It's not bad but certainly could have been better.
Interesting at the beginning but it gest flat. Personllay I don´t like the end too much.
Entertaining over all.
this episode was very crappy
Audio engineer needs to be shot.
This convicted pederast sure lost his touch on this one.
DOA. Stillborn. Dead. Aborted. Flatline.
Completely and totally unwatchable movie.
Another remake for the pile.
Mr. Friedkin... What were you thinking?
Stands out from the crowd.
Even Tom Hardy can't save this.
In this film alone, Carol Anne's name is spoken a total of 121 times.
Awful ending to an awful season.
See you around, buddy-boy.
At least this wasn't a shot for shot remake.
Holds up very well after all these years.
It's original. A classic. You don't see unique movies like this anymore.
Unsatisfying ending with the obligatory introduction of a new set of villains. This show needs to end.
Certainly not as good as previous efforts but nevertheless watchable. McConaughey seems very much miscast in this film. Colin Farrell needs more more screen time in this one.
This movie is a masterpiece of the genre. Do yourself a favor and watch this.
Is it just me or is John Travolta looking more plastic? It's fantastic, I guess?
The word fantastic, on the other hand, isn't something I would describe when it comes to this movie.
This isn't a "whodunit" film.
It's a deconstruction of private detective tropes and a character drama depicting a very common life trajectory of an "overachieving" child becoming an "underachieving" adult, and how society teaches children/people to value life achievements above mental wellness and life satisfaction.
The final scene was the most fitting and poignant ending this film could have. It wasn't a cathartic moment, in a sense of relief or vindication. No, quite the opposite.
"Isn't it better to know the truth?"
Not for him, not at the moment. He probably had accepted the likelihood that Gracie was dead long ago. But now, knowing that she had been alive for 15 years, severely abused and mentally traumatized, possibly developmentally impaired, in the hands of someone he had never suspected. The enormous guilt he must've felt. It must've been soul-crushing for him to see his townspeople accept him as a hero again and his business booming.
"Getting any money out of that?"
Because that's all his father cared about, not his son's mental state.
An impressive feature film debut for writer/director Evan Morgan. I'm really interested in seeing what he makes next.
I'm old enough to remember the original Hellraiser (1987). That was a true horror film. There were horrible people, doing horrible things. It left you feeling really quite disturbed about the worst aspects of human nature.
The follow-up Hellraiser 2 (1988) managed to recapture a small part of that. But after that it was downhill fast. The sequels were nothing but parodies.
Well, for some reason, Hulu decided to remake it.
Shamefully, the film fails on nearly every level. It's not well written (terrible dialogue) and poorly acted. There's little horror and you simply do not care about anyone or anything happening in it. It doesn't give you a reason to care either. The Cenobites are not scary, or grotesque looking... they just look like cheap make-up and some bad CGI.
Like the later Hellraiser films It has more in common with trashy slasher flicks than anything else. Poorly done ones at that.
As is common today they gender-switched the main role. Did it add anything? Nope. In fact, I keep hearing about what a good performance Jamie Clayton was as The Priest. I don't know what they were watching. There isn't a performance, it's literally all make up and some lines read out flat. Look at the originals: Pinhead's character is all about small, slow movements and looming dread. He's literally an overwhelming threat and you are the prey. Not in this one though.
Or look at the secondary villain. In the original it's Uncle Frank, who is an awful person who fully deserves his fate. Even in the end as he's pulled apart by the Cenobites... he's drawn to it, and much as he tried to run he still wants what the Cenobites offer. In this new version... there's none of that same grimy, disturbing look into subcultures. It's all clean, boring and badly acted.
Watch Hellraiser (1987) and Hellraiser 2 (1988) and stop there. They did it better on much smaller budgets.
