![]() ![]() Hellraiser (2022) is a different story entirely, one loosely about the destructive allure of addiction, and the lingering scars and regret it leaves behind. ![]() Either way, they all seem a little complicit in the need to… explore the farthest reaches of experience. The original is a story about a small family where some members are decent and “normal,” like an oblivious father and his concerned twentysomething daughter, and some are already halfway down the primrose path, such as the father’s wife and his brother, who are always seeking the forbidden pleasure of adultery. ![]() The 2022 picture is a new story with all new characters that narratively does not revisit, even in passing, the psychosexual melodrama that everyone forgets underpins Barker’s original 1987 movie, as well as the Barker-penned novella it was based on, The Hellbound Heart. All the trailers and ads tease of familiar sensations, and suggest that we’re going back to the original source material for Clive Barker’s twisted mingling of pleasure and pain, dominance and submission.īut in truth, this movie could almost function as a sequel to the original Hellraiser flicks-or at least the handful of early good ones before the series devolved into straight-to-VHS and DVD self-parody. This weekend’s anticipated Hellraiser movie is being marketed as a reboot. ![]()
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