Hellraiser: Revelations
2011
The Cast
Out of an original idea and story comes another unoriginal take on the Cenobite mythos...
It's spring break and teenage friends, Nico Bradley (Gillespie) and Stephen Craven (Eversman), are vacation-bound. However, Nico has a different idea of their destination. No longer will they be partying on the beach but will be having an adventure in Mexico. Whilst enjoying themselves in a strip joint, they're approached by a vagrant who offers them visions and sensations beyond their wildest imaginings... Upon accepting the L'Merchant Configuration, Nico starts his journey into hell. Months pass and the boys are missing and feared dead. Their parents are having a dinner party when things start to take a dark and nasty turn as the Craven's daughter Emma starts asking some awkward questions... then things get worse when Stephen returns... covered in blood.
This goes across ground covered in the first two films and Inferno and it wouldn't have been so bad had the Director, Garcia, brought across some of the imagination and style of the first two movies. However, he doesn't. What the audience gets instead is pretty standard direction with a much too slow pace, which only adds to the boredom factor. If it weren't for the acting this would have been a dire affair.
None of the cast actually stand out except for Stephan Smith Collins. Unfortunately, it's for all the wrong reasons. Collins has to be the worst choice ever to replace Bradley as Pinhead. Where Bradley had the presence and power to make Pinhead ominous and to ooze threat and force. Collins has about as much presence as a wet lettuce. His Pinhead couldn't scare a Scaredy-Cat or a Cowardly Custard. It's this that has the worst effect on the film. The audience suffers the direction and pace in the hopes of something interesting happening... then it doesn't. At least with the previous movies, no matter how bad, you still had a powerful character in Pinhead. What's even worse is that Collins couldn't carry off Pinhead's voice so they brought in the vocal actor Fred Tatasciore... who also couldn't do the voice justice...
Then to add insult to injury we're introduced to Mini-Pinhead... yeah, that's right... just to put the cherry on the cake. They couldn't even come up with a new and different Cenobite. This too could have been better had the writer, Tunnicliffe, decided to have Nico remind Pinhead of his human-self... this could have, at least, added a little more interest into the two characters.
There's not much going for this film so I'd not recommend it. As usual, it's the original films that are worth your time and attention.
I give this a Boring Box of Unchained Monotony a 4 out of 10.
The Trailer
Oh, My God! Even The Trailer Is Boring...
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