![]() Jamie Clayton may be a female Pinhead, but the character is presented as largely androgynous and has this ethereal menace which works very well. Maybe the whole recovering-drug-addict-as-horror-protagonist-so-film-is-a-metaphor-for-addiction angle is just played out by now. If you compare this to Frank and his sister-in-law/lover, contrasted with the innocent Kirsty as the characters of the original film, there’s not a lot to hang onto here. There’s nothing I can really point to that’s wrong about it, and the first hour of this film is largely character development with very little horror action, as that’s all backloaded into the second half of the film. ![]() On a story and character level, I just didn’t connect with the film. The only thing we don’t know are the details in what makes this new mythology different from the ones of the original series, and how it all ties into a billionaire art collector who owns the box at the time of their theft. Since we know we’re watching a Hellraiser movie, we basically already know the mystery. I guess the whole “It is not hands that call us, it is desire” angle from Hellraiser II is no longer in play.įor our human characters, we get a recovering drug addict and her boyfriend who initially steal the box from a storage container, but then events happen causing the death of the protagonist’s brother, and thus a journey to discover the nature of the box and if her brother can be saved. So, our structure is built wherein one by one people either solve the box, or get cut by the box, so the Cenobites can claim them and do their deeds. Once enough sacrifices have solved the box, it will reach its final configuration, and a prize of sorts will be awarded to whomever is left holding the box at the end. In this film, the puzzle box has a number of different “stages”, and which each stage is solved a blade will pop out to extract blood from the solver, and lead the Cenobites to take that person and do their normal sex-torture stuff to them, though this film doesn’t lean into the whole “pain and pleasure indivisible” angle as I would have liked, even if it’s more explicit here than in many of the prior entries. In this case, we have a different mythology added to the puzzle box and the cenobites. The basic story here is decent too, except that it’s yet another attempt to graft a slasher formula onto the Hellraiser body. After a bunch of boring and ugly DTV entries in the series, this at least looks like a feature film again with nice lighting and color temperatures and production design. This is a very stylish and good-looking film, coming from director David Bruckner who previously made The Night House. While this new film corrects many missteps the series has taken, it still feels weirdly safe and polished for the subject matter. Starting with the mainstreaming of the series with part 3, there’s been a morphing of this series into a slasher box it doesn’t quite fit in. Those first two films felt like they could take you anywhere, into realms that are otherwise taboo or too BDSM-like for any other horror series. ![]() Sure, there’s good gore, and the Cenobite designs are cool and gnarly, but something that’s been missing from the Hellraiser films since the second film in the series has been a sense of danger. My biggest takeaway from this new Hellraiser film is that it is simply not fucked up enough. Tavour strictly supports independent beer.Reviewer David Leninhawk returns with a look at the latest chapter in the Hellraiser universe. With Tavour, it's easy to beer it forward! Just head over to /gifts to send a gift box or gift card to the craft beer lover in your life. Adroit’s heavy-hitters like this one tend to disappear faster than shadows in darkness. The lucky few Virginians who’ve tasted it rave that Negation is “Probably the best Stout I've ever had that didn't have a lot added to it.” Or, in other words, it’s “ The kind of stout that keeps you coming back for more.”Ĭoming back for more won’t be an option unless you load up on plenty of Negation today. The complexity of this 12% ABV colossus is impressive, to say the least. Allow the brew to rest a while, and the booziness diminishes as the caramel notes grow stronger. Meanwhile, a boozy heat warms between subtle rucks of smooth caramel that punctuate the chewy pour. With every motor oil-thick sip, formidable flavors of dark chocolate energized by splashes of blonde-roast coffee notes dominate the taste buds. The Virginia brewers are renowned for pushing the limits of how bold beer can be, and for having releases sell-out via pre-sales before they’re even finished brewing.Īnd, let me tell you, Negation (Ghost 933) is so bold and craveworthy, I’m shocked we managed to get any! When the Dukes of Dark Beer at Adroit Theory release a new rendition of their Negation Russian Imperial Stout, I can’t just sit around and twiddle my thumbs.
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