FRANCHISE ME: HELLRAISER: HELLWORLD

Is this really pulling a New Nightmare or half-assing it?  The kids know all about Hellraiser -- oh, excuse me, Hellworld -- and they have Chatterer masks and recordings of all of Pinhead's iconic lines on the computer.  But then everybody talks about LeMerchand like he's a real human being.

Six years later and I still don't have a clue. (EDIT: Typed this literally twelve seconds before hitting that point of the review; at least I'm not the only confused one!)  Though as little as it matters, I don't think the Cenobites are ever 'real'; I think the kids are still trapped in the box at the end, and Lance Henriksen is still fucking with their heads.

It's a lousy film, but this gave me a pretty big laugh:

Black stereotype finds room full of dead phoetuses (phoeti?).

"Awwww yeah! That's what I'm talking about!"

For someone so obsessed with a game full of horror he sure was enjoying life.

I'm glad I've never seen this movie. Pinhead stalking and slashing people (with an axe!) is such a complete misunderstanding of the character, even if the movie is cheating and it's not really the character.

This isn't, however, new to the series. Pinhead's all out mayhem in the third movie was acceptable because it was on a massive scale, but in Bloodline there's a scene where he slowly stalks down a hallway and corners and kills a guard. Pinhead should never be an overly mobile character. He's more of a presence, and his evil should be through his influence.