Beyond terrible, even for this franchise
If this doesn’t convince you to not watch this film, then I don’t know what else to tell you.
1. Gone is the menacing Pinhead with a terrifying sinister voice which is replaced by a 90 pound twig female who speaks in a computer voice and has no charisma or screen presence whatsoever.
2. The lead actress is made to look as ugly as possible (unkempt frizzy hair, baggy K-mart clothes, duck lips, and fat nose that’s oozing blood and mucus all film). She spends the whole movie in tears, sobbing, slobbering, and being unlikeable in general. I’m surprised they didn’t put her in a diaper because the filmmakers certainly didn’t want men getting an erection.
3. Even worse, the male characters are all sexualized and chiseled, two gay characters spoon in bed together with their shirts off and we’re treated to a tracking shot of another dude in the shower that slowly zooms in on his bare ass so we can see the water drip down his ass crack. Who is the target audience here?
4. What was wrong with just solving the puzzle box and demons showing up? Now you must get stabbed by cube (drawing blood) or you can just stab anyone you want to doom them? Why not just keep it simple?
5. Female pinhead is now a genie who asks for your wishes……and spoiler alert……all you have to do to outsmart her is just say “I don’t want a wish” haha, is this wishmaster now?
6. Millionaire Mansion dweller guy finds a way to keep the centobites away by creating metal gates in his house….apparently demons don’t know how to breach metal gates
7. An Asian woman with a British accent shoehorns herself into the movie without any explanation as to why she is there. Is she a friend of the gay couple? A ghost from a well? Diversity placement? Your guess is as good as mine.
8. The lighting is way too dark throughout the film and it’s hard to make out what’s going on at parts. Gone is the fantastic lighting when the centobites show up.
9. Once again we’re treated to the cliche lead character being a recovering drug addict (really Hollywood? Again?) and she of coarse becomes an internet sleuth and detective like we’ve seen thousands of times over and over again.
10. Lastly, there is a twist that doesn’t make much sense involving druggy girls boyfriend who was in on it all along because why? His morality blows around like the wind whenever it’s convenient for the story and I still don’t understand why we had to see his bare ass in the shower. Was the water dripping down his buttcrack a metaphor for something? I mean the director used a tracking shot for us to get a good look at it…..did I miss something?
Anyways, this movie is hot garbage. Avoid at all costs.