Review: Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival (Switch 2) – A Hellish Adaptation, In Several Ways

We have such bugs to show you.

Back when I was a lad, I spent quite a lot of time at my local video store – remember those? It was located smack bang between my childhood home and high school, so my friends and I would often stop by and pick up a few snacks while perusing VHS tapes and DVDs. It was here that I first glimpsed the horrific visage of Pinhead — or The Hell Priest — Hellraiser’s overarching antagonist.

I didn’t get around to actually watching the Hellraiser series until a few years later, and I’ve still yet to watch later entries like Revelations and Judgment (you can’t have Pinhead without Doug Bradley, I’m sorry), but those first few films were genuinely terrifying. The notion of demonic beings who, unable to distinguish between pleasure and pain, take humans to a labyrinthine dimension to be tortured for eternity still sends shivers down my spine.

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