Hellraiser: Bloodline

    Hellraiser: Bloodline
    1996

    Synopsis

    Three generations of the same family deal with the consequences of unleashing the forces of hell.

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    Cast

    • Bruce RamsayPhillip L'Merchant / John Merchant / Dr. Paul Merchant
    • Valentina VargasAngelique
    • Doug BradleyPinhead
    • Charlotte ChattonGenevieve L'Merchant
    • Adam ScottJacques
    • Kim MyersBobbi Merchant
    • Mickey CottrellDuc de L'Isle
    • Louis TurenneAuguste
    • Courtland MeadJack Merchant
    • Louis MustilloSharpe

    Recommendations

    • 50

      San Francisco Chronicle

      For about half of its running time, Hellraiser: Bloodline is watchable. In fact -- let's throw around the superlatives -- it's mildly entertaining. [9 March 1996, p.B3]
    • 40

      Empire

      At barely 70 minutes long, this still manages to stammer and stall between the meaningless atrocities. It's time this series met Abbott and Costello.
    • 30

      Los Angeles Times

      A dialogue polishing by Barker, plus his own direction, might have made a crucial difference. What it got instead was a script inescapably convoluted by the need to justify a third sequel...Like the other sequels, Hellraiser: Bloodline goes in for elaborate special effects and decor, but the film is murky and morbid, laden with a heavy dose of grisly sadomasochism that's more repellent than intriguing.
    • 30

      Washington Post

      They are also bloody and sadistic. There are two basic gore effects: In one, heavy chains fly through the air to impale people with sharp hooks, which then separate those people from their skin, or worse. Elsewhere, flesh crawls and melds with nearby flesh. There are also close-ups of various bloody, flesh-dripping tools and assorted maggots. All this is decidedly gross but not particularly frightening. [9 March 1996, p.H03]
    • 25

      TV Guide Magazine

      Ambitious though it may be, this fourth entry in the HELLRAISER saga is easily the least of the film series.
    • 25

      The Seattle Times

      The sexual sadism that ruled in the first Hellraiser has been largely replaced by tiresome confrontations between the toymakers and Pinhead, who responds to their sputtering oaths with the most sensible line in the movie: "Do I look like someone who would care what God thinks?" [9 March 1996, p.F3]
    • 20

      Variety

      Fourth installment of Hellraiser series proves to be so bad that the director of record is Alan Smithee, the name used under Directors Guild rules when the real helmer refuses credit. The director billed in early announcements was special effects whiz Kevin Yeager -- who retains credit in that category -- but who wisely realized the released film would not enhance his resume. Except for the most undiscriminating gorehound, pic is a pointless mess.
    • 20

      The New York Times

      As cinematic Armageddons go, this one is a real bust...Although it succeeds in crudely outlining the fable of a magic toy box and the demonic secrets carried down in the bloodline of its inventor, it is otherwise incoherent and (except for Mr. Bradley's Pinhead) wretchedly acted. Farewell, Pinhead and company. You won't be missed.

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