Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
It truly did not work for me, but I'm certainly not going to call it bad. It's extremely creative and a work of genuinely interesting low budget ingenuity. I feel it'll strike everyone differently much like Skinamarink or We're All Going To The World's Fair, two movies I really like. Unfortunately, I simply wasn't one of the people this movie was for.
Jamie Clayton is full-on incredible as Pinhead and the cenobites are all very menacing and wonderfully grotesque, but most other elements don't quite land for me.
Turning the puzzle box into a game of tag, and how much of the film's first act is just the protagonist accidentally sending random ppl to hell, did come off a bit comedic to me and I'm not sure it's intentional.
Also it's thematically simplified to the point of feeling puritanical. From, "angels to…