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Today, as the film releases in theaters and on PVOD, Magnet has exclusively provided Bloody Disgusting with a sneak preview clip that you can watch below. And yet, the film doesn’t just take big swings, it takes massive ones and there’s still enough of that original vision here to be applauded. Thankfully, this doesn't prevent an uptick in detailing, while the Dolby Vision-assisted contrast and colour palette seem better balanced.
Things I’ve never seen before, the blue of Clare Higgins gorgeously murderous eyes are all the more startling, as is the smashed in face of her first hammer kill victim. It became a hugely popular horror franchise, securing Pinhead and the Cenobites a place in the Horror Hall of Fame. He expertly walks the line being a terrifying monster whilst delivering cutting one liners with confidence and not damaging the brand or heritage in the process. Hellraiser Iii: Hell on Earth sees Pinhead set loose on the sinful streets of New York City to create chaos with a fresh cadre of Cenobitic kin. Normally the films we review here at 60MW are check discs, plain discs with none of the ‘extras’ such as the book included with this set.
Yet by the time the newly formed Dimension Films had green-lit the third entry, Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, with bigger funding comes bigger ‘market considerations’ and likely bigger creative constraint sensibilities…gone is the bizarre trans-Atlantic hinterworld of the previous entries, gone is the warped and twisted psycho-sexual notions of pleasure merging with pain and back again, and sadly gone too is both the visual and narrative stylings that made the previous films so memorable. There are some really tricky elements of these films to try and deal with in a 4K restoration, yet Arrow and their team have done a really fantastic job of providing a set of discs that improve over their previous restorations in every way possible.
The experience of one of horror’s most iconic films in all its devilish glory on the big screen is certainly something that I’ve always wanted to be part of and the Hellraiser 4K Restoration screening was the perfect opportunity to take in the cinematic horror experience.The multiple timelines are solid and the central conceit of the toymaker responsible for the box and his family’s attempts to fix their mistake is deliciously fascinating. Those script problems plague the first act of the film, lazy exposition dumps and flashbacks are seemingly used solely to enable the film to resurrect Julia.
Based on Clive Barker’s own novella The Hellbound Heart, Hellraiser begins with Larry (Andrew Robinson) and his wife Julia (Clare Higgins) moving into their new home, unaware that something evil lurks beneath the floorboards of the dilapidated house – something that wants human blood.Now his former lover Julia ( Clare Higgins) must kill to make him whole again; but the Cenobites want Frank back, and there’ll be hell to pay when they find him. However the toymaker is killed before he can complete work on a second box to neutralise the horrific powers of his first and Angelique is now free to indulge her desires. Likewise, this tightening up of fine detail is readily apparent and first-generation images look stunningly sharp.
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