Hellraiser: Revelations

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Hellraiser - Revelations

Credits
Title:	Hellraiser - Revelations
Director:	Victor Garcia
Writers:	Gary J. Tunnicliffe
Producers:	Victor Garcia; Aaron Ockman; Joel Soisson
Composer:	Frederik Wiedmann
Cinematography:	David A. Armstrong
Editors:	Matthew Rundell
Production
Production company:	Dimension Films Neo Art & Logic
Released:	October 18th, 2011
Rating:	R
Running time:	75 min.
Country:	USA
Language:	English
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Hellraiser: Revelations is an American feature film of the demonic/supernatural thriller genre. It is the ninth installment in the Hellraiser film series, and the fifth film in the series to not be released theatrically. It was directed by Victor Garcia with a story and screenplay by Gary J. Tunnicliffe. It was produced by Dimension Films and Neo Art & Logic and premiered in the United States on March 18th, 2011.

Synopsis[]

Friends Nico Bradley and Steven Craven run away from home where they travel to Mexico to film themselves engaging in several days' worth of partying before disappearing. The Mexican authorities return their belongings to their parents, including a video recording made by Steven that documents their final moments and an ornate puzzle box.

A year later, the families of the two missing boys gather together for dinner. Tensions rise when Emma, Steven's sister and Nico's girlfriend, expresses frustration with their lack of closure. She demands that her mother reveal the contents of Steven's videotape, which she has been obsessively watching in private. Later, Emma has a look at the tape, which documents Steven and Nico picking up a girl in a bar. A flashback reveals that Nico murdered the girl while having sex in the bar's restroom, and later threatened to implicate Steven in the killing to force him to continue their "vacation" together. Nico later receives the puzzle box from a vagrant, who offers it to Nico as a way to experience a new kind of sensual experience.

Sifting through Steven's effects, Emma finds the puzzle box that she recognizes from the video. When she attempts to manipulate it, Steven suddenly reappears covered in blood. The families try to rush Steven to the hospital but discover they've become stranded, and Steven warns that the "Cenobites" are coming. Emma plays with the puzzle box again, causing intense sexual arousal. Emma attempts to seduce Nico's father, and then has a deeply intimate conversation with Steven in his room, but as Steven caresses her breast Emma has a vision of chains and mutilated bodies. Soon after, Nico's father is killed by the same vagrant. Steven then goes downstairs, retrieves a shotgun, and shoots his father before holding the rest of the household at gunpoint.

Another flashback reveals that Nico solved the puzzle box, opening a portal to the realm of the Cenobites: extra-dimensional sadomasochists led by Pinhead. Steven flees, but Nico is taken to the Cenobites' realm to be subjected to extreme torture and mutilation. Later, while having rough sex with a prostitute, Nico is able to communicate with Steven through the puzzle box and convinces him to kill the prostitute to allow him to escape from hell, emerging skinless and emaciated. Steven later kills several more prostitutes so their blood can be used to regenerate Nico, but he is unable to regrow his skin. When Steven finally balks at helping him, Nico kills Steven and takes his skin. Dying, Steven uses the puzzle box to contact the Cenobites and become one of them to get revenge.

The "Steven" holding the families hostage is revealed to really be Nico wearing Steven's skin, who taunts the families. He reveals that one of the reasons why he and Steven ran away from home was because they were both angry that Steven's father and Nico's mother were secretly having an adulterous affair with each other. He demands that Emma solve the puzzle box for him, intending for the Cenobites to take her in his place, thus assuring his freedom. Emma opens the portal and summons the Cenobites—including Steven— who kill Nico's mother for speaking out of turn. Nico attempts to barter his life for Emma's, and while Pinhead notes that Emma has a dark sexual desire that he admires, he refuses and chooses to reclaim Nico for further experiments.

As Nico is taken away, Emma's father shoots and kills him in a dying act of revenge. Displeased at having lost a victim, the Cenobites take Emma's mother as a replacement for Nico. Her father apologizes, then dies in Emma's arms. Left alone, Emma reaches for the puzzle box.

Cast[]

Actor	Role
Jolene Andersen	Female Cenobite
Steven Brand	Ross Craven
Daniel Buran	Vagrant
Camelia Dee	Street walker
Nick Eversman	Steven Craven
Tracey Fairaway	Emma Craven
Jay Gillespie	Nico/Pseudo
Sue Ann Pien	Hooker/Skinned face girl #1
Sebastien Roberts	Peter Bradley
Adel Marie Ruiz	Mexican girl
Stephan Smith Collins	Pinhead
Devon Sorvari	Sarah Craven
Fred Tatasciore	Pinhead (voice)
Sanny van Heteren	Kate Bradley

Notes & Trivia[]

The Hellraiser franchise, and all related concepts, were created by author, film director and screenwriter Clive Barker. The concepts of the Cenobites & the Lemarchand puzzle box first appeared in the 1986 novella, The Hellbound Heart, published by HarperCollins.
The tagline to this film is "The Return of Pinhead".
There are a total of fourteen credited cast members in this film.
Principal shooting on Hellraiser: Revelations began on September 3rd, 2010. Production wrapped in October. The movie was shot on-location in Los Angeles, California. The entire film was shot in eleven days.
Actor Doug Bradley was approached to play Pinhead, but turned the script down due to the rushed production schedule and the fact that Dimension was going with a first draft script only. There was also the matter of Bradley's pay scale being drastically reduced to what he described as "the price of a fridge". This marks the first film in the series where Pinhead is played by another actor.
Actor Dan Buran is credited as Daniel Buran in this film.
Hellraiser: Revelations was rushed into production by Dimension Films because the license on the Hellraiser property was about to lapse as they had not produced a product since 2005's Hellraiser: Hellworld.
This is the first installment in the series since Hellraiser: Bloodline that was intentionally written as a Hellraiser film. Installments 5-8 were all spec scripts collecting dust in a drawer at Dimension Films until some studio exec said "Hey, lets slaps a "Hellraiser" logo on it and shoe-horn Pinhead into this thing and call it a day!"
Hellraiser: Revelations had a one-day theatrical release on March 18th, 2011 in Culver City, California. It was then released direct-to-video on October 18th, 2011.
Franchise creator Clive Barker was very vocal about his opinions on this film. An ad copy for the DVD and Blu-ray releases hailed the film as coming "from the mind of Clive Barker". In response, Barker, who has had no official involvement with the series following Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996), posted a profanity-laden message to his Twitter feed: "Hello,my friends. I want to put on record that the flic [sic] out there using the word Hellraiser IS NO FUCKIN' CHILD OF MINE! I have NOTHING to do with the fuckin' thing. If they claim it's from the mind of Clive Barker,it's a lie. It's not even from my butt-hole."
The Craven family as presented in this film are named for famed horror director Wes Craven best known for helming the A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream franchises.
The Bradley family as presented in this film are named after actor Doug Bradley, best known for playing the Lead Cenobite in the first eight Hellraiser film. Ironically, Doug Bradley is not involved with this film.
Actress Sanny van Heteren, who plays Kate Bradley, is only two years older than Jay Gillespie, who plays her adult son Nico Bradley in the film. Kate was born in 1977 and Jay was born in 1979.
In addition to Pinhead and Pseudo-Nico, the only other Cenobite presented in this film is a female version of Chatterer. In the credits, the character is defined only as Female Cenobite, but this should not be confused with the Female Cenobite from the original Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II.
Whenever Nico Bradley says "Tijuana", he always stresses the second syllable, pronouncing it as "Tee-HUH-wah-nah".
Nico Bradley expresses several racially charged sentiments against Mexican culture in this film, including claims of government & police corruption, a perceived legal bias against Non-Mexicans, or "gringos", and at one point says "Life is cheap here".

Ratings[]

On the Internet Movie Database, Hellraiser: Revelations has a Starmeter rating of 2.7 out of 10, based on more than 9.1 thousand user votes.
Hellraiser: Revelations does not have a Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes. It has five posted reviews from Tim Brayton of Alternate Ending, Mike Massie from Gone With the Twins, Felix Vasquez, Jr. from Cinema Crazed, Josh Bell from Filmcritic.com and Scott Weinberg from FEARnet, all of whom gave the film negative reviews. The movie has an audience score of 6% based on more than 500 verified user ratings, averaging 1.4 out of 5.
On Metacritic, Hellraiser: Revelations has a Metascore of 0.8 out of 100 based on 32 user ratings. It has 1 positive review, 29 negative reviews and 2 mixed reviews. The negative reviews make up 91% of the overall rating.
On Letterboxd, Hellraiser: Revelations has a weighted average score of 1.33 out of 5 based on 9,654 user votes.
On TMDB, Hellraiser: Revelations has a user score of 35% out of 100.

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