Hellraiser - Bloodline
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Movie Reviews of Hellraiser - Bloodline
Movie Review: "Bloodline" for the discerning Clive Barker fan
Summary: 4 Stars
Hellraiser Bloodline combines a story of a *particular puzzlebox's origins in Seventeenth Century France with Enlightenment era ceremonial magick/demonology. Le Merchande (as mentioned in the comics), a noted local toymaker, is commissioned by a wealthy ceremonial magician to craft the Hellraiser "trademark" puzzlebox (unknowingly) in order to raise the demoness "Angelique" and incarnate her in the flesh of a sacrificed girl/courtesan. Le Merchande is subsequently murdered, but survived by his pregnant wife, thus starting the "Bloodline". The bloodline manifests itself as dream sequences in future generations until "present day" (1996), when a descended architecht designs a building based on the puzzlebox. You may remember the building from the end of Hellraiser III.Erotic demoness Angelique, living in delicious, ageless sin with the magician's apprentice for over three centuries, gets wind of the project and decides to "emigrate", bringing into play one of the GOLDEN RULES of the box and series in general. She, of course, is "humbled" by our hero, Pinhead, and initiated as a Cenobite. Classic Hellraiser follows, with another child surviving and continuing the bloodline into the future and a space station designed by his descendant, bent on ending the Bloodline and **displacing Pinhead and "crew".
Though the space station element is clear "genre" (all long running horror series went to space at some point), the ceremonial magick element is classic "goth horror" with both elements of historical accuracy regarding the nature of black magick and its historical practitioners, and a tribute to Hellraiser's Lovecraftian roots that Clive Barker emulates OH SO WELL...
As far as mainstream consumption goes, "Bloodline" is hard to grasp and the spacestation acting is by-and-large, mediocre. If, however, you are a devotee of Barker, Pinhead, and "the box", then Bloodline is a worthy addition.
*There are several boxes, as you may have noted in "HR II".
**Pinhead has NEVER been completely done away with, just as one cannot take out "the Devil" with a sniper rifle. He and our "inner pandora" are symbiotic.
Movie Review: A real stinker
Summary: 1 Stars
This is an Alan Smithe film for good reason. The movie is pure and utter CRAP! Nothing in it is even remotly entertaining (with the exception of one minor story line). The only thing the movie had going for it was decent gore, which it succeds in, but otherwise a real clunker.Movie Review: To Set the Record Straight...
Summary: 2 Stars
I just want to be clear that director "Alan Smithee" is a pseudonym. For who? Who knows? It is used when a director is ASHAMED of the movie they did. For instance, David Lynch used "Alan Smithee" on the TV version of DUNE. If you see a director with this name STAY AWAY! I will only give BLOODLINE a 2, and that is only because it's part of the HELLRAISER series, and is worth watching with the volume down to get a good look at the nasty Cenobites. Buy this if you've got some extra spending money and everything else in the world that you already want. Otherwise, wait until your friend happens to rent it, and watch it in an altered state of consiousness.Movie Review: A sloppy failure...
Summary: 1 Stars
Pinhead and the mysterious cube are back, this time in the future. We learn the origin of the mysterious cube through a series of flashbacks that have little impact on the overall story and are done in a flat, often boring tone that leaves the viewer wishing for something scary to happen. Scary? No. Gory? Yes. Too gory. This film packs on the excess gore and ignores everything else. But there is a time when gore is scary and a time where gore is pointless. This is the latter. It also marks the "death" of Pinhead but he makes another appearence in the fifth and upcoming sixth entries. The fifth, "Inferno," does not follow the others, yet it is the best of the series. So far, "Bloodline" is the worst.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.