Hard to believe this was the best they could come up with

So many bad things in this movie. They got rid of the puzzle box and replaced it with a silly jack in the box that you twist around until a blade pops out and cuts you. Obviously, the person opening the box supposed to be cut, but that doesn't happen all the time as we see with Riley, so it's the person who gets blood on the box who gets damned. During one scene, Pinhead causes the blade to come out and stab Riley and threatens her to stab two people or they'll take her, but if Pinhead can stab her with the box why can't he just randomly stab others himself. At the end Riley is stabbing people with the box likes it a knife. When she stabbed the cenobite with it that was ridiculous that it worked. Pinhead just shrugs his shoulders and takes the cenobite like he had no choice, yet he did have a choice because the cenobite didn't take Riley's friend at the end who was stabbed and took her bad boyfriend instead. There were contradictions everywhere in here.

How about that silly line by Pinhead to Voight that a gift can't be returned, only exchanged. As if you're returning something you bought at a department store and no longer have the receipt. Voight was an idiot, too. He knew what the cenobites were all about since he saw a guy ripped apart by hooks in front of him, but he somehow thought "sensation" meant some kind of good pleasure. Does he not know sensation can mean pain, too. Speaking of hooks, you notice they never showed the hooks in human flesh like all the other Hellraisers? The end of the chains was always concealed under clothing and what did show was more in the shape of a U and not a hook, so they chickened out on the gore. And of course, to have a movie, the cenobites let Voight walk around his house for six years with a big contraption sticking through him during which time he got his house renovated into a "Thirteen Ghosts" house instead of taking him back to their realm as they do everyone else. How did Voight explain that thing rammed through his torso for all those years?

I don't get what people see in the new Pinhead. He just read the lines in the dullest manner possible. It really showed when they did the fan service and repeated Doug Bradley's lines from the first two movies. Came out as flat.