“Like a bad horror movie, isn't it?” I watched this to see a young Henry Cavill, but that wasn’t worth it. This has over 92 product placements, which I could not believe. However, that’s the least of its problems. It's also Doug Bradley's last time playing Pinhead (as for now), and he appears briefly in some scenes to say a line and then disappears. He might as well say lines like “snitches get stitches”, and it wouldn’t feel out of place. So yeah, not a grand finale for him. The film has an exciting idea for a Hellraiser type of story, but towards the end, it completely abandons it. The only entertaining thing I got from this film was reading the trivia behind the scenes. Apparently, during the wrap party, they made Lance Henriksen a Pinhead size pinata, but Henriksen is allergic to chocolate, so he had to get rid of it. I don’t know why I found that funny.

Ezekiel... Is that you? haha funny to see him that young! I didn't think this movie was that bad, I kinda enjoyed it.

On a technical level it's ok but it's not a Hellraiser film. Hostel with pinhead.

Given the name, the blurb, the font used in the intro and pretty much all of the previous entries except the first one, I went into this with very low expectations. I was expecting some variation of "woah someone solved the cube in the game and now there are digital and badly 3d-modelled cenobites" or possibly "we all get sucked into the game". This movie has no business being a decently written, acted and directed slasher film that's secretly a [spoiler]Scooby-Doo movie where it's an old man pretend-ghosting all along[/spoiler]. I was very pleasantly surprised. I also had no idea Cavill was in this and his name isn't very prominently featured in the intro sequence so I completely missed it. So I just though they'd gotten someone who was good-looking in vaguely the same way. Like "wow, that guy looks like a young Henry Cavill". I paused the movie halfway through to look it up and sure enough, there was a good reason for that… Anyways, was this the best movie that ever movied? Absolutely not. Was it better than most Hellraiser films? Yes, absolutely. Did it do something at least a little fresh and interesting, after something like 6 or 7 movies where Pinhead is reduced to a boring standard "demon who likes pain" instead of "maybe an angel or a demon depending on how you look at it, exploring the limits of the experiences of the flesh"? Yes.

Not good, but kinda fun. Probably won't watch it again, but it was better than the previous two.