Hellraiser Part 2
Well I kind of implied that I was going to do a second thing on Hellraiser, so here goes a quickie.
I think I gave a pretty clear idea of what my reaction to the first film in the series was back in my original post. Going into the second film I had both the experience of the first and some knowledge of the movie under my belt, so I wasn’t very surprised.
On the whole, Hellraiser II: Hellbound is an interesting beast. This time around Clive Barker gave the director’s chair to someone else and simply acted as producer. As such, the movie is a fair bit more conventional and straightforward in its presentation. It also seemed to move along at a much faster clip.
I think what I really enjoyed about the film was some of the visual aspects. When the characters get to “hell” or whatever, there was some rather fun matte paintings and architecture. Other than that the film is fairly uncomplicated, and actually didn’t have as much payoff as I would’ve hoped (the girl didn’t find her father, which was a bit of a let down to me.)
Overall I’d have to say the first film was a better film, but the second was more entertaining. I think that works. Maybe.
I also saw the third Hellraiser, but I didn’t care for it much. It tried to be a little too silly and then wasn’t silly enough to actually make it okay. The Cenobites used weren’t nearly as well-designed as the originals and their relatively short screen time at the end was mostly doing the menacing slow walk.
And that’s all the Hellraiser for now. Probably not as interesting as the first post, but eh. We shall endeavor for better next time.
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