Patrick and I love to watch horror movies. Lately we have watched lots of them. We’ve watched a few newer movies, but mostly we’ve dusted off the old teen slasher flicks and viewed them as marathons.

First off we sat through Hellraisers 1-8. Honestly I have never watched a Hellraiser movie until now, and I’m not sure I can really get into them. In all horror movies there is a basic formula as to what makes you a potential victim, with Hellraiser I think they tried to get a bit too creative.

The Hellraiser plot is basically… you solve the puzzle, open the box, and Pinhead comes for you and inflicts upon you unimaginable pain. How hard is it for writers to understand this? Well folks it must be pretty hard because in one of the movies I think Pinhead showed up once and that appearance seemed to be more of an after thought. As in ‘oh yeah, we are making a pinhead movie maybe we should insert bad guy here and hope he appearance doesn’t screw up our movie’.

What the hell kind of thinking is behind the concept of ‘lets bring bad guy into the future and put him in space’ all about? Futuristic Sci-Fi/Horror only works if the bad guy(s) are aliens and sucks as bad as prequels. Instead of into the future, prequels send you into the past to set up a story that has already been playing out for insert # of sequels here . They try to explain why the demented resurrected psycho is a mindless slasher. Prequels really piss me off.

With a prequel they manage to screw up their own story line. Imagine you have sat through ‘horror movie 1-5 and then some jackass who obviously has never seen this particular horror movie decides to make a prequel. While watching this crap your only thought is “I hope the idiot who wrote this was the first victim of this movie”. Your next thought is “what a waste of downloads”. Aren’t you glad you didn’t spend money on that load of crap? lol

In the end Hellraiser had a lot of potential to be a great slasher flick. Unfortunately it missed the plot.

1 Comment to “Experiencing Hell”

1. Patrick — April 21, 2008 @ 1:33 pm
   

   I love the pin! However, I do agree those movies need more pinny shit and less story. It’s like watching a porno flick with 90 minutes of story and 5 minutes of sex.

   Pointless.