https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LERZG74uATE
Already looks better than the original.
You probably mean the purely technical aspects like the HD. Either this or you must be joking,
shareThen you haven't seen the original.
I do love all the studio plants writing glowing comments in the comment section.
Good to see Leviathan.
Trailer was decent. I've had a lot of faith in this project due to David Bruckner being the director, he hasn't missed thus far and he does a great job of tension building. Amatuer Night (from V/H/S 2012), The Ritual (2017) and The Night House (2020) were all brilliant.
I'm assuming that was Pinheads voice narrating near the end...no match for Doug Bradley's but I'll wait to see the full film before judging too much.
The decision to do away with the black leather and simply have them nude and scarred/branded is interesting...I always liked the black leather get-up but once more I'm giving this a chance to see what it does.
Whoa, didn't realize the same guy did all of those. That's promising indeed. And the trailer looks great.
shareDavid Bruckner is the dark horse amongst horror directors, I've been singing his praises for quite a while now. He's gone under the radar thus far. I've been impressed with all his work, the three I listed in particular, he also did a segment on the anthology film Southbound (2015). My memory of that segment is a little hazy but I recall liking it, as mentioned he did the 'amatuer night' segment in the original V/H/S film, the one with the siren/succubus. That's one of my favorite horror anthology segments of all time, it was great.
He's only had two feature length films thus far (soon to be three of course) but The Ritual took me by surprise, superb tension building, an interesting story and creature design and I personally really, really like The Night House (2020).
In case you didn't know, The Night House was originally a Hellraiser script that got reworked into a solo film. This creative team have been angling for a Hellraiser film for years now (if this film is successful they said they'd be down for doing sequels). The writers for this new Hellraiser film are the writers of The Night House, which bodes well as I liked the screenplay for that. I'm not sure what their idea originally was like as The Night House is evidently quite different from a Hellraiser project, but it'll be interesting to see if this new Hellraiser bares a few similarities to The Night House given the same director, writers and TNH originally being a Hellraiser script.
The thought of a film the quality of TNH only this time within the Hellraiser universe and thus cenobites, the lament configuration and more gore is why I've been hyped for this for a long time. Fingers crossed it delivers.
Biggest flaw is that the cenobites seem like guys in a plastic wear. It's too clean. It should be more messy, sticky, more bloody. This seems Hellraiser for children's TV time.
Besides that, it seems inspired by the comics, and there's some good material there. This could be a very nice surprise. I wish they've made a series instead.
You are right. But nowadays they went so far with CGI in cinema that they forgot how to do proper makeup and practical effects.
Don't know about the comics, but I think that the perfect Hellraiser movie would be a noir set during a heatwave. Blood, heat, sweat. Maybe also wetness. Yeah, a pouring warm rain in the middle, for a brief "respite". I would go even further. Set it few years in the future and give it slight vibe of impeding doom (worsening climate, food shortages, whatever).
I remember a story about the first Alien movie. The sticky stuff dropping from him were melted condoms.
They've lost the know-how. There's a moment in the trailer that a cenobite looked like a plastic version of a Doctor Who's Cybermen (minute 1:10).
But the story can be nice. I remember the parts about Kirsty Cotton lost in the Labyrinth and the Leviathan, from the comics, and I really liked it. It seems the movie has used part of that material, which I think was written by Clive Barker himself (but I could be wrong). If the writers didn't destroy it (knock on wood), this could be a decent Halloween movie.
I'm worried about the seemingly uninteresting teenagers in the trailer played by what seem to be rather dull actors. Clare Higgins or Andy Robinson they are definitely not. Although to be fair Ashley Laurence wasn't that great either.
shareThis is straight to Hulu. A low budget affair. They can't afford any top dogs.
To be fair Bruckners previous films are low budget and often feature unknown actors (save for Rebecca Hall), I've had no issue with the acting in The Ritual or The Night House so I'll reserve judgement until watching the whole film but I do agree, I can't see myself taking to any of this cast the way I did to Ashley in the original. They do seem quite bland and nondescript.
>They do seem quite bland and nondescript.
That they do...
>I'll reserve judgement until watching the whole film
Always the wise thing to do my friend. I shall do the same.
The Youtube comments all sound the same, like bots or Hulu shills.
shareBots are everywhere. They've infested Reddit, Youtube, Twitter, Instagram and so on. Best not to bother even reading the comments on those sites. Smaller sites (such as this one) have much, much less of an issue, virtually bot free.
shareWorse yet is that YouTube auto removes comments that are deemed "too" negative, so all you see are upvoted positive comments from bots/shills most times.
Lukewarm criticisms can sometimes make the cut if the comment is brief.
Looks like a Hellraiser sequel. We got like a dozen of these things now. The Lament Configuration FX were pretty cool. Pinhead seemed properly androgynous.
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