First I wanna say what I liked about this movie. In this movie, the cenobites had a lot more screen time than they had in the original Hellraiser. The cenobites are the central plot of this movie. In the original, the cenobites are more of an afterthougt, which I did not like in the original, eventhough I DID like the original in many other ways. It was nice to see that they brought back some of the original cenobites, but also added some new ones, which was refreshing!
The atmosphere was really good. I liked the way they mixed the real world with the hell dimension. The movie had a good amount of gore, which is a must for this kind of movie. It would not be a Hellraiser movie without it. It also looked like many of the effects in this movie was practical when it comes to gore, creature design, etc. So many movies today lack this, and just use CGI, and it's often not very good CGI either...
Some people will probably say that there is only one Pinhead, and that is Doug Bradley. They will probably not even give this movie a chance because of that, which is a shame in my opinion. I'm a huge fan of Batman, and I think that Heath Ledger's interpretation of the Joker in The Dark Knight was the best, but that does not stop me from watching newer Batman movies that has the Joker in it. Everyone makes their own interpretation of a role and it is interesting to see as long as they don't change the character to something else completely. Filling the role of Pinhead can't be easy, but I think that Jamie Clayton did a good job with that. I also liked how they altered her voice to be more intimidating. Give it a chance. Maybe you'll like this interpretation, or maybe you will not.
And now what I disliked or thought was okey at best. The acting was okey, nothing special about it. As in the other Hellraiser movies, the protagonist is still not very interesting. Same goes for the other characters in this movie. Pinhead had too many pins stuffed in the head/face which looked a bit weird and off to me.
Even if you are a fan of Hellraiser or not, I think you should give this movie a chance. There are a lot of bad horror movies out there, but this is not one of them in my opinion. It's a decent horror movie.
The atmosphere was really good. I liked the way they mixed the real world with the hell dimension. The movie had a good amount of gore, which is a must for this kind of movie. It would not be a Hellraiser movie without it. It also looked like many of the effects in this movie was practical when it comes to gore, creature design, etc. So many movies today lack this, and just use CGI, and it's often not very good CGI either...
Some people will probably say that there is only one Pinhead, and that is Doug Bradley. They will probably not even give this movie a chance because of that, which is a shame in my opinion. I'm a huge fan of Batman, and I think that Heath Ledger's interpretation of the Joker in The Dark Knight was the best, but that does not stop me from watching newer Batman movies that has the Joker in it. Everyone makes their own interpretation of a role and it is interesting to see as long as they don't change the character to something else completely. Filling the role of Pinhead can't be easy, but I think that Jamie Clayton did a good job with that. I also liked how they altered her voice to be more intimidating. Give it a chance. Maybe you'll like this interpretation, or maybe you will not.
And now what I disliked or thought was okey at best. The acting was okey, nothing special about it. As in the other Hellraiser movies, the protagonist is still not very interesting. Same goes for the other characters in this movie. Pinhead had too many pins stuffed in the head/face which looked a bit weird and off to me.
Even if you are a fan of Hellraiser or not, I think you should give this movie a chance. There are a lot of bad horror movies out there, but this is not one of them in my opinion. It's a decent horror movie.