Hellraiser (2022) [DVD]

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Starring: Adam Faison, Aoife Hinds, Brandon Flynn, Drew Starkey, Goran Visnjic, Jamie Clayton, Jason Liles, Kit Clarke, Oessa A’Zion, Selina Lo, Yinka Olorunnife, Zachary Hing In "Hellraiser," a young woman struggling with addiction comes into possession of an ancient puzzle box, unaware that its purpose is to summon the Cenobites, a group of sadistic supernatural beings from another dimension. Image Entertainment's Blu-ray release of Hellraiser isn't exactly on the cutting edge of Blu-ray excellence, but it certainly gets the job done. Hell Was What They Wanted! - appreciation of Hellbound, the Hellraiser mythos and the work of Clive Barker by horror authors George Daniel Lea (Born in Blood) and Kit Power (The Finite) – NEW (85 mins) One of the most charming facets of Onyx the Fortuitous is its commitment to practical effects, specifically its use of puppets to bring demons, ghouls, and creatures to life.

And Arrow have delivered top notch restorations and a wealth of new and interesting supplementals to help ease the pain for those double and even triple dipping on these films. It’s a handsome set both on-disc and off and should make fans very happy indeed. All the new features don’t focus on the specifics of the films, but of the broader themes and context of the franchise. And they are all well worth watching, even if at times they veer into raging pretension. Digging into some of them, the two documentaries on the Hellbound disc are possibly the best two here, the first being a loose but fun deep dive into the film by a couple of friends which sounds like the kind of conversation you wish you had down your local, whilst the second fully appreciates the work that composer Young brings to the whole series. However the new features on the first film’s disc take an interesting look into Barker and what his work meant to people and it’s a lovely approach to take rather than regurgitate the same talking heads talking about the same film again. down areas of the house. Gore effects -- dismembered body parts, torn flesh, and various blood-soaked odds and ends -- are highly detailed, and even a The Beauty of Suffering - featurette exploring the Cenobites' connection to goth, fetish cultures and BDSM – NEW (28 mins) And into this morass of stagnating blood and guts came Barker’s bizarre creation, itself a Frankenstein of unlimited imagination and horribly suffocating production restrictions, a film that at once showcased a first-time film maker and an author (the film is based on one of his novellas, The Hellbound Heart) whose worlds far exceeded anything in horror or dark fantasy before and arguably since. Far more than the sum of its parts, it opened up a landscape of twisted sexual fantasy intertwined with equally perverse physical torture; it parlayed a prosthetic-driven creature feature into the midst of a very suburban melodrama; and it delivered a sense of the dreamily uncanny, of the off-kilter shot through impossible environments (is it set in the UK? The US? Even our world? Who knows?) and nightmare logic with no discernible rhyme nor reason…Previously unseen extended EPK featuring interviews with Clive Barker and Doug Bradley - NEW (12 mins) This comment section took a very ridiculous turn. As pointed out above, do some research on the franchise before rolling your eyes on a female pinhead. Hell, read some of their comics. One might find that pinhead has been a woman before.. That Rat-Slice Sound - appreciation of composer Christopher Young’s scores for Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II by Guy Adams – NEW (12 mins)

compression issues, and the like are mostly non-factors. The most noticeable area of separation between the Image and Anchor Bay releases is clearly I really enjoyed this film. I always felt the budget could never match the scope of imagination embedded in the Hellraiser films, and here we are, what we see on screen matches the imagination. The story is not as good as the original, but it is better than a lot of the sequels. I feel more effort was put into getting the lore right for this film than making a truly engaging story but that’s ok. Do I want to see more of this brand of Hellraiser, yes I do.years after the classic original (and its solid first sequel), and Hellraiser earns a surprisingly competent and suitably vicious reboot that may just give it a new lease of life. In regards to 2016's Ghostbusters (which i don't understand why you people are so fixated on even 6 years after its release) yeah sure the movie had problems and it was wrong for Paul Feig to double down on the whole culture war aspect of it but lets not fool ourselves because there was a shit ton of racist and misogynistic vitriol directed towards the cast, especially towards Leslie Jones. Hence any legit criticism of that film is forever tainted. Unboxing Hellraiser - visual essay celebrating the Lament Configuration by genre author Alexandra Benedict (The Beauty of Murder) – NEW (21 mins) Lovable everyday demon Pinhead (Doug Bradley) is just trying to do the right thing - be he struggles with the deep dark evil inside himself. After his torture subject Frank (Oliver Smith/Sean Chapman) escaped his dominion of hell, Pinhead must find a way to retrieve his subject. Help isn't far when the beautiful Kirsty Cotton (Ashley Laurence) manages to solve the ancient puzzle box and summon Pinhead and his pain-prone friends Chatter (Nicholas Vince), Female (Grace Kirby), and Butterball (Simon Bamford) to stop Frank. But are they too late to save Kirsty and her father Larry (Andrew Robinson) from Frank and the diabolical Julia (Clare Higgins)? A few heavier effects, such as a train zipping across the soundstage, plays with a noticeable potency but also a noticeable absence of clarity. Dialogue is

The UK DVD release of Hellraiser (2022) arrives on March 27, 2023. As always, you’ll be able to watch the disc here in the States but you’ll need a Region Free DVD player first. Hellraiser (2022), Jamie Clayton, Goran Visnjic, and Hiam Abbass. Hellraiser will debut exclusively on Hulu on October 7. But the return of Barker to being a much more active participant in the fourth film, Hellraiser: Bloodline, promised much…an anthology structure across multiple timelines to explore the origins of the box (now wonderfully known as The Lament Configuration). Yet its strangled production and sadly typical studio interference gutted a lot of what could have been, leaving an interesting but hugely flawed curio that remains to this day the last Hellraiser film to see the inside of a cinema…If Paramount is handling international distribution, that means there are three potential avenues of release. The first is that the film will stream on Paramount Plus later this year, the second is that it’ll head to blu-ray in 2023, and the final option is that it will get a theatrical release later in the year or in early 2023. Resident Evil Labs My favorite are the people who complain about the 2021 "Candyman" being too "political" and "woke" and then going mute when it's pointed out that the original three were as subtle as sledgehammers to the kneecaps on every topic from racism to class inequality to police brutality (which "Day of the Dead" REALLY had something to say on). the clear winner between the two, but not enough, necessarily, to push potential viewers away if this is the only disc available. Image's HELLRAISER is available on HULU in the US now, and out in the UK 31st October in 4K Dolby Vision HDR with Dolby Atmos. The biggest difference right off the bat between the two competing editions of Hellraiser is Image's ditching of Anchor Bay's Dolby TrueHD 5.1