Look, I had a crush on Terry Ferrell since "Christine" and a very minor episode of "Family Ties"
So, it's kinda fun to see her in something very un-wholesome whilst being the most wholesome thing ever.
The story is of a journalist who is having nightmares of a father who died in Vietnam. He was never a part of her life, but she has these re-occurring night terrors about it. We will come to find that these night terrors aren't enough for the audience to believe the stakes are that high. She also goes into the dreams of an Elliot Spencer, who becomes pinhead.
Terry befriends a junkie club girl who has a boyfriend who is that kind of rich you want to beat up. A spoiled child who picks up women at the club he owns. He acquires the Pillar of Pinhead. And feeds it blood to come alive. This is a loose callback to the first two flicks.
Obviously, we're all waiting for Pinhead to return.
Overall, the film isn't unwatchable. It's just structured blandly. The potential was great, but it didn't seem like they had enough time to really allow us to like Ferrell's character. She's saddled with exposition and balancing the tone of horror and fatherless trauma. I guess.
Perhaps that would've been a better focus instead of adding superfluous characters that are just meant to be turned to Cenobites later.
It lacks the emotional punch of what I believe Clive Barker intended. But to be fair, the first two also seemed to have a cold disposition that doesn't keep you involved.
It's okay. A decent entry into this franchise.
The story is of a journalist who is having nightmares of a father who died in Vietnam. He was never a part of her life, but she has these re-occurring night terrors about it. We will come to find that these night terrors aren't enough for the audience to believe the stakes are that high. She also goes into the dreams of an Elliot Spencer, who becomes pinhead.
Terry befriends a junkie club girl who has a boyfriend who is that kind of rich you want to beat up. A spoiled child who picks up women at the club he owns. He acquires the Pillar of Pinhead. And feeds it blood to come alive. This is a loose callback to the first two flicks.
Obviously, we're all waiting for Pinhead to return.
Overall, the film isn't unwatchable. It's just structured blandly. The potential was great, but it didn't seem like they had enough time to really allow us to like Ferrell's character. She's saddled with exposition and balancing the tone of horror and fatherless trauma. I guess.
Perhaps that would've been a better focus instead of adding superfluous characters that are just meant to be turned to Cenobites later.
It lacks the emotional punch of what I believe Clive Barker intended. But to be fair, the first two also seemed to have a cold disposition that doesn't keep you involved.
It's okay. A decent entry into this franchise.