After being offline for the past week I'm catching up on some reading tonite which includes a few early, positive reviews for Arrow's
Hellraiser boxset. I was initially disappointed I didn't move to pick up the boxset sooner - it quickly sold out its run (for once a limited edition that actually
means it) - but this has been tempered somewhat by my recent revisit of
Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth (courtesy of Anchor Bay's DVD boxset). Watching the film again, I found it embarrassing, from the ill-advised army of Cenobites shooting killer compact discs (!) to some very variable performances and special effects. I have to wonder what film Nigel Floyd was reviewing when he covered the film for Time Out back in 1992, declaring the film "
a worthy successor to Clive Barker's flesh-ripping original", and "
adult horror to die for". Worse still the otherwise reliable Floyd handed the superior
Dust Devil, a comparatively lukewarm appraisal in the pages of Time Out that same year...
Incidentally, when Arrow announced the
Hellraiser box I had the hope that
Hellraiser's original voice track might be found but I've read that that no post production clean-up was done on the voices of the cast so a re-instating of the original dialogue track was never on the cards. Still, it would be interesting to experience the film sans the American accents, so perhaps worth mentioning that actor Sean Chapman (who plays Frank Cotton) can be heard without that Chicago twang in Alan Clarke's films
Scum and
Made In Britain...
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