They have no idea what it is, only that it’s the property of some wealthy guy and is probably worth a lot of money. Until Riley (Odessa A’zion) and her friend Trevor (Drew Starkey) decide to steal it. Voight has disappeared, his mansion has been closed off, and the puzzle box has been locked in a vault in an unassuming industrial area. I’m sure you can probably guess what happens then.įast forward a few years. The box begins to shift and change and then suddenly, a jagged piece erupts from within the metal framework and cuts our naive friend. He encourages his young guest to continue trying to solve the puzzle. Voight (Goran Visnjic) is both seductive and inviting. It is at this point that our host emerges. A certain guest at the party finds himself wandering around the estate and winds up in one of the large galleries, examining a piece of art-a very curious puzzle box. The film opens with a very wealthy man throwing a very swanky and sexy party. They return to identify the essence of the series and build a brand-new story around those elements. In this new film, Bruckner and writers Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski go back to the basics. Thanks to David Bruckner, that wish has become a really fun reality full of blood, interdimensional monsters, puzzles, and pain and pleasure combined. It’s just acknowledging the fact that this series has been a niche corner of horror for a long time, and it’s finally time that someone put together a brand-new film for a modern audience and for it to get some much-deserved attention again. That’s not a knock against the movies themselves or the filmmakers who created the various chapters in this ongoing saga. While it is one of the most long-lasting franchises in modern horror, most fans tend to land on there being two quality films and a handful of others that either have some odd charms or are just flat-out bad. It’s time someone gave the Hellraiser series a proper relaunch.

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