Am I the only one who enjoyed this movie?
Sure, the acting and script could be better, and the studio interference reduced, but for the general feeling, I actually enjoyed this movie..
Did anyone else?
If so, why?
If not, again why?
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i thought it was kinda cool, did get abit boring with all the past crap but it did also 'kinda' make sense
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I think it's like alot of the early Hellraiser sequels. While they all got worse from 3 [although I do think, despite the rapid idea changes and the scourge afterwards it received for it, Inferno was above average to the other sequels from 3 onwards], each one had parts to enjoy. And while Pinhead got tiresome as it went along, alot of his early scenes were enjoyable. There were some good ideas, and it wasn't bad for 90 minutes of entertainment. It could of been alot better, but the potential was there.
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I thought this movie was alright, but certainly not my favorite in the series. I liked the history and the Pinhead/Angelique conflict, but the futuristic in space elements seemed a bit out of place. I would have liked it a lot more if the movie focused on the history of the box and Angelique.
shareI liked it quite a bit. I enjoyed the fact it went back and explained the creation of the Lament Configuration. Although it would have been a little more enjoyable if it didn't have the space parts. I really feel they just quickly added them in at the last minute, and just for a few extra kills.
Other than that, I really liked it. It could be worse. It could be like the Hellraisers after it. Although they're not "bad", they're not good nor great either.
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I loved this movie for two reasons, although some of the acting left a lot to be desired, and the haunting atmosphere of the first movie is totally gone. The first is, that we get to see the beginning of how it all got started with the box. The second is, and I don't think anyone else has mentioned this, is that this is a horror movie with a super-powered evil guy, and he ACTUALLY DIES! Yes, that's right, he didn't just go on mindlessly forever without end, treating all the fans like a bunch of ignorant idiots.
Try that with Jason Vorhees, Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Leatherface, The Tall Man, Chucky, Skynet or any of a dozen others.
He is an evil entity (half anyway) and his last word was "Amen?!" CLASSIC
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Excellent destruction and last words.
I sort of did....and did anyone else hear the name "Rimmer" and think "RED DWARF?!" XD
shareI did. It was good.
shareI thought this film was terrific. It tells the backstory of the box and how the whole thing came to be, and gives you a look into the future. To me, it made all the Hellraiser:Inferno type movies possible, and pretty much keeps the concept open-ended. I'm surprised more Hellraiser fans don't think more of it.
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Most dislike the horrible butchery the studio did, utterly altering the story of the film, removing all logic (it makes little sense when thought about), dubbing Angelique with an American accent and cutting plot for gore. Theoriginal script is ten times the film it ended up.
Also they dislike the false history of the box, written by some guy with no connection to the series who altered Peter Atkins story so Lemarchand didn't even design the box, he was given designs... awful. The true Lemarchand was a serial killer and mass murdered who produced hundreds of boxes. At least the original script didn't outright contradict this.
And Pinhead killed by a hologram? Again, awful,m he can sense peoples desire. At leats in the original Paul was in the room and went down with the ship, tkaing all the Cenobites with him. Much better.
That pretty much covers the main problems people have with Bloodline. :p
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I quite enjoyed it.
Not the horror movie of the century, nor something I would rewatch many times, but still a watchable chapter of the Hellraiser saga.
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It had some interesting ideas going on, but it came down to bad execution (although I do think there are some good stylish touches throughout the film). Although like someone else said, I agree about the Pinhead/Angelique dynamic, and though this film did the Killer in space thing better than Jason and the few others that did it...
...I think it's worth a watch.
i liked it a lot. it's one of the better ones for me. i like the feeling and even though the parts that took place in 1996 were kind of bland the history of the box and the scenes in france totally makes up for it. i also liked the idea at the end, which i won't spoil.
it trumps the crap out of part 3.
i just can't believe this came out in 1996. i feel like i saw it before then, like 1994 or 1995. i must be mistaken but it doesn't feel right.
to me hellraiser didn't get any better after this. the next two after this one i kinda liked but deader and hellword i liked much less and the very newest one is the worst to me. not just the worst, but it sucks. pinhead looks stupid, i didn't give a crap about the characters. i didn't agree with the sense of justice. they were all low down pieces of crap for the most part. i hope the next one redeems the series.
i plan to read the books soon.
You are not. It was a gift to the fans. I discovered the Hellraiser series with part 3 of all films. I really enjoyed the third film. While I understand the fans who felt smitten by part 3 as it does disrupt the tone of 1 and 2, I loved it when I first saw it. So dark and hard-core, and far beyond any horror film I'd seen at that point in terms of aesthetic shock and evil portrayed so artfully, and so cool. I then sought out 1 and 2 and enjoyed them immensely. I was then a fanboy for the series, and when I heard they were making a fourth one, I was completely enamored. I was in 8th grade when this film came out. The anticipation was killing me. I covered my locker door from top to bottom with Hellraiser imagery. A lot of the pictures were cut out from Fangoria magazines, and many from the Hellraiser and Pinhead comics that had been released. I couldn't *beep* wait.
The theater had a ridiculous haunted house style exhibit for Bloodline in the front lobby. It was really cool, and it was clearly homemade. In other words, the manager must have been a fan, because there was no way this thing was sent by the studio. There was a strobe light and a life scale pinhead standing in this crazy concoction of light and reflective material. It was ironic because the movie meant a great deal to me, and it clearly was a big deal for this particular theater as well.
The movie did not disappoint. Sure it wasn't all that it could have been, and the departure from what Anthony Hickox had done with the third film's tone (so rich with camp and humility) was disappointing, but the sheer scope of this movie is cool, and as I would later come to realize, completely obscure.
Why did the 4th Hellraiser film get this magnitude of production value? Was it truly justified? I was a hardcore fan... I still see Hellraiser as the Star Wars of the horror genre, yet I've learned now how utterly "cult" us fans are. The following 5 straight to video sequels drilled that point home hard. Inferno is the only one I can sit through. 6-9 are pure garbage.
I will always remember the franchise fondly, and I'm thankful we got 4 and-a-half watchable movies out of it!
Also check out the recent BOOM comic book series if you're a true fan. Clive Barker is actually one of the main writers! It is the Kirsty Cotton story after Hellbound. Another gift to the fans.
I liked seeing this movie. Sure, it isn't as good as Hellraiser 1 and 2, and it contradicts Clive's original vision of the Toymaker, but it points out the origins of the box and it wraps up the story. I just wish the writers could've expanded upon Leviathan from Hellraiser 2. They could've expanded upon its backstory and how it rose to power in Hell, and maybe had the Elysium Configuration kill it at the end. That would've at least made the story better.
Welcome to my Nightmare- Freddy Krueger