Hellraiser IV - Bloodline details
| Format: | 18 DVD |
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| Starring: | Doug Bradley, Valentina Vargas, Adam Scott, Bruce Ramsay, Charlotte Chatton |
| Directors: | Alan Smithee, Kevin Yagher |
| Genre: | Horror - General |
| Studio: | ANCHOR BAY HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Collection: | Blockbuster Franchises, Heaven and Hell, Hell Riders, Number 2s, The Ultimate Halloween Collection, Top Streaming Films on your PS3 this Christmas, Weird and Wonderful, What the?! |
| Name | Discs | |
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Hellraiser IV - Bloodline |
18 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 21 minutes |
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| Rental release: | Currently unavailable |
| Main languages: | English |
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Not as poor as its reputation
By Lawrence Conquest from bristol , 10 Jan 2005[Highly rated reviewer]
Hellraiser 4 has an awful reputation, with the beind the scenes turmoil during the making of the movie leading to it being issued as directed by 'Alan Smithee' (the non de plume directors invoke when they fel their work has been destroyed by a studio), but despite this the film remains a watchable sequel. After the first 2 heavily linked Hellraiser films, Hellraiser 3 really turned the series into a typical Hollywood teenage slasher franchise, but if nothing else at least Hellraiser 4 is ambitious, as it tells the tale of the Le Marchant family through the years in 3 interlinked short stories. The first tale, which explores the whole beginning of the Hellraiser mythology with the creation of the puzzle box and the summoning of the first demon is intruiging, the film then fast forwards to the present day to pick up the threads of Hellraiser 3 by exploring a building infected by the box, then finally we go to a future space station where Pinhead is destroyed once and for all. Flawed and uneven yes, but ambitious and interesting to anyone who's enjoyed the first 3 movies.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(39)floggin the horse what a shame
By cheesekake (1282 reviews) from uk , 30 Apr 2012i'm a fan of pinhead, but unfortunately they are just milking whatever they can outa the sicko dude.
its an ok film but they really should have left pinhead go to hell and stay there after the 3rd one- Was this review helpful to you?
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hellraiser 4
By LeeBelfast (1 review) from fuckertown , 20 Nov 2011So so horror sequel. Pinhead and his pals return to harvest souls this time in Outer space and 18th century France(Bet you never thought you would hear that.Ever).
Watchable but daft and nowhere as good as the previous 3 installments- Was this review helpful to you?
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AVOID AVOID AVOID
By a customer , 03 Sep 2011I love the first Hellraiser film, quite liked the second, tolerated the third - but this one is quite simply terrible. The acting is beyond wooden, the effects miserable, the plot is a disaster and it isn't even remotely scary!
Save yourself the time and don't waste an hour and a half of your life on this like I did. AVOID AVOID AVOID.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Incoherent, cheap and silly
By DeathOfNarrativeCinema (156 reviews) from Wallingford , 30 Apr 2011One reviewer says that Hellraiser 4 - Bloodline is not as bad as it's made out to be.
It is.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Hell Is More Ordered Since Your Time Princess And Much Less Amusing
By Richie77777 (250 reviews) from Essex , 22 Apr 2011'He who summons the magic commands the magic.'
The fourth installment isn't as good as the first and second parts, (I haven't yet seen part three!), but its still really enjoyable. Naturally Pinhead is lurking and he has an evil, (teeth a chattering) dog by his side. - What's happened to the Senabites from the first and second films? They were well and truly scary and well acted! As ever the acting from Pinhead is fantastic and the acting from the main character, (in this case John), not so convincing.
The film initially takes places in space and then flashes back to the 18th Century where the box, (that makes the film!) was first developed. It runs down a family line and there are some wild, (and disturbing) sex scenes with a siren called Angelic. A quote is coined : 'You like it rough dont you?!' - Does this rival the 'Come To Daddy,' quote, (film one) and 'Come To Mummy,' (film two)? - No it doesn't but it is the quote of the film!
Angelic goes after John Merchant in his dreams, (for what can only be described as anything but a nightmare!)
Angelic to John : 'John Merchant you know me from dreams we have a destiny together - great work to do.'
As ever the themes run through this horror franchise. Angelic seduces a larger than average, bald guy and takes him down the basement where he endures the chains! A new touch is nails on the finger tips of Pinhead and two dumb security guards are grumesomely killed and come back as a very odd looking senabite with both their heads combined! They murder a poor person by somehow combining their head around him!
The theme of pain : Pinhead :
'Pain how dare you use that word! - What you think of as pain is a shadow. - Pain has a face. Allow me to show it to you gentleman. - I am pain.'
Naturally all horror films have pain as the overrunning theme but this series and that of Saw explicately state it, ('I want you to a play a game!')
Therefore Pinhead states what suffering is greatest for a parent.
Pinhead to John's wife :
'Oh you suffer beautifully but im here for business not pleasure!'
Finally another quote is :
John : 'For God's Sake!
Pinhead : 'Do I look like someone that cares what God thinks?!'
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