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Absolutely brilliant

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

There was once, way back, a little horror movie called Hellraiser. From the mind of English writer Clive Barker, the movie took place within a dark world in which the Lament Configuration existed: a puzzle-box fascinating to anyone with an affection for mind games, and irresistible to those looking to push the boundaries of earthly pleasures. It also opened a gateway to Hell, in which a gang of sadistic demons named the Cenobites roamed in search of thrill- seeking fools to prey upon. It is now an established horror classic, and naturally spawned sequels, each declining in quality as the movies were farted out by a Dimension Films keen to keep hold of the rights to a franchise they could someday reboot. A matter of weeks before the rights expired, Dimension, now owned by the Weinstein Company, rushed production on the ninth entry in the series. The result, dubbed Revelations, was such cinematic cancer that Barker took to Twitter page to distance himself from the tripe.Steven (Nick Eversman) and Nico (Jay Gillespie) are two young horndogs who escape their middle-class family for the seediness of Mexico, where they hope to guzzle tequila, f**k prostitutes, and generally act like annoying a**eholes. A year later, the boys haven't been heard from, and their two families gather for dinner and drinks. Steven's mother Sarah (Devon Sorvari), via a private detective, has obtained her son's video camera, which shows Nico opening the Lament Configuration and being approached by Pinhead (Stephan Smith Collins) and his cronies. We flash back and forth in time between Steven being forced to lure victims for his friend in order to regenerate his body and skin, and the family's utter shock at Steven's sudden re-appearance and increasingly bizarre behaviour.Series regular and all-round horror icon Doug Bradley turned the movie down. Despite having to straight-face his way through Rick Bota's torturous sequels - which were already taking enough of a dump on Barker's mythology - he took one look at the script and walked away. Newcomer Collins already faced an impossible task of filling such iconic shoes, but with little to do other than rattle a few chains and donning some terrible make-up, he comes across like a chubby kid in cosplay making his own movie at home. The acting is unspeakably bad, with Eversman in particular failing to convince as an actual human person. Director Victor Garcia doesn't seem interested in even half-a****g a set-piece, with the majority of time spent with Steven's cardboard parents fretting over their blood-spattered emo child. There was only one thing in mind when this celluloid sneeze was bungled together: money. A vision that was once so fresh and shocking now represents a studio at its greedy worst, disrespecting the artist who created it all and the fans who love him for it.

"Hellraiser: Revelations" does wonders with its primary limitations: small budget, short set time, and no Doug Bradley. But, as a fan of Clive Barker's world, I got everything I wanted: an expansion of the suspenseful Pinhead, and a formulaic honesty to the original two films before "Hellraiser III" transitioned the lively horror-drama into a pop franchise. Unlike the other 2000-era 'Hellraiser' films, "Revelations" honors the first two films by making Pinhead and the illustrious Box prominent foundations of the plot. It includes other gems of the originals as well: themes of the flesh, a complex family drama, and torturous visual artistry that isn't only gory, but also resonates within a dark part of our primordial psyche. Pinhead's presence is highly rewarding and a lot of fun to observe. But the character's longer dialogue seems written more fitly for an expansive 'Hellraiser' TV series, which makes you miss Doug Bradley's demigod-like presence all the more; with him, less was always more when it came to dialogue. I love 'Hellraiser' films because the fantasy is so intermingled with the conditions of human life. Everything we ever feared about sin, Hell, God, and evil comes to the surface through Clive Barker's themes. This film is conscious of these resonances and does its best to continue them. However demonic and detached he is, Pinhead is more humanoid in his motives and mannerisms than Jason, Freddy, and Michael combined. We want to go deeper with him. "Revelations" is that next step forward into Pinhead's realm since "Bloodline" which marked the conclusion of Barker's direct influence on the films.

After reading some of the comments here I had a thin hope that there might be some redeeming quality to this movie... but no such luck. Really, it's just a bad movie with an awful script... made so the folks who own the rights to the franchise can hold on to it. It does nothing new and merely rehashes the various Hellraiser tropes and visuals. The main villain is a spoiled teenage brat who is mad at his parents... boo hoo. No one in this thing is sympathetic or scary or funny or anything... just actors reciting regrettable lines. It doesn't bother me that Doug Bradley isn't in it... but it does bother me that none of the characters, Cenobite or not, is given anything interesting to do or say. It's a pile of crap, don't bother watching it because it wasn't made to be watched.

Two kids decide to leave their life of luxury behind and take a trip to Tijuana. One of them films everything with a camera. They pick up a girl at a bar, but the alpha guy steals her from his friend and has sex with her in the bathroom. The other guy walks in on them. Next morning they wake up in the bathroom (?) not remembering much but find the girl in a stall with her head smashed in. After some drama they go to another bar where some bum appears and offers them all sorts of experiences--he hands alpha guy the lament configuration box.Some of this is told backwards and in pieces. The two rich 1%er families of these kids have a fancy dinner. Also there, the sister of beta guy who was alpha's girlfriend. They have the bag of beta guy and in there is the camera and the mother watches and re-watches what happens to them after they open the puzzle box.What happened was that Pinhead of course shows up, chains alpha, there's another Pinhead-in-the-making and some other cenobites. All this is explained later when surprisingly the beta kid arrives at home much to the delight of the family. He's in shock and announces that they are coming. When he wakes up, he's actually not quite himself and eventually flips out. The bum also appears similarly announcing bad news for all. Eventually all hell breaks loose and we find out exactly what happened in Mexico.If you read in the trivia section how this movie came about, how production was rushed and took only a few weeks; how it was written by a guy who does make-up, and directed by someone with little experience, the surprise is that Hellraiser: Revelations isn't even worse. The score on IMDb is a bit unfair to the resulting product. Revelations isn't any worse than the awful 4 movies that preceded it. How can the terrible Inferno have double the score of Revelations? But it is fair score as a punishment to those behind this cynical and moronic project, the sole goal of which was to allow Dimension to keep profiting from the first movie. The unwillingness to hire Doug Bradley to play Pinhead is the catastrophic flaw of this movie. Because his replacement is a disaster. And the guy they hired to do his voice is even worse. And without a strong Pinhead you can't have a strong Hellraiser.The script in general isn't too bad. It has some good ideas...and some bad ones. Especially bad is the idea to have another little Pinhead. But worse is that the script doesn't have are any good lines for Pinhead. None.The movie features some POV camera work, not a whole lot. It does actually a good job of integrating POV with third person. The cast does a solid job I must say, even though I'm not crazy about the casting of the two kids. The lovely Tracey Fairaway is a revelation as well as the attractive first Mexican girl (Adel Marie Ruiz?). There isn't a whole lot of gore or horror as the movie is more interested in family drama.I'm giving the movie itself a 6. As a Hellraiser movie without Doug Bradley though, a 3 is indeed appropriate. Perhaps one day someone will pick up this franchise who will finally give Hellraiser fans something to be excited about. Instead of struggling to remake the first one, Hollywood should just give us a decent sequel. It shouldn't be that hard even for lalaland geniuses.