Hellraiser - Bloodline
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Movie Reviews of Hellraiser - Bloodline
Movie Review: Hellraiser 4
Summary: 2 Stars
I am a big horror movie fan, I respect all kinds of films. But this one, was alright. The story line was good, the special effects were wonderful but the film needed a huge improvment. There is no features. It's worth seeing, but not buying. Also catch the new sequel that was just released "Hellraiser 5: Inferno".Movie Review: OK
Summary: 2 Stars
This movie has became the usual horror sequal where the script is bad and the acting is bad, and everyone is wondering why this movie ever got script approval, this movie has been watered down to a usual horror movie, hardly what the first two films of this series were like.Movie Review: don't even bother.
Summary: 1 Stars
nowadays it seems as if every horror series has installments that just don't make par with the rest of the series. maybe it's just that some series are better off left as a trilogy and nothing more. hellraiser 3 may not have been a 'perfect fit' with the first two, but it was entertaining enough and a decent enough of a movie to have been an appropriate conclusion to what would've been a great horror trilogy. but then they had to go back and try to take the franchise a step further, now that might not sound like a bad idea to begin with but they made a huge mistake...they tried to do it without clive barker. now clive began the whole thing when he wrote 'the hellbound heart' and then wrote/directed the first movie. he was involved with parts 2 & 3 also but they didn't want him back for the 4th installment. he should've been involved in at least some capacity but no...they said no. the producers came up with the ridiculous idea of having pinhead in space. now i don't know who in their right mind came up with that idea but to me space just don't seem like the right setting for pinhead. since everyone knew from past installments how the cenobites came to be the producers decided they'd try to explain the origin of the puzzle box made centuries ago. now the concept might've worked but the script was just the worst thing ever written. i mean it began in space where pinhead got loose and then decided to go back centuries ago to explain about the toymaker who created the box and how the same family has been haunted for generations by the same demon known as pinhead. the script was so awful that director kevin yagher was so ashamed of it that he was forced to use the alan smithee label just so people wouldn't know it was his movie. i mean by the time they made hellraiser 4 it was just pointless. he had already been sent back at the end of part 3 and therefore there was really no more story to be told. it was meant to be a trilogy. i mean everyone knew about the box, pinhead, and the cenobites from the first 3 movies and especially without original creator clive barker every ounce of the genious from the first two films was gone. part 3 didn't even really live up to the first two but at least it was more than passable but bloodline can't even see passable. all that bloodline is is a slasher basically. in the first hellraiser, it was known as true horror but now they've condescended pinhead down to the likes of jason and michael myers and that's not what the series was about. i sit here trying to think of something positive to say about this movie but nothing comes to mind. even doug bradley's performance as pinhead wasn't quite as good as it was in the first two, even though he's the only one who can play the role. in the end, hellraiser 4: bloodline isn't even worth the price of rental let alone purchase. just stick to the first three and don't even waste time on this failed experiment of a movie.Movie Review: CENSOR ME!
Summary: 1 Stars
First off I couldn't give a damn whether this film was cut or that the editing thereof is a valid excuse for a terrible movie. Simply put it is not. I hadn't rewatched the first three Hellraiser films in many a moon prior to watching this and afterwards started questioning why at one point I had been terrified by any of the movies - yes it is that bad. And you thought Hell on Earth was a crock? Even the Motorhead theme tune at the end of that movie couldn't overtake this one for stupid Hellraiser idea time. Don't get me wrong the theme of the movie in itself is ok - explain the lament configurations origin over the ages. Where it goes wrong is in the execution - half assed attempts at tension and just rehashing the scares of the first 3 movies albeit in a TV Movie way. And as for the cenobite dog - even next doors Jack Russell could have decked it. All I can really say is skip this movie and purchase the far superior sequel INFERNO which at least returns to the themes of the first film and the original novella they were based on. And INFERNO isn't a bad lil movie to boot. Which cannot be said of this mediocre effort.Movie Review: A right load of horse's dollop
Summary: 1 Stars
This unbelievably cut/edited film is absolutely pathetic.I'm ashamed and embarassed to admit I wasted time and money watching it.A third sequel has always seemed pretty desperate to me,but to some drivel like the Hellraiser series(bar number one)?This film seems to rely on vulgar shock tactics to win audience attention.Never mind how chopped and changed it is,I think the real reason the real director,Kevin Yagher,slapped the humiliating Alan Smithee directorial credit on the film is because of how mind blowingly awful it is.I mean,look at that demon dog.What a mess.Whoever was responsible for the special effects ought to be shot.Pinhead's progression throughout the centurie's is told in an extremely uninvolving fashion.Aside from the Smithee billing,I also think the real reason this went straight to video is because of how poor it is.Please avoid.