As we approach the Big Day of Halloween, your intrepid hosts here at HORROR MOVIE PODCAST bring you the second half of our second Franchise Mini-Review of the season with Clive Barker’s Hellraiser series, namely movies six through 10! You are invited to join us for the pleasure and pain of Hellraiser: Hellseeker (2002), Hellraiser: Deader (2005), Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005), Hellraiser: Revelations (2011), and Hellraiser: Judgment (2018). To help us with our task, we welcome back talent manager and horror author (also a former employee of New World Pictures) “Vicious” Victor H. Rodriguez, whose work can be found in collections such as “See Through My Eyes: A Ghost Mystery Anthology” and “Year’s Best Transhuman SF Anthology.”
It’s been a wild October here on Horror Movie Podcast, where we’re Dead Serious About Horror Movies. We just completed 12(+) Puppet Master films within two episodes, and now we’re wrapping up a two-episode exploration of the 10 Hellraiser films, a feat in which HMP has delivered more varied coverage during October than ever before! If you’re new to HMP, Halloween month is always exciting with us. In the past, we’ve brought you our Halloween Franchise Review, our Friday the 13th Franchise Review, our Scream Franchise Review, our Nightmare on Elm Street Franchise Review, our Child’s Play Franchise Review, our Pumpkinhead Crossover Review and our Phantasm Crossover Review. And now we’re covering every single entry in the Hellraiser franchise, once again in mini-review format, just as we did with the Puppet Master Franchise Mini-Review, leaning on our guests a little more heavily than we have in the past, so we can make it through all of these films in a timely manner and bring you more than double the content.
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SHOW NOTES:
I. Introduction
— Welcome back to Vicious Victor
— General franchise discussion
— Listener feedback voicemail from Frank the Fiend
— Wolfman Disappears
[ 0:10:02 ] II. Review: HELLRAISER: HELLSEEKER (2002)
Dr. Shock = 5 ( One-time Rental for Fans )
Vicious Victor = 6 ( Rental for Franchise Fans Only )
— Listener voicemail from Rebecca Booth
[ 0:27:58 ] III. Review: HELLRAISER: DEADER (2005)
Dr. Shock = 6 ( Rental )
Vicious Victor = 6 ( Rental for Franchise Fans Only )
[ 0:38:00 ] IV. Review: HELLRAISER: HELLWORLD (2005)
Dr. Shock = 4.5 ( One-time Rental )
Vicious Victor = 4 ( Avoid )
*Wolfman Josh = 4 ( Very low-priority rental, just to see Henry Cavill) Wolfman calls Hellworld “a Cinematic Oddity” and “a film a half decade behind the time it was made.”
[ 0:54:46 ] A word from our sponsor, House of Leaves Publishing, regarding its upcoming Horror collection, Scared Sacred: Idolatry, Religion and Worship in the Horror Film
[ 0:58:06 ] V. Review: HELLRAISER: REVELATIONS (2011)
Dr. Shock = 3 ( Avoid )
Vicious Victor = 3 ( Avoid )
[ 1:21:07 ] VI. Feature Review: HELLRAISER: JUDGMENT (2018)
Jay of the Dead = 8.5 ( Buy it! )
Dr. Shock = 6 ( Rental )
Vicious Victor = 5 ( Rental for Franchise Fans Only )
*Wolfman Josh = 4.5 ( Very low-priority rental for Hellraiser fans ) Wolfman calls Judgement “a fairly interesting wrinkle in Hellraiser world-building, but not enough to recommend it to non-franchise-fans.”
VII. Wrap-Up / Plugs / Ending
— A few final thoughts and recommendations from Vicious Victor
— HMP’s 5-year anniversary and a voicemail from Andrew
— Our HMP special Halloween release
— Listen to Retro Movie Geek’s Spooky Flix Fest 2018
JOIN US THE WEEK AFTER NEXT ON HMP: Episode 159 when we bring you our Halloween 40th Anniversary Extravaganza!
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Our Guest, Vicious Victor:
— Check out Victor’s gothic horror story in See Through My Eyes: A Ghost Mystery Anthology on Amazon
— Check out Victor’s body horror story “Some Assembly Required” in the Year’s Best Transhuman SF Anthology on Amazon
— Follow Victor on Twitter: @DimeStoreCaesar
HMP hosts on RMG’s Spooky Flix Fest:
— Wolfman Josh covers John Carpenter’s Body Bags
— Jay of the Dead covers Romero/Argento’s Two Evil Eyes
— Dr. Shock covers Freddie Francis’ original Tales From the Crypt
Special thanks goes out to singer-songwriter Frederick Ingram for the use of his music for the original Horror Movie Podcast theme and composer Kagan Breitenbach for the use of his arrangement of Fred’s song for our updated theme.
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