Hellraiser (2022)

"A toothlessly retrograde enterprise."

"Fans will be relieved to know that this Hellraiser definitely doesn’t skimp on the gore..."

"The new Hellraiser works as metaphor, as flesh-annihilating spectacle. Yet it doesn’t quite work as a story."

"As sadistic as it is silly."

"A reinvigorated reboot that gets the blood pumping..."

"It’s just bland. Forgettable. And in the world of horror films, isn’t that worse than being bad?"

"More hazy dream than vivid nightmare."

"A grim and grisly feast for the senses..."

"(A'zion) is just wonderful."

"Makes the classic reboot mistake of adding too much story to what should have been a more concentrated reimagining..."

"(Hellraiser) evokes Barker’s original adaptation in the same way a good cover song recalls its source material: with love, intelligence, and an inevitably crushing sort of redundancy."

"A credibly creepy retelling in an over-inflated package that would benefit from a few targeted pinpricks."

"Hellraiser works mainly because of A’zion, who gives her scattered character a deeply human desperation."

"It’s perfectly entertaining... but it’s a pale vanilla shadow of the original."

"We’re ready to sign up for whatever other sights Bruckner has to show us next."

"No less rich, terrifying, or gorily violent than the hellbound story that started it all..."