When Matt comes to find her, he cuts himself on the puzzle box. Dizzying herself in a local playground, she sees her first vision of the evil she has unknowingly unleashed, a ghostly corpse awaiting its fate. When Riley’s brother Matt (Brandon Flynn) suspects her of using drugs again, he kicks her out of the house where she’d been staying with his boyfriend Colin (Adam Faison) and roommate Nora (Aoife Hinds). Hoping for a quick score, they agree it must be worth something and take the creepy item. The ceiling opens and Voight accepts his fate with maniacal glee.Įighteen months later, Riley and Trevor break into a safe where they discover the box. Voight quickly unleashes the mysterious ancient puzzle box on his young prey, which cuts his hand and sends chains out from every direction to maim him. Though it’s set up as a creepy seduction, the fun doesn’t last long. A wide-eyed young man (Kit Clarke) is lured by Sabrina (in a fun part for Palestinian actress Haim Abbass) to the inner sanctum of eccentric businessman Roland Voight (“ER” cutie Goran Višnjić). It just happened, explains Trevor (Drew Starkey) as he throws his clothes on and leaves in an awkward flutter.īacking up a bit, the film opens with an “Eyes Wide Shut”-style sex party at a mansion fortress in - you couldn’t have guessed it - the Berkshires. We meet her in flagrante, which ends abruptly with an impulsive “I love you” muttered from behind her, causing Riley to stop mid-act and lightly punch the guy. In a strong show of charisma, Riley is played by up-and-comer Odessa A’zion, whose scrappy allure makes her a breath of fresh air from the usual Hollywood aesthetic.
It’s more feminist than anything else, with the darkly magnetic Riley leading her mostly male compatriots towards their twisted demise. Taken on its own merits, “Hellraiser” is the story of a defiant young woman battling addiction. Oscars 2023: Best International Feature Film Predictionsįrom 'Reality Bites' to 'Fatal Attraction,' Keep Track of All the Upcoming Film-to-TV Adaptations 'Sell/Buy/Date' Review: A Confused Anti Sex Work Documentary from EP Meryl Streep 'Queens of the Qing Dynasty' Review: A Hospital Friendship Unfolds in Ashley McKenzie's Sophomore Outing Either that, or they were stymied by the Hulu (AKA Disney) of it all. Capably directed by David Bruckner and written by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, “Hellraiser” feels like it came from a team of straight horror guys who know what they’re doing, but still entirely missed the point. It’s perfectly entertaining, using Barker’s inventive tropes to tell a solidly gory nightmare, but it’s a pale vanilla shadow of the original.
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Shedding the subtitles like a cenobite’s skin, “Hellraiser” is a 2022 rebirth for the franchise, free of all the sexy subversion that got it here in the first place.
It’s Disney does “Hellraiser,” which - incidentally - is exactly who paid for this latest iteration the classic. Unfortunately, all of the kinky perversion has been scrubbed clean from the new version, with only a nice gay couple left in its place. Based off of Clive Barker’s 1986 novella and originally adapted by Barker in one of the great writer-to-filmmaker transformations, “Hellraiser” belongs to the freaks, punks, and fetishists who saw themselves in the S&M-inspired looks and story of unhinged sexual exploration. Once certain properties attain cult status, its followers will delight in any offering, even if only to fuss over its ranking in the canon. It’s not likely that any review, positive or negative, will effect the reception of the latest “ Hellraiser,” now the 11th addition to the cult horror franchise.
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