Review #103: Hellraiser: Revelations (2011)


This review was originally written in October 2020.

October Movie Review #20- Hellraiser: Revelations

Yikes. What a mistake.

I have no other way to start this review- this movie is terrible. Absolutely terrible. According to the IMDB trivia this one was made entirely because Dimension Films realized they would lose the rights to the Hellraiser series unless they made a film as soon as possible, so they churned this one out in three weeks. The only response I have to that is a sarcastic, "No, you don't say?"

This FEELS like someone had to spit out a Hellraiser sequel in three weeks. The only sets consist of 1. Someone's House, 2. A Bathroom, and 3. Nothing Else. Nearly every scene is one person angrily reading off lines while everyone else sits and watches them. There is basically no story, and what story is there, is just a soulless rehash of the first movie (no pun intended). The sequence of events makes no sense, ALL of the makeup in this film is bordering on Spirit Halloween level, and even the sound levels are off the charts! (When the Cenobites finally show up at the end of the film, the main character's mom screams and I kid you not, the audio spikes, really hard.) It should have been telling when the first five minutes of the film were shot on a crappy hand-held camcorder (which thankfully didn't continue for the whole film, though they DID re-use much of that footage as the film went on). Although the camcorder didn't persist, the lack of quality sure did.

I would call the characters one-dimensional but that's implying that they're in any way consistent from scene to scene. Instead, the whole movie feels improvised, except for it to actually be improvised would require some sort of talent on the part of the actors. This movie is stupid. This movie is bad. This movie isn't worth the bandwidth I spent pirating it. Do yourself a favor and just watch something else.

Overall Rating: 1/10 Bad Pinhead Impressions

Most Bewildering Production Decision: Even the replacement puzzle box prop looked incredibly cheap- why didn't they just use the prop from one of the other eight films?

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