RE: Hellraiser (2022) Review & Lament
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Excellent review!
While there are lots of problems I was generally entertained but my expectations were so low given the franchise history. I thought it was going to be worse!
The cenobites feel sanitized and non-threatening, designed by committee so to speak. Your mentioning of the dry look is spot on. There's also a big issue I found with the darkness washing out many scenes. The streaming bitrate was quite low and it shows, I wonder if it'll look any better once on Blu-ray or UHD as most scenes looked muddy to me. They probably want to hide direct shots of the makeup too.
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Haha so true, at first I thought that was Sigourney Weaver from Alien. What a terrible cut.
I wasn't aware of the whole trans angle here with Jamie Clayton. I looked her up and she seemed familiar and then I saw she was in Sense8. You can't even tell under all the makeup anyhow.
I ended up watching this and then the first two movies right after. This is the real deal. I'm actually going to watch the rest of the films again as it has been years since I've done the entire series back to back.
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Thanks for reading friend - I think you hit the nail on the head (as always and no pun intended) with how non threatening and sanitized everything feels. Its just a joke. Glad you caught up with the OG movies, rest in the series can be hit or miss but all have something you can take away from them.
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