Hellraiser Review

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Hellraiser is far from the worst horror reboot on the market, but it's definitely missing some of what made Clive Barker's original 1987 film special. Like many modern horror movies, the film manages to weaken the impact of interesting and well-crafted scares by surrounding it with a bog-standard central narrative.

After eight sequels of dubious quality, David Bruckner takes up the Hellraiser torch for the reboot. Bruckner's work includes some of the best horror anthology pieces of all time and the stellar supernatural horror film The Night House. Frequent collaborators Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski penned the script with a little help from David S. Goyer.

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The original Hellraiser was the directorial debut of Clive Barker, who grew tired of other directors mangling his stories and decided to try his hand at the medium. What he ended up with was a well-remembered psychosexual body horror nightmare that spawned a shockingly long-lived franchise. Hellraiser doesn't quite have the cultural cache of something like A Nightmare on Elm Street or Halloween, but it still has a dedicated fanbase and plenty of nostalgia to burn. The process of rebooting the franchise was a long and unfruitful one, with two sequels dropping during production. The eventual product doesn't feel like a waste of all that effort, but it's not an ideal return to form either.

Newcomers to the Hellraiser franchise won't be completely lost, but returning fans will find plenty of enjoyable callbacks and familiar story beats. The reboot follows Riley, a fragile recovering addict who struggles to make ends meet. When her questionable partner offers to cut her in on a burglary to make