Hellraiser
I liked a lot of this. The opening 30 mins or so are pretty solid and the final moments are great. It has a lot of strengths, chief among them are a visual style that feels a bit prestige TV, but also somewhere in-between the de-saturated blandness of current Serious Horror films and something that feels more standard from a decade ago. But it doesn't really have any sense of pacing, rhythm, or of revelations. The Cenobites are just kind of there, no build up. 823
They shuffle around like mummies (this definitely suffers from Mummy Movie Syndrome) and once this thing gets going it gets bogged down in a haunted house set up and a <PERSON>-lite lore adventure that made it feel like prestige Scooby Doo. Most of the kills require a long walk to get to and are not very interesting. I don't think it's a sin to not make this sexy or about the anxieties of bodily and sexual exploration, but without that element it feels really flat. It's maybe about addiction? but not in any interesting ways. I didn't hate it but I probably won't think about it much after posting this. 645