Yes, that's my opinion, you can hate it and that's fine, but I do love horror/scifi and all kinds of other films, but I just didn't find this series to be that great, other than this entry which doesn't feel much like a hellraiser film at all, but that's a good thing obviously because I felt this was the best, it's not a stellar film by any means, but in this film series I feel it's way better than any (including the first)
shareIn a sense, Inferno actually isn't a Hellraiser movie. The script was originally written without the Hellraiser mythology and the heads of Dimension had the writer convert it into a Hellraiser script. The most glaring inconsistency with the original is when Pinhead condemns Joseph for giving into his sinful desires and hurting the people around him. The cenobites don't give a lick about morals or human decency and actually encourage sadism and depravity. The original movie can be seen as a morality tale(Frank and Julia brought upon their own destruction by wanting too much pleasure) but it didn't have to turn Pinhead into a spokesperson for God in order to convey the message.
shareI know I read about its history, I enjoy the eerieness to it and felt it was more mysterious and visually interesting
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I like the first Hellraiser film a lot, but I have never been a fan of the series itself. Even Hellbound Hellraiser II, which many seem to enjoy more than the first, was disappointing to me. The only real reason I was drawn to Hellraiser Inferno was because it starred Craig Sheffer, and yes, I actually enjoyed it rather well. I do, however, have to keep in mind that the film doesn't really capture what Hellraiser is about. It doesn't explore the dark side of human sexual desire which the Cenobites feed off of in their explorations of experience. NONE of the sequels do that, but that is what you get when the series immediately went into other hands that sought to mimic the one scenario Clive Barker gave us (Frank and Julia's desires) in the first film rather than trying to keep it fresh by doing different things with the Cenobites based on each person who opens the box. So knowing that the series never really stayed with the original ideas so much, it is thus easier to enjoy each of the later sequels on their own merits and not judge them as a Hellraiser film, per se.
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I am not a fan. I just happen to enjoy movies. Fans are embarrassing.
I don't think every movie has to involve a hedonist like Frank looking for the ultimate sexual experience, and Hellbound showed us with Channard how versatile the mythology can be. I think in Hell, everything about human experience is boiled down to pleasure and pain, which can be sexual but it can also be intellectual.
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