w0rl0ck

While I'm interested to see what they do with a Hellraiser remake, I believe that one of the reasons it can't work as well as the original is because they'll be working with a larger budget. The small budget of the original is largely responsible for the claustrophobic setting of the house on Ludovico street, as well as the intimate casting that keeps you involved in the story. While Doug Bradley was great, don't forget the really talented performance of Andrew Robinson and even young Ashley Laurence. That sort of casting will hardly be possible in a larger budget, profit-motivated remake. I generally despise remakes, especially when the original was color, had sound, great score, and some awesome effects. The only reason that I don't completely balk at this one is that there is some real clumsiness to some of the effects, and much of the costuming is so very dated. But, the former could be fixed by digitally cleaning up some of the terrible rotoscoped lightning effects, and reshooting and inserting new flesh ripping to replace the primitive latex flesh. Most of the flesh ripping in the film is shown as insert shots anyway, so wouldn't be hard to replace. That would get the film about as perfect as can be, in my mind, without the need for a remake. How about that?

Brian
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