I was going to write a review but then I saw the Letterboxd synopsis and couldn’t put it better:
“A woman who lives in deer-hunting country in rural Wisconsin is possessed by the spirit of a Japanese samurai warrior.“
You know you want to watch that.
This turned out to be Wajda’s final film which I think is very fitting. From the aesthetic to the subject matter it’s a return to form. Bogusław Linda turns out the best performance of any actor in any film in the world in 2016 that I saw. Excellent film and a return to form for Polish cinema.
Call me crazy but I like this one nearly as much as the original.
Hellraiser movies have this habit of falling into the popular patterns of film at the time, they represent the essence of a certain kind of movie. This is the first Hellraiser of the second millennium and it falls squarely within that gritty, sleazy atmosphere that was popular around the turn of the century with movies like Seven, The Bone Collector, 8mm, End of Days, etc. etc.…
William Forsythe spends the entire movie smoking rock and killing random innocent people
