Well you know, when they made part 2, originally Andrew Robinson was going to return as Kirsty's father, but he pulled out after they had shot some of the scenes of him begging her to help him escape from Hell, so there was a hasty rewrite of the script, which is why it jumps all over the place.
But I think on the whole, in spite of that, it's visually superb and the only one of the sequels that both looks and feels like it's Hellraiser. It's also my favourite of the series too - you get much more Pinhead dialogue, an expansion of the mythology and gore that is almost like watching performance art.
I read somewhere that one of Clive Barker's original ideas for the sequel was to explore the origins of the box in ancient Egypt with a thrill seeking pharoah discovering it... I'd so love to have seen that
Yeah, that's something that began I think in part 3, where they'd give a character a specific trait and that would figure in their transformation into a cenobite. But the original cenobites didn't have that - there's no reason why pinhead has nails in his head or the female cenobite has a hole in her throat, they just have them because they have them.
There's three deleted scenes from Part 6 here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQNuiVRTpCc
One of them has expanded dialogue between Pinhead and Kirsty, which I'm surprised didn't make it into the film, but then I guess it's decisions like that which sum up all that's wrong with the later sequels.
But I think on the whole, in spite of that, it's visually superb and the only one of the sequels that both looks and feels like it's Hellraiser. It's also my favourite of the series too - you get much more Pinhead dialogue, an expansion of the mythology and gore that is almost like watching performance art.
I read somewhere that one of Clive Barker's original ideas for the sequel was to explore the origins of the box in ancient Egypt with a thrill seeking pharoah discovering it... I'd so love to have seen that
Yeah, that's something that began I think in part 3, where they'd give a character a specific trait and that would figure in their transformation into a cenobite. But the original cenobites didn't have that - there's no reason why pinhead has nails in his head or the female cenobite has a hole in her throat, they just have them because they have them.
There's three deleted scenes from Part 6 here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQNuiVRTpCc
One of them has expanded dialogue between Pinhead and Kirsty, which I'm surprised didn't make it into the film, but then I guess it's decisions like that which sum up all that's wrong with the later sequels.