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Seems like they were trying to make a Hellraiser at the start, then the writers decided "fuck it" at a certain point.


No more exploring the extremes of pleasure and pain and all that, Pinhead was just out for blood. I wonder if the producers stepped in at some point and told them to make get the body count higher, take the violence to slapstick like levels, bring in many ridiculous new cenobites, and so on...

That's often the case when a movie is all over the place.

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I think they were aiming for the 'slasher' franchise in the early 90's?
Personally, I prefered #5 (despite the script being originally nothing to do with the cenobites)

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Probably. There were some Freddy Krueger like jokes when they killed someone at times.

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Yep. I've read somewhere that the filmmakers found Barker's original conception of Pinhead pretentious and high falutin, and deliberately modelled the character in HR after latter day Kreuger

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Probably explains the conflicting mess that was #4 (good intent/producers interference)

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I enjoyed this for the most part about 2/3 of the way through. Probably right up through the slaughter at The Boiler Room. But then it seemed to get real stupid. Once the Cenobites were chasing the reporter Joey through the streets and blowing up cars and windows, it felt like a Terminator movie. Then the stupid one liners just didn't work at all.

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" THATS A WRAP!"

Yea your right 2/3rds is good, followed by a steep dive

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Yes, the scenes of the Cenobites doing things like walking down the street just destroying everything in their path was pretty much it. At that point, there wasn't much of any connection to the original conception of the Cenobites.

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