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Hellraiser: Revival Goes Out Of Its Way To Ensure You’re Uncomfortable

Hellraiser: Revival Goes Out Of Its Way To Ensure You’re Uncomfortable https://ift.tt/2Y8nez3 Hellraiser: Revival drops players into the world of Clive Barker's cult horror franchise, as developer Saber Interactive aims to bring a faithful Hellraiser experience that doesn't hold back on making you uncomfortable. GameSpot was able to go hands-on at Gamescom, and our play session with Revival definitely delivered tension and unease, as well as an exciting new gameplay element. Hellraiser: Revival is a first-person action-horror game that puts you in the shoes of Aidan Lynch, who has made the mistake of toying with one of Hellraiser's iconic puzzle boxes, the supernatural cube designed to open a gateway to hell. Aidan's girlfriend is taken by Hellraiser's Cenobites, the torture-loving demons from a hellish dimension known as the Labyrinth. Aidan makes a pact with Hellraiser's most infamous Cenobite, Pinhead, in order to rescue his girlfriend. There's no wa...
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Hulu's Hellraiser Review -- Our Hearts Are Hellbound At Long Last


Hulu's Hellraiser Review -- Our Hearts Are Hellbound At Long Last https://ift.tt/n8xGeOv

There have been whispers of a Hellraiser "reboot" for over a decade, with the project entering and exciting various stages of development, changing hands between production companies, writers, directors--you name it. It seemed strangely appropriate, if disappointing, that a franchise founded on the idea of being trapped in a nightmarish liminal reality would find itself in production hell for so long. But now, thankfully, the puzzle has been solved at long last and the Hellraiser reboot is finally here with director David Bruckner (The Night House) at the helm and Hulu acting as distributor. And better yet--it turns out that it actually was worth the wait, however hellish the road to this point may have seemed.

It wouldn't be completely accurate to call new Hellraiser a proper reboot--it doesn't attempt to retread any of the ground covered in either the original Clive Barker novella, The Hellbound Heart, or the original movie from 1986. The characters--barring one or two familiar-ish Cenobites--are brand-new, the story is brand-new, and the mythology of the world has been changed to benefit them. It's as much a "reboot" as any of the franchise's other installments (there are 10 of them--11 now, counting this one) that tossed out new characters and ideas without so much as a backwards glance to the story put forth across 1, 2 (and 6, kind of, if you want to get technical).

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