What works most about the new Hellraiser are its leads. Odessa A’zion’s performance makes up for a lot of what the script lacks.

| Feb 9, 2023

The elaborate new Cenobite designs owe as much to Guillermo del Toro’s bioclockwork as Barker’s S&M body mods, but yet again the emissaries of Hell stand around being philosophically evil rather than doing much of anything.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 8, 2022

[Odessa A'zion] is just wonderful.

| Oct 14, 2022

Pinhead and The Lament Configuration bring no pleasure, only pain.

| Oct 11, 2022

There’s something lacking. For all the flayed flesh and impaled skin in the picture, this “Hellraiser” isn’t sharp enough.

| Oct 7, 2022

Gestures at similar ideas and borrows familiar plot points but makes the classic reboot mistake of adding too much story to what should have been a more concentrated reimagining of the Pinhead universe.

| Oct 7, 2022

Hellraiser is slick and stylish, but it feels like the ultimate studio-sanctioned version of a transgressive series.

| Oct 7, 2022

This is a phenomenal continuation of Barker’s story, one that pays deft homage to both the source material and the original two films while also expanding the mythology in emotionally complex and dramatically unsettling ways.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 7, 2022

[Bruckner's Hellraiser] evokes Barker’s original adaptation in the same way a good cover song recalls its source material: with love, intelligence, and an inevitably crushing sort of redundancy.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 7, 2022

What Bruckner does justify... is the sheer existence of his remake, an extremely hard thing to do, with enough visual verve and stomach-turning sadism to satiate the Halloween crowd.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 7, 2022

This direct-to-Hulu version offers a credibly creepy retelling in an over-inflated package that would benefit from a few targeted pinpricks.

| Oct 6, 2022

As an ambitious allegory for the chaos and torment of addiction, “Hellraiser” works mainly because of A’zion, who gives her scattered character a deeply human desperation.

| Oct 6, 2022

A 2022 rebirth for the franchise, free of all the sexy subversion that got it here in the first place. It’s perfectly entertaining, using Barker’s inventive tropes to tell a solidly gory nightmare, but it’s a pale vanilla shadow of the original.

| Original Score: B | Oct 5, 2022

Hellraiser 2022 easily clears the admittedly low bar of being one of the best Hellraiser movies.

| Oct 5, 2022

Hellraiser infuses enough style and worldbuilding with a mesmerizing new Hell Priest to ensure we’re ready to sign up for whatever other sights Bruckner has to show us next.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 5, 2022

Bruckner, Collins, and Piotrowski plant their vision in fields that are no less rich, terrifying, or gorily violent than the hellbound story that started it all.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 5, 2022

The new “Hellraiser” works as metaphor, as flesh-annihilating spectacle. Yet it doesn’t quite work as a story.

| Oct 5, 2022

Fans will be relieved to know that this Hellraiser definitely doesn’t skimp on the gore, providing enough viscera and flayed skin to satisfy the most bloodthirsty viewers.

| Oct 5, 2022

Embodying Clive Barker’s original intention of “repulsive glamour,” these Cenobites silently glide on hell’s runway. The assignment was “red flesh and raw meat, but make it fashion,” and their work is an elegant slam dunk.

| Oct 5, 2022

David Bruckner’s Hellraiser reboot is a toothlessly retrograde enterprise.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Oct 5, 2022