Hellraiser( 2022) is not kino

They got me, I watched it. What I saw was group of young people, that you can relate to, being chased by scary monsters that pick them off one at a time. A couple of the young people end up surviving. There's also a third act reveal that covers for the lazy butt "and then this improbable thing happened" writing of the first two acts. The core psychological themes of the original Hellraiser( desire summoning demons, the combination of pleasure and pain into peak experiences) are, at best, hinted at. Now there's lore, lots of lore( THE SIX CONFIGURATIONS OF THE BOX REVEALED! ), but none of the opportunities to make an actual Hellraiser movie are picked up despite being created. The protagonist's tendency to turn to drugs when confronted with stress is dropped entirely after it causes them to get high and touch the box, nothing is done with the cenobites restyling from BDSM into gender bendy s( Pinhead still has pins because iconic character), the rich hedonist's curse/reward that inflicts constant, unpredictable low level pain is kinda cool( he's basically impaled with Chinese water torture) but this doesn't actually pay off in any way.

Also, the lead chick is mid so you can't even watch some hot b-word run around and scream. Frick off/10.