Review of Hellraiser: Revelations (2011) by John O — 08 Apr 2015

Hellraiser: Revelations is the final entry in this horror series but it is not an end to the series, just an un-needed sequel. First off this film features a brand new actor playing the iconic Pinhead and it is obvious, not even close to looking or sounding like the original.

This film does not even have the feel of being a Hellraiser movie and it focuses on 2 kids in Mexico and their families back in the United States. It then turns into everyone being stuck at this giant house in the country with nowhere to go.

Pinhead does makes an appearance or two, mainly in the final sequence but all horror is lost along the way. There are a couple interesting scenes but for the most part it was rather dull. Now that I have watched this entire horror series I have come away with the conclusion that this needs to be renamed, The Puzzle Box because it is the only consistent, frequent thing in the whole series.

The main bad guy, Pinhead rarely appeared in any movie and he was so mysterious that you never became attached to him or let alone scared by him. If they re-boot the series like I have heard, they have a tough job to create a film everyone will want to see.