The Hellraiser guys really pulled a number on themselves here by following up arguably the best horror film of the 80s with one of the worst.
This film just doesn't work, but in many ways it does exactly what a sequel should do, which is take what we've learnt in the first film and expand on it in over the top fashion. Unfortunately this film goes so over the top that it's nearly impossible to watch.
In this one the audience is taken into hell, with Kirsty, sole survivor of the first film our tour guide. Again this is a terrific idea and they really go all out to make hell a surreal and horrifying place, but it just doesn't work. I mean Kirsty ends up befriending a young kid and wearing some fake human skin so she can save her life at movie's end and then we have a Disney soundtrack in the background and a feel good moment. Who's supposed to be watching this movie? Little kids? I won't complain too much because I'm not a whiner, but there is too much meaningless carnage, too much Pinhead and too little story for me to rate it as anything but a disappointment.
This film just doesn't work, but in many ways it does exactly what a sequel should do, which is take what we've learnt in the first film and expand on it in over the top fashion. Unfortunately this film goes so over the top that it's nearly impossible to watch.
In this one the audience is taken into hell, with Kirsty, sole survivor of the first film our tour guide. Again this is a terrific idea and they really go all out to make hell a surreal and horrifying place, but it just doesn't work. I mean Kirsty ends up befriending a young kid and wearing some fake human skin so she can save her life at movie's end and then we have a Disney soundtrack in the background and a feel good moment. Who's supposed to be watching this movie? Little kids? I won't complain too much because I'm not a whiner, but there is too much meaningless carnage, too much Pinhead and too little story for me to rate it as anything but a disappointment.