🏆 Best in the World EST. Oct. 25th, 2001 🏆
🩷🩷11/08/2024🩷🩷
Easily my second favorite Alien movie behind the original, brings the horror back and leans heavily into Facehugger horror which I really enjoy. Facehuggers to me have always been the scariest creatures in the Alien mythos, even more than the Xenomorphs themselves to me. But when the Xenomorph actually does show up it’s amazing and easily feels like the more intimidating versions of them from Ridley Scott’s original 1979 classic, rather than the Grunt feel they took on in Aliens and some of the sequels.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
In my personal opinion, the third best Hellraiser movie behind the 1987 Original and it’s direct sequel, Hellbound.
In the end however, there’s more or less a contest to be the nicest guy in federal prison because every Hellraiser movie past Hellbound is awful cinema quite frankly. Admittedly, some enjoyment can be found in the later sequels—Hellworld especially—due to them entering the fabled “so bad it’s good” territory where the campiness and awfulness just takes it from bad horror movie…
An abomination.
My friend (Who shall remain nameless because I intend to inflict future harm upon him and do not want my transgressions against him to be documented in a public forum to be used against me as potential evidence) forced me to watch this movie under a litany of threats and promises to watch other films I was interested in, not once but TWICE I’ve had to watch this movie in the span of a year because of him…