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WHOA

posted 11 years ago by jakemon08
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Here I was watching this movie thinking how much of a turd it was. Makes no sense. How are these cenobites visiting him in dreams? When he does actually see them why are they just hanging out in the woods? How could there be a cenobite loose just murdering people, and why would he have a vendetta against Joe? What's with the cowboys? Is he hallucinating things? Lots of what the hells. Then the reveal at the end... This is his hell. WHOA. This makes all that nonsense make total effing sense! I go 95 minutes hating everything I'm seeing and in the final 2 minutes I realize it's absolutely genius. Bravo.

And the flowers are STILL standing!

[–] patrick-413 11 years ago

Jake, I read your note and I'm thinking "I'll bet the director would like to shake your hand". I'll bet that's exactly the reaction he was hoping for! Personally, I kind of got the big turnaround a lot earlier, probably because I'd seen or read it a few times in the past in other stories so I kind of had my eye out for it. But it's cool to read your reaction and think of how happy the filmmaker would have been. ;)

Really liked the movie myself, by the way.

[–] jakemon08 11 years ago

Well I knew going into it that it was taken from a preexisting script that had nothing to do with Hellraiser and reworked as a Hellraiser film. I found that incredibly obvious. But that reveal at the end was obviously a quick way for them to make it all make sense. I'm not saying the reveal made it good, it just made it make sense.

And the flowers are STILL standing!