Hellraiser II to IV: The Theatrical Descent

[@john_blues]

It would be great to see the original director's cut for Bloodlines.

[@InAwe9000]

Sure would!

[@airquotescomedian]

I first saw Hellbound in the theatre with my mate Jude. The opening music, which I have on compact disc now, made me shit my pants. That's how you open a sequel people, "Quick recap of events then Christopher Young's Brown Trousers Music because, buckle up it's going to be a ride. Bit of a downhill ride but hey, we are going to Hell after all."

[@InAwe9000]

Was Jude bothered by the smell for the following 2 hours?

[@magicvampirelver1321]

​@InAwe9000 😂😂

[@mr.pavone9719]

17:19 YES! And what's more the Cenobites never chose their victims, their victims chose the Cenobites. There's a very big and important difference between the two. Like Pinhead said in Hellbound, "It is not hands that call us, it is desire."

[@andrewdevine3920]

It is desire that shepherds its certainty, as we shall see...

[@Mahoney1]

Excellent analysis, as always. I thoroughly enjoy your videos! Your scripts are a particular highlight!

[@InAwe9000]

Thank you again Mahoney!

[@milkweedreflections]

Dude, love your videos. First 4 Hellraiser movies are some of my favorites. I’m honestly a sucker for some of the later films too.

[@InAwe9000]

Thanks man! 2 more videos about the sequels are in the pipeline :)

[@dhaddine5472]

Yeah … 5 is a good modern noire. It’s a decent enough movie, but it would be respected more if it wasn’t a numbered Hellraiser movie.

[@milkweedreflections]

@@dhaddine5472 5 is Inferno right? One of my favorites in the series

[@dhaddine5472]

@@milkweedreflections yup. I feel of it was a “in the world of Hellraiser” instead of a numbered entry, it would garner more respect. As a numbered entry, it’s lacking screen time for Pinhead and friends. Still a good movie.

[@InAwe9000]

@@dhaddine5472 It had good special effects too, considering the budget and the time it was made. I will deal with Inferno in the next video!

[@rvfiasco]

YES!! I love these so much! I will chill and watch after my busy arse day. Commenting for more eyes on your vids! Send it out to the peeps good ole Algorithm!

[@InAwe9000]

@@rvfiasco PRAISED BE THE ALGORITHM!

[@speakatron5634]

Excellent video, thank you! I'll look forward to your next instalment

[@InAwe9000]

@@speakatron5634 two more sequel videos coming uo!

[@speakatron5634]

@InAwe9000 Great! Very intrigued to hear your analysis of the further sequels. Subbed!

[@InAwe9000]

​@ Welcome aboard!

[@3fingerroll]

thank you , really well researched video

[@InAwe9000]

Hey thank you for watching, I am not expecting much success for these so always nice to hear from you all!

[@josiahbirthright24]

Really is baffling how much power Ebert had considering his lack of taste.

[@kevycanavan]

@@josiahbirthright24 he didn’t seem to like films at all

[@andrewdevine3920]

He and his cohost both strongly agreed the first Harry Potter was better than Fellowship of the Ring. Unforgivable, if you ask me.

[@mikomon309]

I NEEDED this! Thank you for sharing!

[@InAwe9000]

@@mikomon309 thank you for watching!

[@MikeJonesWilliams]

Just found your Channel, love it, would really like to see Bodybags next :D

[@InAwe9000]

@@MikeJonesWilliams Maybe someday! Two more videos about Hellraiser sequels are coming, and then two others.

[@iampoweredup]

My square ass Dad took me to this in the theater when I was 10. It was sick AF. I was already into Motorhead.

[@InAwe9000]

Which one? Hellraiser II?

[@iampoweredup]

@ No, III. Lemmy is the camera guy right?

[@InAwe9000]

@@iampoweredup The cenobite, credited to Ken Carpenter.

[@iampoweredup]

@@InAwe9000 Thank you, that’s right. There were also boobs which was awkward. My old man was a great guy. I am sure he hated it but he was the type to feel like the movie ‘M’ by Fritz Lang opened up such a difficult question he couldn’t process frivolous horror decades later.

[@seanbrazell7095]

I love bloodlines. Some of Pinheads lines are for the ages.

[@john_blues]

“What you think of as pain is a shadow. Pain has a face. Allow me to show it to you”.

[@satisfied656]

Nice video, thanks for the throwback into my time as a youth!☺ P.s: #AdamScott now shines in #Severance, it´s worth a watch too!🤔Greetings from Switzerland, Satis🤗

[@InAwe9000]

Yes I loved the first season! The only series since the first few seasons of GoT that really kept me gorging the season in 2-3 sittings! Hopefully the 2nd season is as good!

[@satisfied656]

@ I watched the new episodes of season 2 (1-3) yesterday...for me it was a blast, at least till now (i hope there is no ending like in GoT😳)! I could only recommend it so far! P.s: i must go to work now but i will come back later with a few movie suggestions for you! I hope you will like it, have a nice day and cu soon, Satis🤗 (sry for my bad english, i´m only fluent in french & german)

[@InAwe9000]

@@satisfied656 Yeah I gotta watch the recent episode myself. When I start editing my videos I just close myself from the world and edit like 14 hours in a row several days in a row. I just came off that, and maybe some Severance would be a good idea. Nice to meet a Swiss. I was supposed to spend a week in Zermatt last summer, already had everything reserved, but then there was a downturn at work, and I took the safe route and cancelled. It turned out to be nothing and I still feel remorse. Some year I will make the trip...

[@nihilismistheonlyway4680]

One of the few horror movies that has ever really scared me! 🤘

[@jonlamenza4121]

You should do the remake of wizard of gore

[@InAwe9000]

I havent seen the remake, and have only heard of the original. Splatter isnt necessarily my thing, but I will take a look at either the original or remake if I manage to find them somewhere.

[@TheBeird]

No horrors brought forth from the Lament Configuration could compare to the greatest evil faced by the heroes of Hellraiser . . . Harvey Weinstein! A true grotesque. Also gotta say, Clive Barker was one handsome bloke. What a dish!

[@InAwe9000]

Oh god damnit, why didnt I do a skit in the video where Channard goes to the Cenobite-booth and comes out as Harvey.

[@lopirobinson1991]

Christ, Bloodline could have been epic. I would've made it three films if I had full control like a Lucas or Spielberg.

[@InAwe9000]

Yeah…

[@Bellpipe41]

Agree. Pinhead works best in the background, occasionally emerging from the shadows. Much creepier. When they put him front and centre as a slasher villain, it lost me… and the cenobites in No.3 are utterly ludicrous. Bloodlines has its problems, but it’s far better than Hell on Earth.

[@InAwe9000]

Great minds think alike 🤗

[@tunguskalumberjack9987]

My problem with watching Hellraiser is that it always makes me so hungry. It must be all the Skinless Franks.

[@InAwe9000]

Did that also happen with Hellraiser: Judgment? Didn't really make me want to eat anything for a while.

[@tunguskalumberjack9987]

@ Yeah, but only if it was all turned into mush and I could eat it out of a trough with some topless nuns for some reason 😆

[@rubberlover666]

Disagree with your Hellraiser III assessment. The fact that they explicitly say in the movie that Pinhead's soul was stolen makes the whole film a parody of horror at the time. Franchises stripped of their original horror in favor of their marketability. It's goofy fun but I'm pretty sure it was winkingly meant to be.

[@InAwe9000]

@@rubberlover666 might be, might be

[@ChatarraCrow]

Nobody ever asks "How is the Boiler Room?"

[@InAwe9000]

@@ChatarraCrow a question for the ages…

[@jjohnson3469]

II is almost as good as the original for me, so no real issues there. III isn't great but has some interesting stuff with the statue? in the nightclub and I always love Terry Farrell. Bloodlines is so so ambitious and I can't fault it for falling short. I'd only call III a bad film and its mostly for how the second half falls apart but even so, he had such sights to show me...

[@InAwe9000]

It would be awesome to find the Yagher's original cut of Bloodline...

[@Jean-PaulMichell]

Well done! I largely feel the same about the first few sequels, with Hellbound being the clear best of the lot. Any thoughts on the recent remake/reboot on Hulu? I actually was surprised with how much it DIDN'T suck; some issues abound for sure, but after so many awful entries, it felt pretty close to being.... well, an 'acceptable' Hellraiser film that had more good than bad elements on offer.

[@InAwe9000]

@@Jean-PaulMichell I have 2 more videos coming few weeks apart, one dealinh with parts 5-8 and the other with 9-11, including the reboot. I liked it, loved Goran Visnijic and liked the visuals and the new Pinhead. The main human characters were not interesting though… but still, it was really surprisingly, in my opinion, the best entry since Hellbound.

[@OdaVenom]

Is Channard really betrayed by Julia, or did she give him exactly what he wanted skipping the "hesitation" part?

[@InAwe9000]

Yeah I get your point. I always interpreted it so that Channard wanted to "see and know", but not to experience it himself, and therefore made someone else open the box so he could observe. I thought he was voyeur and a knowledge seeker, not someone who goes through it, but that is only my subjective view, you might be on to something.

[@heatrayzvideo3007]

There was never enough material in the novella to make so many sequels. Hellraiser 2 is really good though, 3 is OK and fun to watch but definitely a big step down

[@Dominik1986]

Still love the movies, albeit most of them beeing mediocre to bad 👍

[@MintythecatIsABeast]

Could you tell me : which edition and translation of INFERNO are you quoting from, please?

[@InAwe9000]

The physical copy in the video is a Ciardi, I have the Longfellow as well. Then there were I think 3 modern translations I found online, but I cannot remember the names of the translator. I had to mix and match, trying to use Ciardi as primary. Some lines are from one, some from another, sometimes I skip a line, sometime I jump to another line. Whatever I could find that would fit the movies.

[@Concreteowl]

Hellraiser 3 is worse than any of the direct to video sequels until Revelations. I keep wondering if you could salvage the stuff with the unbound Pinhead and Spencer personalities which is the only interesting aspect.

[@InAwe9000]

@@Concreteowl my analysis matches yours. I actually dislike III more than Revelations as III had all things going for it and Revelations never had a chance…

[@PumpkinsChokeaHoe]

roger ebert's review of the original is kinda like huh? you're acting like that's a bad thing.

[@InAwe9000]

Well 0,5 stars he gave the original was a bad thing, considering his influence at the time.

[@kevycanavan]

The best sequels are 4 and 5. I said what I said.

[@SlickA10Homepage]

please elaborate

[@EsaJunttari]

Now we need for someone to reboot the franchise with modern practical effects... Anyone??🫣

[@InAwe9000]

Soon "modern practical effect" will most likely mean CGI done by an actual human mashing the keyboard instead of AI.