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Summary: ya gotta see!
Review: if you like horror movies then this one is not to be missed. pinhead is in top form again. be warned though: the violence is pretty graphic.
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Summary: worst of the series
Review: A very ambitious premise that goes absolutely nowhere. Since the movie tries to deal with three different time periods in only 81 minutes, none of them gets fleshed out very well. The part set in the present could have been skipped entirely. The "twin" cenobites were extremely lame, especially when they kill a guy by squeezing him between themselves. The only worse cenobite was the girl from part III (she burns people with cigarrettes! Scary!) Good to see Pinhead finally get what's coming to him, though.
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Summary: put it all on the cutting room floor
Review: No stars. This film Hellraiser 4, like part 3, has strayed from the original idea of what it supposed to be about. The original demons and the fear that they induced was lost. The articulate and commanding "Pinhead" now tells his tale with "sound and fury" trading in his calm for what appears to be rage. Part of what was genuinely terrifying about this character was his tendency to appear to a small number of victims as if he were a specter. To appear with an army ceases to have impact. After all, Pinhead is an otherworldly creature and is best seen by few, that way he is a tale told by only the mad. Another thing that gave the original Hellraiser a fearful quality was the setting. Set in an England town, it gave one the feeling of witnessing the old and the new overlapping. Few regions provide this mood, but when it is done, the impossible and strange seem more genuine and plausible. If there is another Hellraiser film, I'll expect Pinhead to team up with Steven Segal and sport an AK-47 and a gurka knife. Maybe he'll even have a bedroom scene with Jamie Lee Curtis.
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Summary: A incoherent sequel , which is undineably bad but watchable
Review: Hellraiser : Bloodline , the third sequel to Clive Barker's gore extravaganza is as incoherent as they come as events seem unchained and the style of directing differs from one sequence to the next (obviously because it was directed by Alan Smithee , the union designated name for a director who wanted his name removed , and in the case of that movie he was Kevin Yagher , whose version of the film was mutilated after extensive editing by the producers , and reshoots by other directors). Yet this film isn't as horrible as it's said to be. Indeed the film is muddled , yet some moments of eye-catching visuals and make-up effects , redeem it a bit. And the story seems to have been interesting before it was tampered with in the troubled production. The film also has some frightening moments and will be extremly tempting to fans of the series. So this movie is watchable alright , but you have to be forgiving and put the troubled production in mind in order to stand the clumsiness of it all.
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Summary: THE LITTLE BOX EXPLAINED
Review: Pinhead in space, how cool would it have been? Sadly the film travels back in time to explain the history of Lamarchand's little puzzle box. There are some great blood n' gut scenes, but sadly the film doesn't rate as well as the rest of the series.
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Summary: Welcome to oblivion
Review: Do i look like some one who cares what god thinks ?Unmissible,they truly did save the best for the last , or what ? :)
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Summary: OH MY GOD!!!!
Review: I AM AN ABSOLLUTE NUTTER FOR THE HELLRAISER SERIES!I LOVE THEM!I THINK THAT THIS (FINAL?)PART OF THE SERIES GIVES THE FANS A MORE IN DEPTH IDEA ON HOW THE BOX CAME TO BE! I THINK THAT DOUG BRADLEY HAS PLAYED PINHEAD AMAZINGLY THROUGHOUT THE SERIES AND I WAS A BIT GUTTED TO SEE THE ALMIGHTY PINHEAD KILLED IN THIS FILM. THE SPECIAL EFFECTS WERE GOOD AND THE GOOD OLD TEARING AND REMOVAL OF FLESH AND BODILY PARTS WAS IN THER AS WELL TOO KEEP THE FANS ENTHRALLED!THE BEST PART IS WHEN AN ANCESTOR OF THE MAN WHO MADE THE BOX,JOHN MERCHANT,HAS HIS HEAD SLICED CLEAN OF BY PINHEAD.I ALSO FOUND PINHEAD'S LITTLE POOCH COOL AS WELL. I HOPE THAT THERE IS ANOTHER FILM BEING THOUGHT ABOUT BECAUSE "TRUE EVIL NEVER DIES" AND I KNOW THAT ALL THE FANS WILL BE SCREAMING FOR ANOTHER BLOODY CHAPTER IN THE LIVING NIGHTMARE STORY THAT IS "HELLRAISER"!!!!
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Summary: They saved the best for last!!
Review: The saved the best Hellraiser movie for last!! I have been a fan of the series since it began, and I must say that this was the best of the bunch! It explains the origin of the evil cube that opens the gates of hell, and explores the depth of human evil at the same time. Some of the best characters yet come to life in the short stories that bind together this all too captivateing tale.
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Summary: The closest to Barkers original, and the best of the sequals
Review: The forth and aparent final (?) feature in the Hellraiser series is the easilly the most well thought out and constructed of the sequals. Closer to the original film (who knows how part 3 fits in?) than it's predicesors, Bloodline focuses on the infamous box itself, and the man who created it. The film is actually three viginetts strewn together by a future sequence inwhich the decendant of the boxes' creater recalls how it came into existance, what happened to the building at the end of part 3 and finnally how he will destroy Pinhead once and for all and close the door forever. To try to end this story is pointless since the idea of Hell and eternal damnation is endless folk-lore forever inbedded in society. This would have made and interesting premire for a horror anthology. Plagued with low - end funding and choppy plotting, this movie lacks heart. As well the special effects try so hard to be elaberate they become silly and distracting. Sttill the history, atmosphere and finally a satisfing (if negligable) ending make the movie ulltimately worth the time. Watch the first one and this one together, they fit well that way.
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Summary: I'm a real big HELLRAISER fan, but please give me a break
Review: The worst "Hellraiser" movie in the series. The Pinhead makeup is terrible, the cenobites are a joke, the plot is hopeless, and even the gore is starting to slack off a bit. It all starts in a futuristic space station, and the man on board is attempting to destroy Pinhead and his evil sidekicks. But the cenobites in this look like clowns, and Pinhead's dog should have been laughed at. Of course, the special effects are good, and the opening credits are entertaining with its haunting music, but the rest is just a sideshow thats a hopeless waist of time. If Clive Barker is looking for a way to end the "Hellraiser" series, he is going the wrong way about it.
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