This new chapter in the Hellraiser series was a welcome change of pace. The first two sequels were basically treading out the same ideas as the first - Open the box, demons come to tear you apart (usually involving chains with hooks). Bloodlines tried to add new ideas, charting the history from beginning to end, but as the finished product was "Alan Smithee"d, I find it hard to comment fairly on that film. I'm not sure what the finished product was envisaged to be.
Inferno was a different altogether. I tried a new approach to the result of opening the box, more cerebral in effect. In actual fact, I could draw some comparisons to Jacob's Ladder for the concepts used here (a film I love dearly). I found the film psychologically powerful, and disturbing by non-violent means.
Craig Scheffer does a great job as the lead. Come to think of it, I haven't seen him in much other than Nightbreed. Good to see him being given a good role again.
Some people complain that Pinhead wasn't in this film very much. Well, he wasn't in Hellraiser 1 much either. Clive Barker was wanting Hellraiser to go in new directions, and I feel that Inferno has managed to do this nicely. Which makes Barker's comments about Inferno a little perplexing to me.
Inferno was a different altogether. I tried a new approach to the result of opening the box, more cerebral in effect. In actual fact, I could draw some comparisons to Jacob's Ladder for the concepts used here (a film I love dearly). I found the film psychologically powerful, and disturbing by non-violent means.
Craig Scheffer does a great job as the lead. Come to think of it, I haven't seen him in much other than Nightbreed. Good to see him being given a good role again.
Some people complain that Pinhead wasn't in this film very much. Well, he wasn't in Hellraiser 1 much either. Clive Barker was wanting Hellraiser to go in new directions, and I feel that Inferno has managed to do this nicely. Which makes Barker's comments about Inferno a little perplexing to me.