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Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996)

Rate: 2
Viewed: 6/10

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6/10: Many times, I wondered why film companies were dead set on making stupid sequels that were full of mindless drivel.

Hellraiser: Bloodline is no exception. For the first half hour or so, the movie was going all right until the pinhead started to show up. Then, it quickly went downhill from there.

Pinhead talks too much and is full of shit with empty platitudes. I had been saying, "Okay, whatever. Can we speed this up already?" There's a lot of gore like the last sequel. But it doesn't equate to horror. A well-crafted story does, but there's none to be found here.

A countdown timer is shown which was less than six minutes. Then, about two minutes later, it's more than six minutes. This probably explains why the director was named Alan Smithee. Also, looking at the codes for the computer program, there's a word "alpha" that's misspelled as "aplha." Yeah, low IQ was clearly at work among the filmmakers. I don't get this: if killing off the Merchant's bloodline is so important, why don't they do it during the 18th century instead of waiting until the 22nd century when one of the descendants is in the mother's womb?

All in all, low intelligence has been overwhelming throughout Hellraiser: Bloodline.