Before continuing, read the Hellraiser: Revelations post at Alien Bee Entertainment and give them some credit.
You can also check out the trailer below:
Got it? I would normally not give this any time but there’s a matter of Pale Imitations to be discussed. First of all, this looks to be a pale imitation of Clive Barker’s work. From what I’ve read, a better script may have been thrown away in favor of this: Blair Witch 2 with Cenobytes. Then, in the story, Pinhead himself makes a pale imitation of Pinhead. That is, he appears to convert a living mortal to a Pinheaded but not-Pinhead Pinhead-like Cenobyte.
So, the pale imitation of Pinhead is making a pale imitation of the pale imitation of Pinhead. Only the pale imitations are rather not as pasty as the paler source material. These pale imitations are burdened with copious amount of guyliner. Thus, the pale imitations are considerably less pale than the pale originals that they are pale imitations of.
That is to say, there is a pale imitation (Pinhead 2) of a pale imitation (not-Doug-Bradly Pinhead) of a creature (Barker/Bradley’s Pinhead) that was unlike like the original in the Hellbound Heart – who was described to have the voice of a cheerleader. This Nth generation pale imitation fails to be as pale as the original.
Oh, to hell with it. You can expect my Netflix review in a few years (or maybe weeks) when it hits Netflix instant.
