Hellraiser
I love Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II respectively, so it's only natural for me to be excited about the 2022 reboot. I finally got the time to watch the reboot and my first impression was, did Disney made this?? (short of). This reboot doesn't feel like Hellraiser that I know of, it was tame and criminally boring. It was just two hours of weak and forgettable characters bloating and dragging the movie until cenobites showed up, even when they were on screen they didn't command manacing or intimitading feeling like they did in 1987 movie.
I would say the practical effect is pretty good, the cenobites looks different but still have a familiar appearance about them. The best thing about the movie is whenever the cenobites are on screen, like I said before they were not as intimidating as the original cenobites but they are still horrific and managed to gives creepy vibes. To be fair in the 1987 movie, the cenobites are rarely showed too, but whenever they were not on screen, there's always something happening, for example how we could explored how twisted <PERSON> and <PERSON> are. 292
The cenobites in this reboot were not as quotable tho, their lines felt hollow and even cringe at times. For example the line "save your breath for screaming" doesn't have the same eeriness as "No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering". The characters are the worst part about the movie, their dialog are garbage, the acting is pretty bad, and not compelling at all. It took me an hour until something interesting is happening.
I know Hellraiser as a franchise has a bad reputation regarding their later movies, but the first two movies are some of my favourite horror movies ever. There's no other movies like Hellraiser and that's what made them stand out within the horror genre in my opinion. This reboot was such a disappoinment, but I will give it another chance because rewatch matters. 292