Hellraiser: Revelations = Hellraiser (1987) ripoff

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I just saw Hellraiser: Revelations (the most recent movie in the Hellraiser franchise) last night and it seemed to me like a ripoff of the original movie from 1987. I say this because two of the main characters who discover the box at the beginning of "Hellraiser: Revelations" (two boys who go by the names of Niko and Stephen) are analogous to some of the main characters in the original Hellraiser movie.

Niko is analogous to Frank (in terms of his personality, actions taken, background story, etc.). Like Frank, Niko desires for a higher pleasure than the ones he had been receiving through lustful sex with various good-looking women. Thus, this leads to him opening the Hellraiser Box and having to go through the horrific torture conducted by the Cenobites. However, he is brought back to the real world without his skin through the women that Stephen kills for him . Niko eventually kills Stephen and skins him to put on a front when he approaches both of their families. Eventually, Pinhead and the Cenobites confront "Stephen" and his family and suffers the same fate that Frank did near the end of the orignal Hellraiser. All of this represents the portrayal of Frank in the first Hellraiser.

Stephen is analogous to Julia (from the original Hellraiser) in the sense that they both killed people for the sake of bringing the primary antagonist back from Hell. Stephen is also analogous to Larry (from the original Hellraiser) in the sense that both of them died and got skinned alive by the primary antagonist in their respective Hellraiser movies.

What is your input on this? What do you think of this?

Does it matter at this point? Would it be a better movie if the story wasn't a rip-off? Has any Hellraiser movie been good since, say, the second one? From what I've read, this movie was made simply so that Dimension could keep the rights. It was going to suck no matter what.

Not anymore.



It could have been if it was connected to the previous movie in the Hellraiser franchise and more time was spent on the production of the film (given that they spent only two weeks producing Hellraiser: Revelations).



None that I can think of.

They're making more Hellraiser movies?

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Yep. I used to wonder why studios even bothered to crank out cheap direct to video sequels like this, since I didn't think they could possibly make enough money for them to be profitable. But then I learned that nobody has to actually buy them or even rent them. They just need to make an initial sale to rental companies and networks like the Syfy Channel. Funny as it seems, they're products that aren't even meant to be consumed. And this particular Hellraiser movie was only made so Dimension could keep the rights, so they can release a remake of the first movie later.

(shakes head) The whoring of art.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Yeah baby, yeah!

I liked 1-4, and Deader.


Inferno was terrible, Hellseeker was a bad ripoff of Inferno, and Hellworld made pretty much no sense whatsoever; they tried making it a "let's parody the horror genre" type movie, and it crashed and burned even harder than the Scream movies.

At least with Deader, they poked fun at the poser goth scene that was at the time finally going out of style.