Hellraiser: Revelations

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Hello. It is a very beautiful and interesting film. I recommend everyone to watch it. Have a nice rest

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

I don’t get why you wouldn’t make the lead cenobite something other than Pinhead if you don’t have Doug Bradley, especially when the replacement actor isn’t as good but might have been good if he was a different cenobite. Most of the acting is pretty weak and soap opera style. The writing isn’t good either. They feel the need to spell everything out rather than implying it and letting the audience work out what’s going on, this is mostly because they assume you haven’t seen any of the previous films. It’s a short feature film but there is still repetition and boredom, it could have been half the length without losing anything. A lot of it is pretty goofy, more so than scary. Almost everything that made the Hellraiser series great is gone by this point. It’s not totally unwatchable and it gets an extra point for that but it’s certainly not even close to average. The bad acting makes it hard to watch and the bad writing makes it **** cenobites are not intimidating, there is no tension and it’s too bright. This is basically a bad cosplay based on bad fan fiction made in some LA brats parent’s house and yes, it’s the worst Hellraiser so far.

Doug Bradley is gone. This is a sad day (I mean this movie came out almost a decade ago, but still, I saw it yesterday, so it was a sad day for me). But Doug Bradley is replaced by the new Pinhead, Stephan Smith Collins, who, I’m going to be frank, is absolutely awful. He sounds like he’s trying to do a terrible Doug Bradley impersonation when HE ISN’T EVEN ENGLISH. Collins was born in Chicago. But there are even more flaws aside from that. The cinematography is reminiscent of a bad sitcom. Most of the acting (most, I actually like Jay Gillespie and Nick Everman) is bad. The writing is good in places, but in others it’s horrible. It also has some of the worst pacing I’ve seen in a movie recently. However, despite being called the worst Hellraiser movie, I’ve seen worse in this series. The concept is pretty good, and there are some really creative ideas that if given to the right people *cough* Clive Barker *cough* Scott Derrickson *cough* Doug Bradley *cough* could have been really entertaining to watch. Keywords being ‘could have been’.

Awful This film series seriously needs to bite the dust already, I’m not joking.