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                       Copyright 1996 The News Tribune
                         The News Tribune (Tacoma, WA)

                            March 09, 1996, Saturday

SECTION: SoundLife; Pg. SL6

LENGTH: 538 words

HEADLINE: REVIEW: SLOPPY 'HELLRAISER' IS EMPTY OF ANY REDEEMING QUALITY

BYLINE: Soren Andersen; The News Tribune

BODY:
   BILLBOARD

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   What: 'Hellraiser: Bloodline.'

   Where: Narrows Plaza, Lincoln Plaza, SeaTac South, Gateway Center, Lewis 
&
Clark, Capital Mall.

   Director: 'Alan Smithee.'

   Cast: Doug Bradley, Bruce Ramsay and Valentina Vargas.

   Rating: R. Violence, language, sexual situations, nudity.

   Running time: 86 minutes.

   "I am exquisitely empty," hisses the loathsome Pinhead (Doug Bradley),
demon-in-chief of the "Hellraiser" movie series. He certainly hits the nail
square on the head as far as "Hellraiser: Bloodline" is concerned. In fact, 
he
probably hit that nail square into his head, nails sunk into his hairless 
noodle
being this ghoul's defining physical characteristic.

   This is the fourth "Hellraiser" since 1987 and also, we're promised, the
last. I wouldn't bet the mortgage on that. These kinds of movies have more 
lives
than Freddy Krueger. But if the truth be told, and we're very big on
truth-telling in this business, Clive Barker and company ought to keep their
word.

   Barker, of course, is the one-man horror conglomerate - he writes, he
directs, he's executive producer - who concocted the big-screen 
"Hellraisers"
out of his novella "The Hellbound Heart." But he doesn't direct them 
anymore,
nor does he write them. He apparently just kind of presides over them, and
lately quality control has gotten pretty lax.

   "Hellraiser: Bloodline" is such a sloppy mess that even its director has
disowned it. The credits say "Alan Smithee," a pseudonym used by filmmakers 
when
they don't want their real names attached to a film.

   It's not hard to see why the director is so bashful. Slathering a picture
with blood, guts and maggots doesn't take special skill. And the 
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of the no-name cast ... well, let's put it this way: Nothing they do is 
likely
to elevate any of them out of No-Name Nowheresville.

   The story, credited to a Peter Atkins, takes the audience from the 18th
century to the 22nd, from Enlightenment France to outer space. It shows how 
the
infernal Lament Configuration Box, the clockwork puzzlebox that serves as 
the
series' key to the doorway to hell, was invented by French toymaker (Bruce
Ramsay) for a depraved nobleman (Mickey Cottrell) who used it to turn a 
pretty
young maid (Valentina Vargas) into an fiend named Angelique.

   Angelique teams up with Pinhead, and through the centuries they battle 
the
toymaker's descendants (all played by Ramsay) who try, with a singular lack 
of
success, to invent a device that will counteract the Lament Configuration 
and
close the door to hell for good.

   Down through the centuries, lots of secondary characters get caught in 
the
crossfire and are flayed or gutted or ripped to shreds with large hooks -
usually all three. If you've seen one person shredded in this fashion, 
you've
seen 'em all. And believe me, if you've seen the whole "Hellraiser" series, 
you
have seen them all.

   Whether it's in a dark French chateau, the dark basement of a skyscraper 
or a
dark spacestation far out in the void, one shredding looks pretty much like
another. Rip, rip. Shriek, shriek. Splish, splash. And Pinhead, prince of 
pain,
for whom shrieks are are sweeter than lullabys, just looks on 
appreciatively.
Exquisite emptiness indeed.

GRAPHIC: BW PHOTO ; Robert Zuckerman ; Dimension: Valentina Vargas, left, 
and
Doug Bradley star in 'Hellraiser: Bloodline,' the fourth in the series of 
films
based on character created by author Clive Barker.

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