Joseph: “I don't understand.”

Pinhead: “Ah, the eternal refrain of humanity. Pleading ignorance, begging for mercy. ‘Please, help me. I don't understand’."

I was shocked when director Scott Derrickson's name appeared on the screen. Yep, the same director as The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Sinister, Doctor Strange, and The Black Phone. I guess we all must start somewhere.

So, this is the straight-to-video era of the Hellraiser movies, with ‘Bloodline’ being the last to have a theatrical release. It's also the era that the franchise started to go lucid “what is reality?” psychological phrase.

The biggest challenge of watching the movie is putting up with the main character, the biggest scumbag you will ever see. In the past, we had movies where the main characters were anti-heroes or straight-up villains, and we don’t like them, but we can’t bring ourselves to stop watching. Here, you do not get that. So, whenever something horrific happened to the character, I didn’t care, and that was throughout the film.

Weirdly this feels like two different movies. Because even though this is a Hellraiser movie, the cenobites and Pinhead feel forced in.