So the new Hellraiser is coming to DVD after being shown to one cinema. Although Dimension is working on a big-budget remake of the original, they only had a year to make a movie so they could keep the copyright. Therefore Hellraiser: Revelations was born. And it is one of those children of the cinema that should have been aborted before it could reach maturity.
Doug Bradley hasn't returned for this movie, as he claimed: "Following these discussions, and after reading the script and giving it due consideration, I have decided not to participate. The ink is barely dry on the script, and it is scheduled to be in front of the cameras in two weeks time and in the can by the middle of next month (September 2010). The miniscule shooting schedule is more than matched by the budget...Whether or not this means that somebody else will be stepping up to play Pinhead, I have no idea. I guess we can watch this space together...One way or another, this does not seem to me to represent a serious attempt to revive the Hellraiser franchise."
And that put across perfectly what this movie is. It's a rushed, minimum-buget film with little to no thought about plot, and terrible acting. Although the shaky cam idea is an interesting one for a series which has seen much of the same-old, same-old, it isn't enough to rescue this movie from the garbage heap.
Even the cenobites look strange. Stephan Smith Collins was terrible as Pinhead, seeming to do nothing more than stroke his chains and look meanacingly into the camera. His voice was dreadful, and really, I have nothing good to say about this movie whatsoever.
Rating?
1/10, and that's just because it's actually been made.
