Hellraiser
1987
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The 2022 Hellraiser is better than a lot of the other films in this franchise, but it's still nowhere near as scary or exciting as the original. Read Audience Reviews. TOP CRITIC. Feb 9, 2023....
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Oct 7, 2022 · The 2022 “ Hellraiser ,” the horror franchise reboot, often resembles an artful and over-produced tribute to “Hellraiser,” Clive Barker ’s kinky and sometimes genuinely nightmarish 1987 shocker. The halting pace, scattered focus, and potent ghastliness of Barker’s movie reflects its nature as Barker’s feature directorial debut, a ...
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By Matt Donato
Posted: Oct 5, 2022 4:00 am
Hellraiser will be streaming on Hulu on Oct. 7, 2022.
David Bruckner's Hellraiser is an excitably reverent retooling of Clive Barker's original horror classic and the author's novella, The Hellbound Heart. Writers Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski take David S. Goyer's story treatment into alternate realms of sensual punishment, far from Kirsty Cotton's encounter with the Lament Configuration. Barker's Hellraiser favors ‘80s horror tendencies of a more stripped but graphic nature — Bruckner's able to expand storytelling and scope, going with a "bigger" mentality that still writhes with infernal carnal pleasures. It's respectfully indebted to Barker's psycho-sexual confrontation of eroticism and violent punishments. Yet, Bruckner never attempts to retrace what Barker's already colored outside typical horror lines — Hellraiser 2022 thematically raises hell on his newly renovated terms.
Odessa A'zion stars as Riley McKendry, an early-20s addict trying to cleanse her habits with a 12-Step Program. Brother Matt (Brandon Flynn) is her loving but overbearing housemate, who chases her out after another night when Riley stumbles home drunk after seeing new boyfriend Trevor (Drew Starkey). That night wasn't just tainted by substance abuse, though — Riley and Trevor steal an ancient puzzle box that Riley unlocks after ingesting a few pills. In a drug haze, she's visited by The Priest (Jamie Clayton), this cross between angel and demon with pins stuck into her smooth head. She warns of the box's hunger for blood and what it demands, which begins another Hellraiser tale where humans are shown sights they cannot comprehend — gory sights that flay, pierce, and strip away skin.
Clayton is a harbinger vision as Bruckner's The Priest (aka Pinhead), introducing repulsively chic new Cenobite forms. Gone are the black leather BDSM costumes; pale cadavers with exposed muscle tendons are like peeled underworld bananas. Effects artists Josh and Sierra Russell reteam with Bruckner after The Ritual and The Night House to bring concept designer Keith Thompson's Cenobites to life, honoring favorites like "The Chatterer" with the instruction to ensure silicon suits could handle mobility. There's nothing lost with Cenobites covering more ground, acting as hunt-and-stalk creatures throughout Berkshires manor grounds. From The Masque (Vukašin Jovanovic) with his flesh-stretched facial canvas being where his head should be to The Gasp (Selina Lo), an extreme upgrade to a prior Cenobite dubbed "Deep Throat,” Bruckner's extradimensional beings appear as wishmasters exiled from heaven and accomplish looking revoltingly seductive while breathing new life into the franchise.
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Hellraiser is a soulful revival of a soulless horror legend that never tries to oust Clive Barker's original. Director David Bruckner — alongside writers Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski — examines Hellraiser's themes with spectacle styles through addition. Jamie Clayton is the Pinhead a new generation deserves, awash in Bruckner's colder cinematogr...
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Elevated by writer-director Clive Barker's fiendishly unique vision, Hellraiser offers a disquieting - and sadistically smart - alternative to mindless gore.
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Oct 5, 2022 · Hellraiser review: a grotesque shock to the system - The Verge. Film. Hulu’s Hellraiser is a shock to the system that gets a little lost in its grotesque excess. David Bruckner’s new...
