't take the time to consume them. Thanks, Guys!
This was a fun watch and it felt great that the franchise came back strong for once!!!
Hellraiser inferno was a good one eventhough it was straight to dvd
This is not the first time we see a Cenobite transformation. In hellraiser 2 they show the proccess when it happens to Dr. Channard.
Yee
I honestly love the first two movies. The rest...
Glad to hear this one is great!
its funny that I have only see the first two movies of hellraiser and not bothered with the others (with this new as the exception). guess I didn't miss out much.
Yup first 2
It wasn't 2 wishes. Vogt exchanged his wish, he didn't make another wish.
Glad everyone had so much time to talk. Great job joe!
HOLY CRAP I WON!?!?!?! BETTER GO CLICK THIS IMMEDIATELY!!!!
Oops I accidently reported it for hate speech.