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Hellraiser: Revelations
Hellraiser IX Revelations

Directed by

Victor Garcia

Produced by

Aaron Ockman
Joel Soisson

Written by

Gary J. Tunnicliffe

Distributed by

Dimension Extreme

Release date

March 18, 2011

Running time

75 minutes

Preceded by

Hellraiser: Hellworld

Succeeded by

Hellraiser: Judgment

Hellraiser: Revelations is a 2011 horror film written by Gary Tunnicliffe and directed by Victor García, the film stars Stephan Smith Collins and Steven Brand. It is the ninth installment in the Hellraiser franchise.

Plot[]

Steven Craven and Nico Bradley run away from home and travel to Mexico where they film themselves engaging in several days' worth of drunken partying before disappearing. The Mexican authorities return their belongings to their parents, including a video recording made by Steven that documents their final moments and an ornate puzzle box.

A year later, the families of the two missing boys gather for dinner. Tensions rise when Emma, Steven's sister and Nico's girlfriend, expresses frustration with their lack of closure. She demands that her mother reveal the contents of Steven's videotape, which she has been obsessively watching in private. Later, Emma sneaks a look at the tape, which documents Steven and Nico picking up a girl in a bar. A flashback reveals that Nico murdered the girl while having sex in the bar's restroom, and later threatened to implicate Steven in the killing to force him to continue their "vacation" together. Nico later receives the puzzle box from a vagrant, who offers it to Nico as a way to experience a new kind of sensual experience.

Sifting through Steven's effects, Emma finds the puzzle box that she recognizes from the video. When she attempts to manipulate it, Steven suddenly reappears covered in blood. The families try to rush Steven to the hospital but discover they've become stranded, and Steven warns that the "Cenobites" are coming. Emma plays with the puzzle box again, causing intense sexual arousal. Emma attempts to seduce Nico's father, and then has a deeply intimate conversation with Steven in his room, but as Steven caresses her breast Emma has a vision of chains and mutilated bodies. Soon after Nico's father is killed by the same vagrant. Steven then goes downstairs, retrieves a shotgun, and shoots his father before holding the rest of the household at gunpoint.

Another flashback reveals that Nico solved the puzzle box, opening a portal to the realm of the Cenobites: extra-dimensional sadomasochists led by Pinhead. Steven flees, but Nico is taken to the Cenobites' realm to be subjected to extreme torture and mutilation. Later, while having rough sex with a prostitute, Nico is able to communicate with Steven through the puzzle box and convinces him to kill the prostitute to allow him to escape from hell, emerging skinless and emaciated. Steven later kills several more prostitutes so their blood can be used regenerate Nico, but Nico is unable to regrow his skin. When Steven finally balks at helping him, Nico kills Steven and takes his skin. Dying, Steven uses the puzzle box to contact the Cenobites to become one of them to get revenge.

The "Steven" holding the families hostage is revealed to really be Nico wearing Steven's skin, who taunts the families. He reveals that one of the reasons why he and Steven ran away from home was because they were both angry that Steven's father and Nico's mother were secretly having an adulterous affair with each other. He demands that Emma solve the puzzle box for him, intending for the Cenobites to take her in his place, thus assuring his freedom. Emma opens the portal and summons the Cenobites—including Steven— who kill Nico's mother for speaking out of turn. Nico attempts to barter his life for Emma's, and while Pinhead notes that Emma has a dark sexual desire that he admires, he refuses and chooses to reclaim Nico for further experiments.

As Nico is taken away Emma's father shoots and kills Nico in a dying act of revenge. Displeased at having lost a victim, the Cenobites take Emma's mother as a replacement for Nico. Her father apologizes, then dies in Emma's arms. Left alone, Emma reaches for the puzzle box.

Cast[]

  • Steven Brand as Dr. Ross Craven
  • Nick Eversman as Steven Bradley
    • Fred Tatasciore as 'Faceless' Steven
  • Jay Gillespie as Nico Bradley
  • Sebastien Roberts as Peter Bradley
  • Sanny Van Heteren as Kate Bradley
  • Tracey Fairaway as Emma Craven
  • Stephan Smith Collins as Pinhead
    • Fred Tatasciore as The Voice of Pinhead
  • Jolene Andersen as Female Chatterer
  • Devon Sorvari as Sarah Craven
  • Daniel Buran as Vagrant
  • Sue Ann Pien as Sue Ann

Production[]

Development[]

The film was announced on August 20, 2010.

It was confirmed that Doug Bradley, who portrayed the character Pinhead in the previous Hellraiser films, would not return as Pinhead. Bradley was quoted as saying "I know that many of you will have caught up with the sudden burst of Internet chatter about a new Hellraiser film going into production, and will be keen to know whether I’ve been approached to play Pinhead again, so here’s the deal...I have been approached just in this last week (w/b 16 August) regarding a proposed new Hellraiser film. This is not the ‘remake’ which has been endlessly discussed for the last three years: with the working title Hellraiser: Revelations, it will be the ninth film in the series. I would stress that I have had no contact from, or negotiations with, anyone from Dimension Films: rather these contacts have been by way of private discussion with individuals involved with this project..."Following these discussions, and after reading the script and giving it due consideration, I have decided not to participate. The ink is barely dry on the script, and it is scheduled to be in front of the cameras in two weeks time and in the can by the middle of next month (September 2010). The miniscule shooting schedule is more than matched by the budget...Whether or not this means that somebody else will be stepping up to play Pinhead, I have no idea. I guess we can watch this space together...One way or another, this does not seem to me to represent a serious attempt to revive the Hellraiser franchise. However, I wish everyone who will be directly involved in the making of this film, good luck with it."

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Leaked image

Instead, Pinhead was played by Stephan Smith Collins.

Images of Pinhead from the film were leaked, however, the film's director Victor Garcia said they did not convey how Pinhead will look in the film.

Filming[]

The film was filmed over a course of only three weeks in Los Angeles for Puzzlebox Films.

Release[]

On March 18th, the film was released in a theater in California. It released as Direct-to-DVD over Dimension Extreme in the United States in 2011.

Reception[]

The film recieved largely negative reviews from critics. One review says "Not only does this entry make all the other sequels seem great in comparison, you could easily confuse this for some Hellraiser mockbuster from the folks at The Asylum." Another review criticized Pseudo-Pinhead saying "Pinhead doesn't appear to be doing much with his free time but stroking bloodied chains and making sinister faces... it's a farcical twist on the Austin Powers mini-me."

Hellraiser mastermind Clive Barker has gone onto say via twitter, "I want to put on record the flick out there using the word Hellraiser IS NO FUCKING CHILD OF MINE! have nothing to do with the fuckin thing. If they claim it's from the mind of Clive Barker, it's a lie. It's not even from my butt-hole."

Trivia[]

  • This is the first Hellraiser film to feature someone else playing Pinhead.

External links[]

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