#AND the fishing wire -- noticing how much 2022 calls back to the sequel rather than the original

[variousqueerthings]

rewatching the second hellraiser and am interested in the specific “it is not hands that call us, it is desire” line, which makes it pretty clear that tricking someone into opening the box for you doesn’t mean that this person is doing the calling

which in the new one is very much what does happen, even down to the idea that someone can trick multiple people into getting taken by the box, but arguably a much bigger game is being played there and those unfortunates are “just” part of the original person’s overall choice (the bad guy secretly wants to become a cenobite as a way to gain ultimate power, the lead “chooses” grief/lamentation, and through that the ability --  or maybe trial -- to live with her choices)

so slight but significant differences in lore (of course in the first hellraiser kirsty opens the box by accident and is still considered fair game, so it’s got a bit of choose yer own adventure)

#hellraiser 2: hellbound #hellraiser #hellraiser 2022 #i like it more than i remember (but that may have actually been the later ones) #(that i dislike) #AND in this sequel we have the leviathan/lord of the labyrinth #AND the fishing wire -- noticing how much 2022 calls back to the sequel rather than the original #also really like that in this one the cenobite with the fucked up vocal chords takes centre stage #and the voice is very similar to pinheads (sorry clive) so it lends more to the androgyny #anyway i really like the sequel i think -- cannot remember the ending so we'll see overall but the build-up is good imo #and the lore #im watching movies