a review of 养鬼吃人10:审判

TheQuietGamer
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养鬼吃人10:审判 - 评论

Darn you, Gary Tunnicliffe. You were supposed to be different...  I will say this, Judgement is certainly interesting. Unfortunately, it's guilty of the same sins as the edited spec script sequels. After appreciating how very Hellraiser the story he wrote for Revelations was (even if I didn't appreciate the overall movie as a whole much), watching his decent short fan film No More Souls, hearing his own proclaimed disappointment with the previous follow-ups to the original, and all the talk that this was supposedly the first entry in years to be written from the ground up to be a true successor I can only walk away disappointed with what the property's longtime makeup artist has brought us here. Rather than delivering the worthy, faithful to Barker's vision installment we were promised, Tunnicliffe instead once again relegates Pinhead and the Cenobites appearance to basically the last 15 or so minutes in order to do his own unique thing while using the franchise's name to drum up a modicum of interest in the project that otherwise wouldn't be there. Following an incredibly intriguing opening that sees Pinhead discussing the need to devise a new method of attracting victims in this era of technology where any perversion is merely a click away which goes absolutely nowhere, we see Tunnicliffe's plan to introduce and explore a new faction of hell clearly intended to take the place of the Cenobites. Only he doesn't stick with that long either before the whole thing just turns into another generic Se7en rip-off. It feels like two entirely different stories are going on that eventually get mashed together for a conclusion sporting the theme that the forces of Heaven are the real bad guys in a manner that comes off as being cooked up by a bunch of clowns who lurk around r/atheism. And for what? Some tasteless gross-out horror? I'll admit this is remarkably well-made and executed on such a low budget, allowing it to be surprisingly watchable. Especially when compared to a good portion of its predecessors. I might have been more forgiving of it didn't make me gag and I wasn't sure we were blatantly misled as to what it would be. Yeah everyone, Tunnicliffe played us like a cheap fiddle.