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Friday, November 29, 2013
Chaos
I love Jason Statham movies action fun films
Movie Info
Two cops are partnered up and must try to uncover how five bank robbers escaped from a bank during a heist.
In a recent interview, Jason Statham said he played the roles he felt comfortable in, which explains why he is normally seen holding a gun or dishing out steely lines in his gruff voice as cops and hardened criminals. In short, he is always cast as a tough cookie because that is what he is best at portraying. In Chaos he follows this set pattern as the disgraced Detective Quentin Conners, suspended after shooting a hostage held at gunpoint. However, when bank heist mastermind Lorenz (Snipes) calls for Conners to negotiate with during a robbery loaded with hostages, the maverick veteran is re-instated to get the civilians out alive and bring Lorenz to justice.
Although the top line cast of Statham, Snipes and Ryan Phillippe as rookie cop Shane Dekker assigned to look after Conners might suggest a lot of effort has gone into making Chaos a serious bank heist thriller with a smart script, it's really standard fare all the way to the final twists and turns. Lorenz and his goons breezily wander into the target bank, get surrounded by police thanks to a silent alarm and get the opportunity to set off a bomb when Conners leads a siege party up to the doors so they can all escape looking like the innocent bystanders fleeing from their captives. When no money is found missing from the bank's safe, it's up to Conners, Dekker and a pair of buxom female detectives (Waddell and Rollins) to use security footage to track down the villains, discover who Lorenz really is and find out why he was in the bank.
If you enjoy watching a bunch of cops standing around talking about clues, slowly reaching an action point and then breaking down a door into an apartment for a brief shoot out or chase sequence, Chaos is ideal entertainment. There are none of the criss-crossing relationships between those in power seen in The Inside Man or the intrigue into the bad guys seen in The Score – it's a textbook heist thriller with enough gunshot wounds, smashed up cars and glaring between rival males to fill a Sunday afternoon. At least Statham is on typical form as his standard movie character, Phillippe sulks in the background until the final reel forces him to attempt to gain back some credible acting ability. Snipes, meanwhile, manages to inject some humour into Lorenz by the end with a comical hat, wide smile and jovial attitude giving his character a Dick Tracey-esque quality. Although together they are capable of so much more, they do enough to ensure Chaos will live up to modest expectations even when the daft clues bound together by a beginner's guide to the chaos theory is used to fill in all the plot holes.
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Stalker
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Movie Info
A man who went astray in a moment of weakness finds his mistake coming back to haunt him in this thriller. Mack Maddox (C. Thomas Howell) appears to have a happy, ordinary life -- a nice home, a happy marriage, and a loving daughter. But not all has been perfect in Mack's life and he gets a sudden and startling reminder of his checkered past when he's called up for jury duty. Mack will be hearing the trial of Ezra Tyler (Jay Underwood), who stands accused of killing his wife, and as the testimony goes on, Mack remembers that he actually knew Mrs. Tyler -- and had a brief affair with her. Ezra's morbid jealousy led him to murder his wife and Mack beings to wonder if he knows about his wife's infidelity. Soon Mack has become obsessed with Ezra, and when the trial is called off on a technicality, he discovers that Ezra is following his trail. Stalker was also released under the title Fatal Affair. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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The 24th Day
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Tom (Speedman) and Dan's (Marsden) one-night stand turns into an intense power-play between captor and captive.
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ScottM.
Apr 13, 2007
9
Critics were way off base on this one. The acting, especially Scott Speedman, was brilliant and compelling. Anybody who thinks that the revelation of one's HIV-status isn't dramatic, compelling and relevant (as some of these critics suggested) is not only wearing blinders but doesn't have a clue. However, for these critics to ignore the extremely stong performances is just ignorant. Glad to see people writing more valid reviews in the comments. Definitely worth seeing.
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Immortal
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New York City, year 2095. A floating pyramid has emerged in the skies above Manhattan, inhabited by ancient Egyptian Gods. They have cast judgement down upon Horus (a falcon headed god), one of their own. With only seven days to preserve his immortality, he must find a human host body to inhabit, and search for a mate. In the city below, a beautiful young woman, Jill, with blue hair, blue tears and a power even unknown to her, wanders the city in search of her identity aided by a doctor who is fascinated by this mystery of nature. Reality in this world has a whole new meaning as bodies, voices and memories converge with Gods, mutants, mortals and extra terrestrials. Stunning visual effects meld with the poetic surrealism of comic-book creator Enki Bilal's fantastic epic story. A ground-breaking step into the future of film-making.
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Movie Info
The year is 2095 and the ancient Egyptian gods have returned to Earth to cast judgment on the falcon-headed god Horus in this epic fantasy from comic-book creator Enki Bilal. Given only one week by the gods to preserve his immortality, Horus must search New York City and find both a human host whose body he will inhabit and a willing mate to continue his legacy. As the enormous pyramid of the gods looms ominously over Manhattan, a beautiful and mysterious young woman named Jill wanders the streets in search of her true identity. With striking blue hair to match the azure tears that stream down her cheeks, Jill is joined in her search by a doctor determined to help her unlock her true power. In the Immortal world, reality is limited only by imagination, and the futuristic city is inhabited by creatures never conceived in even your wildest dreams
It is New York, one hundred years in the future. A mysterious giant pyramid has materialized out of thin air and floats ominously above the city. Below there have been several mysterious murders - are the two related?
Obviously.
The culprit seem to be Horus, yes, the Horus from ancient Egyptian mythology. It seems that those whacked-out New Age nuts were right after all and that the Egyptian gods are actually all-powerful aliens and they've dropped in for their first visit in several thousand years so that Horus can get his rocks off with a mortal girl . . .
Yup, that's right: it seems that as always all the gods are really interested in is getting it on with some comely mortal maiden. Except in this case the girl in question is a white-skinned blue-haired mutant, and Horus has to possess a guy named Nikopol who has been in suspended animation for the past few decades to make it all happen. Or something like that.
If some of this seems vaguely familiar to you, then maybe you've read the graphic novels by Enki Bilal on which this French sci-fi effort is vaguely based. Bilal is also the director of the film and this was probably a mistake since while the material might have worked on the printed page, on celluloid it has no flow and is difficult to follow.
In fact for a lot of the running time, Immortal is simply incomprehensible. It throws up a myriad of subplots and characters it never comes back to again. Instead of sticking to the main story, we are given some fascinating glimpses of this future world, but these glimpses are never explained and the viewer is simply left to scratch his or her head in bewilderment.
Almost as distracting as the confusing plot is the way the film was made. Immortal, along withSky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, is one of the first movies to have been made using live actors against a backdrop of computer-generated scenery. Like Sin City and Revenge of the Siththere are practically are no physical sets in any real sense of the word.
Immortal however goes one step further by using digitized human actors as well as real life ones. Why they did this is unclear ? maybe they couldn't afford any more actors (but they could afford voice talent, and is computer CPU time really that much cheaper?) - because the ultimate net effect is simply distracting. It's fine when you digitize alien characters like this, but human ones? Why not make the entire movie computer generated like Kaena or Final Fantasy then?
Ultimately Immortal is a failure, but an interesting one. The film's cityscape and hardware (taken directly from Bilal's comics) are gorgeous to look at even when the CGI looks painfully obvious. Sci-fi fans will go gaga over them, and the film is definitely unusual in that doesn't simply want to be an SF action film. But watching it I often thought that I'd care a lot more about what was happening if I actually knew what was going on.
THE DISC: Some previews and two almost identical making of features. The features omit info such why it was decided to blend human and CGI characters in the first place. It also neglects to mention the movie's origins as a set of graphic novels.
WORTH IT? Fans of Bilal's work and architectural fetishists should want to check it out despite the film's narrative weaknesses.
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ReD Werewolf Hunter
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The modern-day descendant of Little Red Riding Hood brings her fiancé home to meet her family and reveal their occupation as werewolf hunters, but after he is bitten by a werewolf, she must protect him from her own family.
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A broken truce leads to the threat of all out war between werewolves and humans unless a modern-day descendent of Little Red Riding Hood can kill the ravenous wolf leader before the battle begins. Virginia "Red" Sullivan (Felicia Day) and her fiancée are werewolf hunters. But when a lycanthrope attacks Red's fiancée, the full moon puts a damper on their future together. Meanwhile, power-hungry werewolf Gabriel (Stephen McHattie) violates an ancient accord between the hunters and the creatures, and Red sets out to slay him before a new breed of lycanthrope rises to power.
Descendants of the real-life Little Red Riding Hood who inspired the fairy tale have served as werewolf hunters for generations. The first female born every generation is nicknamed "Red" in honor of their ancestor and functions as sort of the "Buffy" of the family. "Buffy" comparisons will also spring to mind when you see these werewolves disintegrate in a fiery burst upon being slain with silver.
This generation's "Red" is Virginia Sullivan (Day), bringing her fiancé, Nathan (Smith), home to meet what he thinks is her law enforcement family, unaware of the true nature of the criminals they bring to justice or that a werewolf is plotting to eliminate their bloodline once and for all.
Not a bad idea for a werewolf flick; unfortunately, Red: Werewolf Hunter gives off the stale vibe of a failed television pilot. The biggest problem is that its title heroine, her romance, and her heroics are the weak points of the film. Virginia's grandmother and gung ho older brother both overshadow "Red" as a character and overpower Felicia Day's dispassionate performance. Day ("The Guild", Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog) may have the red hair required for the role, but she's as flat as can be as this supposed all-important werewolf-hunting heroine, who by the way appeared to do the least amount of werewolf hunting of anyone in her family. Whether it's doing what her birth rite requires or trying to convince her family not to kill her fiancé after he gets bitten by a werewolf, Day gives off the wistful personality of a woman in dire need of mood-altering prescription pep pills.
Her fiancé isn't exactly Mr. Personality either. Not much of a range of emotions from this guy regardless of whether he's professing his love for Virginia, finding out werewolves exist, becoming one himself, or having mind games played on him by the evil werewolf that turned him and wishes to use him as a pawn in his grand scheme to destroy his fiancé and her family.
Red: Werewolf Hunter is a humorless meld of action, horror, and romance; yet, the action scenes are unexciting and clearly hampered by the low budget, compounding the horror factor due to the computer generated werewolves moving with hokey unnatural physics, and worst of all, the central romance at the heart of the drama is non-existent due to the two leads being emotionally catatonic.
The villain is a telepathic werewolf capable of transforming at will named Gabriel out to teach his full moon-optional transformation skills to a new pack of werewolves in order to kill the Sullivan family and stake their claim as the dominant species on the planet. Stephen McHattie is Gabriel although if you squint really hard, you'll swear you're watching Lance Henriksen circa 1998. A cliché bore this villain is, dressing like an old timey vagabond at times, giving tired speeches about how great it feels to be a wolfman, trying so hard to come across as a literate bad guy, I was shocked the script never resorted to having him spout anything Shakespearean.
"Red" makes a major decision at the end of the movie that flies completely in the face of everything she had previously said or done. This inexplicable action might have bothered me more if by then I had still been giving a damn about anything to do with this leaden Syfy original movie.
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Friday, November 22, 2013
Hellraiser 7 deader
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Movie Info
The cenobites are back and they're bringing an army of the dead to create hell on earth on the latest installment of the long-running Hellraiser series. After viewing a mysterious videotape showcasing a shocking act of death and resurrection, undercover reporter Amy Klein (Kari Wuhrer) soon learns of an underground group who possesses the power to restore life to the dead. Soon deeply entangled in the group's malevolent experiments with the afterlife, Amy finds herself caught in a life-or-deathstruggle that threatens to tear her soul apart. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Movie Review: Hellraiser 7: Deader (2005)
Hellraiser 7: Deader
Written by Benjamin Carr & Tim Day
Directed by Rock Bota
Amy Klein...Kari Wuhrer
Charles...Simon Kunz
Pinhead...Doug Bradley
Amy Klein, an American reporter working for the London Underground newspaper is dispatched to Bucharest, Romania to investigate a cult known as the Deaders, who can seemingly return the dead to life. The closer she gets to the story, the deeper she finds herself in the cult's dark and surrealistic world.
This is not a very good movie, which is a shame, really. It's got a heroine that we can get behind--a plucky and tough-as-nails female reporter, something of a modern update to an archetype you used to see in the '40s--and an interesting concept. A cult lead by a descendant of the puzzle box's creator who figures out a way to use the box to his own advantage? Sounds pretty good on paper. On film, though...not so much.
This movie actually ties into the Hellraiser mythos only slightly, and if not for the appearance of the box (which does very little) and Pinhead (who does hardly more), this wouldn't even seem like a Hellraiser film. And there's a good reason for that: it's not. At least, it didn't start out to be.
This was initially scripted as an original feature, but when the studio lost faith in it, they called for a rewrite to shoehorn it into the franchise. It is this forced nature that weakens what could have been a strong film. Perhaps they should have started from scratch, or rewritten a little bit more.
Not only are the franchise elements few and far between, but the plot isn't quite coherent and doesn't go deep enough into the new mythology it tries to craft. A lot more explanation of what the cult was trying to accomplish, and seeing a few examples of this in action would have been appreciated. It's too muddled for any sort of clear picture to emerge.
It isn't unwatchable, and there are a handful of genuinely creepy moments, but it pales in comparison to much of what has come before it. Still, there are more entries to follow, and if the law of diminishing returns holds true, things won't bode well for them at all.
"There's something vaguely demonic about you, Charles."
--J/Metro
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Director: Rick Bota
Starring:
Kari Wuhrer/Amy
Doug Bradley/Pinhead
Paul Rhys/Winters
Georgina Rylance/Marla
Starring:
Kari Wuhrer/Amy
Doug Bradley/Pinhead
Paul Rhys/Winters
Georgina Rylance/Marla
PLOT-CRUNCH
Chain smoking and heart shaped behind reporter Amy (Wuhrer) dives head & shoulders first into exploring a mysterious Cult called The Deaders. She’s put through the hell-bent ringer and meets Pinhead & friends along the way.
THE LOWDOWN
The Hellraiser franchise today is a different mammal than the one I fell in lust with way back when. Where Part 1 to 4 covered an ongoing storyline, Part 5 to now 7 (with 8 on the way) mostly act as stand alones, minor references to past films aside, only the puzzle box and good old Pinboy tie the series together. The question is, does it work?
Well, even though they're not really Hellraiser films anymore (they're more like films that Pinhead happen to be in) the films do come through in some ways! I personally boogied to Hellraiser Inferno, thought Hellraiser Hellseeker was "okay" and now here comes Hellraiser Deader giving it a body-shot! To be fair, this gleaming hook-job, kept me watching throughout. The “Ringu with a Cult” like premise was involving enough, the stylish visuals worked wonders (they fully capitalized on their Romanian locations), the suspense gave me a couple of lickings (loved the hang-girl bit), the nifty “shock” moments kept me on my claw-like toenails (all about that bathroom exercise) while the presence of stellar B-Queen Kari “criminally hot” Wuhrer wrapped it all up in a pretty blood soaked bow. In my book of blood (and flesh cantaloupes) Kari Wuhrer is always a sure bet that my eyeballs will be crazy-glued to the screen. I mean the gal is as gorgeous as the most tempting sin and can act most A List actresses out of the freaking ring. You just can’t go wrong with the dame and Deader was no exception. She carried the film admirably and was the "numero uno" reason as to my investment in all of it.
With that said its no secret that “Deader” was an already existing screenplay that was “tweaked” by the filmmakers to fit within the Hellraiser universe. Sadly it freaking showed. The “Pinhead” moments felt forced and out of place whilst the side Cenobites were lazily tossed our way (why even bother). To make matters more painful, the “Hellraiser” elements actually went on to dilute the main narrative line, taking precious screen time away from it. I was interested in the Deader cult plotline and wanted to delve deeper into it! I was never given the chance since the film was too busy trying to tell two tales at once. Consequence: it never came through fully one way or another. My final peeve had to to with the overplaying of one trick. Picture this: a horror scene builds up around our heroine , the stakes are high, we're reaching the crescendo, the uppercut is coming and then…we cut away to the lead waking up somewhere else. BUGH! The device worked the first two times but after that, it became a cheap and tired ploy. To echo what my last date told me: STOP PULLING OUT!
On the whole Hellraiser Deader was a flawed yet still decent and fairly effortless watch. Thank the heavens for Kari Wuhrer! She always comes through! To me, this one is an ideal “pre-going out to get laid” Friday night flick. A good warm up to something better. Now, play with this box and I don't mean the box!
Well, even though they're not really Hellraiser films anymore (they're more like films that Pinhead happen to be in) the films do come through in some ways! I personally boogied to Hellraiser Inferno, thought Hellraiser Hellseeker was "okay" and now here comes Hellraiser Deader giving it a body-shot! To be fair, this gleaming hook-job, kept me watching throughout. The “Ringu with a Cult” like premise was involving enough, the stylish visuals worked wonders (they fully capitalized on their Romanian locations), the suspense gave me a couple of lickings (loved the hang-girl bit), the nifty “shock” moments kept me on my claw-like toenails (all about that bathroom exercise) while the presence of stellar B-Queen Kari “criminally hot” Wuhrer wrapped it all up in a pretty blood soaked bow. In my book of blood (and flesh cantaloupes) Kari Wuhrer is always a sure bet that my eyeballs will be crazy-glued to the screen. I mean the gal is as gorgeous as the most tempting sin and can act most A List actresses out of the freaking ring. You just can’t go wrong with the dame and Deader was no exception. She carried the film admirably and was the "numero uno" reason as to my investment in all of it.
With that said its no secret that “Deader” was an already existing screenplay that was “tweaked” by the filmmakers to fit within the Hellraiser universe. Sadly it freaking showed. The “Pinhead” moments felt forced and out of place whilst the side Cenobites were lazily tossed our way (why even bother). To make matters more painful, the “Hellraiser” elements actually went on to dilute the main narrative line, taking precious screen time away from it. I was interested in the Deader cult plotline and wanted to delve deeper into it! I was never given the chance since the film was too busy trying to tell two tales at once. Consequence: it never came through fully one way or another. My final peeve had to to with the overplaying of one trick. Picture this: a horror scene builds up around our heroine , the stakes are high, we're reaching the crescendo, the uppercut is coming and then…we cut away to the lead waking up somewhere else. BUGH! The device worked the first two times but after that, it became a cheap and tired ploy. To echo what my last date told me: STOP PULLING OUT!
On the whole Hellraiser Deader was a flawed yet still decent and fairly effortless watch. Thank the heavens for Kari Wuhrer! She always comes through! To me, this one is an ideal “pre-going out to get laid” Friday night flick. A good warm up to something better. Now, play with this box and I don't mean the box!
GORE
We get some stabbings; a gun shot wound to the head, slit wrists, hooks in the face, hook shish-kabobs and a person being ripped to shreds by hooks. Red wet enough for me!
ACTING
Kari Wuhrer (Amy) has often been called a poor man’s Ashley Judd by many (I’ve said it too) but allow me to correct that. She’s the rich man’s Ashley Judd with stronger acting chops, a braver demeanor and a sexier aura. She the real, well rounded thing! Judd is just a poor version of her. WE LOVE YOU KARI! Doug Bradley (Pinhead) did what he was asked to do well. Not much more to say than that. Paul Rhys (Winters) looked like a younger version of Lance Henriksen and nailed the part! I wanted to see more of him! Georgina Rylance (Marla) had a small role but her magnetic presence made it a memorable one. Good job girl!
T & A
It’s a tit party over here! We get ample female ta-tas left and right with Wuhrer (minus implants) being one of the benefactors. We also get some girl on girl action (always fun). The ladies get some shirtless dudes and a quick glimpse of a limp noodle…enjoy gals! NOTE: Damn I love being a man!
DIRECTING
I grooved to Rick Bota’s style! He slapped potent atmosphere (the bluish hues so worked) and some nail biting tension laced moments my way while milking his locations to a “T” and knowing how to execute slow motion for maximum whoopass. Good stuff!
SOUNDTRACK
We get a subtle yet moody and effective score. We’re also served with a techno ditty that worked me well.
BOTTOM LINE
Hellraiser Deader sported an enthralling premise, moved at an even pace, looked morbidly spiffy and tossed in enough jugs & plasma to satisfy. The razor blade framed Ace in its sleeve though was the presence of sultry Kari Wuhrer who jacked the whole to a higher “must keep watching” level. Brilliant piece of casting there! It’s a shame that this party favor never went deep enough within its own story to please, played too many games for its own good and half cocked its Hellraiser ingredients. A solid Hellraiser sequel? Nah. An easy and watchable quick-fix horror flick? Sure! NEXT PLEASE!
BULL'S EYE
The flick was shot in Romania for 2 Million clams.
Screenwriter Neal Marshall Stevens is also the scribe behind the script for the 13 Ghosts screenplay.
- See more at: http://www.joblo.com/horror-movies/reviews/hellraiser-7-deader#sthash.h33ezTLq.dpufScreenwriter Neal Marshall Stevens is also the scribe behind the script for the 13 Ghosts screenplay.
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Hellraiser 6:Hellseeker
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When the puzzle box is solved and the gates of hell are cast open, an old nemesis must prevent the fearsome Cenobites from turning the Earth into a flaming pit of eternal torment in this installment of the long-running Hellraiser series. In his entire demonic history, only Kirsty Cotton (Ashley Lawrence) has ever had the power to defeat the mighty Pinhead (Doug Bradley). Now that the puzzle has been solved again, Pinhead is back, and Kirsty must summon the powers of light to defeat the fury of hell and send her old nemesis screaming into the fire. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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PLOT-CRUNCH
Trevor (Winters) and his cutie wife Kirsty (Laurence), who also happens to be the heroine from the first two Hellraiser films, get in a car accident that leaves the latter RIP. When Trevor wakes up, he finds himself living in a surreal reality where not much makes sense. Oh and Pinhead (Bradley) pops up for some reason; I think he stepped into the wrong movie again. Let’s go to hell…again?
THE LOWDOWN
The “Hellraiser” series as we know it took a new turn for the better and the worst with "Hellraiser: Inferno" and Hellseeker follows in those footsteps. On the upside, this new sequel aims for a more mature, if not overdone mind fuck/film noir type vibe, but on the mucho downside, it doesn’t have much to do with the “Hellraiser” series as we first knew it. Here’s the scoop on the pleasure and the pain which the film brought me. Whip it, whip it good!
Pleasure: Much like Part 5, Hellseeker pulls an “Angel Heart”-light on our asses and plunges its lead character, as well as the audience, into a trippy world of visions, mind-bending reality, confused identity, flashbacks, what not.
I groove on mind-fuck films and although the conventions used in Hellseeker are far from unique, the film is still right up there in terms of total brain rape. This baby doesn’t waste any time in ravaging our senses with its constant leaps from the present, to the past, back to another time in the present, back to another time in the past and so forth. Needless to say that sitting through this picture was much like putting the pieces of a puzzle together, and in the end, I was pleasantly surprised when I found out what the puzzle revealed. Let’s just say that I didn’t expect the narrative to take that route and that the slick cap-off elevated my overall enjoyment of the picture.
On the whole, the film kept me engaged throughout most of its odd happenings, its constant sexual energy (lots of horny chicks in here), its “The Crow” like flashbacks, its good/bad cop on the case subplot, its nods to the first "Hellraiser", itswinks at other horror movies (catch "The Hills Have Eyes" reference?) and its spooky situations. Lastly, although very brief, it was a blast for me to see our gal Kirsty (Laurence) back in action. The sight of her holding that puzzle box and talking shop with Pinhead made me feel so nostalgic. We missed ya, Kirsty! Is that a tear in my eye?
Pain: This flick’s biggest stab in the back is bringing our beloved heroine Kirsty back to the series and totally under-using her. The DVD's director's commentary mentioned that they cut a lot of the scenes that connected this sequel to the rest of the Hellraiser series down, so that they would not alienate the uninitiated viewer. Hey man...how about not alienating the hardcore fans? I mean, we’re the ones who are going to rent this sucker NOT “Mr. Everybody”! How about a little fucking respect for all the cash we put into this series over the years! On a storyline level, the flick doesn’t waste any time in plunging us into a whacked out world but tended to overplay that card. It got a tad redundant at times and tension was rarely felt. It would’ve been nice if the film hit more levels. I also felt that the lead (Winters) was way too “passive” about everything for me to genuinely give a damn about him. Dude, your wife is dead, you have hooks in your face...REACT FOR THE LOVE OF PAIN! When our hero spat out the famous “Angel Heart” line “I know who I am”; I didn’t buy it or feel an ounce of sympathy for him.
To make the lashes more painful, the Cenobites in this sequel are underwhelming to say the least and look more like duders in rubber suits than creatures from hell. NOTE: Chatterer briefly pops up (don’t blink). As for Pinhead, he’s one of the film’s weakest links; he’s just so useless here. Much like in Inferno, he only pops up to talk the occasional mumbo-drivel and slap a morale the hero’s way. I felt embarrassed for our cherished Prince of Pain and it’s obvious to me that this flick could’ve easily done without him or the Hellraiser elements. The hooks, the box and Pinhead are solely there to justify the title and that in itself, is a damn shame. I expect the next installment “Hellraiser Deader” to take the same treacherous highway.
Overall, "Hellraiser: Hellseeker" did provide for some quality entertainment and I dug it as a stand alone. But much like Inferno, who the fuck are they trying to swindle with this? This movie hardly has anything to do with the Hellraiser series and even the brief inclusion of Kirsty can’t fool this fool into thinking that this is a true Hellraiser sequel. Let Pinhead retire already and continue this series under a “supernatural, film noir collection” tag or something. Hook on this!
Pleasure: Much like Part 5, Hellseeker pulls an “Angel Heart”-light on our asses and plunges its lead character, as well as the audience, into a trippy world of visions, mind-bending reality, confused identity, flashbacks, what not.
I groove on mind-fuck films and although the conventions used in Hellseeker are far from unique, the film is still right up there in terms of total brain rape. This baby doesn’t waste any time in ravaging our senses with its constant leaps from the present, to the past, back to another time in the present, back to another time in the past and so forth. Needless to say that sitting through this picture was much like putting the pieces of a puzzle together, and in the end, I was pleasantly surprised when I found out what the puzzle revealed. Let’s just say that I didn’t expect the narrative to take that route and that the slick cap-off elevated my overall enjoyment of the picture.
On the whole, the film kept me engaged throughout most of its odd happenings, its constant sexual energy (lots of horny chicks in here), its “The Crow” like flashbacks, its good/bad cop on the case subplot, its nods to the first "Hellraiser", its
Pain: This flick’s biggest stab in the back is bringing our beloved heroine Kirsty back to the series and totally under-using her. The DVD's director's commentary mentioned that they cut a lot of the scenes that connected this sequel to the rest of the Hellraiser series down, so that they would not alienate the uninitiated viewer. Hey man...how about not alienating the hardcore fans? I mean, we’re the ones who are going to rent this sucker NOT “Mr. Everybody”! How about a little fucking respect for all the cash we put into this series over the years! On a storyline level, the flick doesn’t waste any time in plunging us into a whacked out world but tended to overplay that card. It got a tad redundant at times and tension was rarely felt. It would’ve been nice if the film hit more levels. I also felt that the lead (Winters) was way too “passive” about everything for me to genuinely give a damn about him. Dude, your wife is dead, you have hooks in your face...REACT FOR THE LOVE OF PAIN! When our hero spat out the famous “Angel Heart” line “I know who I am”; I didn’t buy it or feel an ounce of sympathy for him.
To make the lashes more painful, the Cenobites in this sequel are underwhelming to say the least and look more like duders in rubber suits than creatures from hell. NOTE: Chatterer briefly pops up (don’t blink). As for Pinhead, he’s one of the film’s weakest links; he’s just so useless here. Much like in Inferno, he only pops up to talk the occasional mumbo-drivel and slap a morale the hero’s way. I felt embarrassed for our cherished Prince of Pain and it’s obvious to me that this flick could’ve easily done without him or the Hellraiser elements. The hooks, the box and Pinhead are solely there to justify the title and that in itself, is a damn shame. I expect the next installment “Hellraiser Deader” to take the same treacherous highway.
Overall, "Hellraiser: Hellseeker" did provide for some quality entertainment and I dug it as a stand alone. But much like Inferno, who the fuck are they trying to swindle with this? This movie hardly has anything to do with the Hellraiser series and even the brief inclusion of Kirsty can’t fool this fool into thinking that this is a true Hellraiser sequel. Let Pinhead retire already and continue this series under a “supernatural, film noir collection” tag or something. Hook on this!
GORE
We get some red wet gifts: a nasty brain surgery, a CGI heel, a needle in the throat, ice pick in the head, a head popping out of another head (you heard me), bullet in the head, hook action and more.
ACTING
Dean Winters (Trevor) does ok with the material that he’s given, but I found him to be a bland and unexpressive lead. He gives under-acting a new meaning. Ashley Laurence (Kirsty) shines in the limited time she’s given, it was great to see the dame kicking it again. Doug Bradley (Pinhead) walks through this one; I think he also knew that Pinhead doesn’t have much to do with this sequel. Sarah Jane Redmond (Gwen) does the S&M jive very well and has a belly I’d love to lick 24/7. William S. Taylor (Det. Lange) charmed me with his unique behavior; there was something about the guy that just made me want to watch him go. Good job!
T & A
We get lots of broads in their undergarments and two tit shots. The ladies get Dean Winters in a tank top. Nothing to call the boyz over.
DIRECTING
The “Seven”-esque look kicks in again with the colors being washed out and the tone being all grim. It still works although it’s starting to get a little tired. Bota handles his directorial duties well by slapping in potent slow motion, giving the images an effective bluish tint, using the occasional blurry cam and delivering stylish camera angles. Competent.
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