Stephan Smith Collins is the new Pinhead in Victor Garcia’s disappointing reboot, HELLRAISER: REVELATIONS.
vagrant. But the camcorder foot- age (and, of course, the box) rep- resent the only remaining evidence of the fate of the long-missing teens, whose respective families have gathered in a luxurious Southern California residence for a one-year-later session of re- membrance and blame-passing. But what’s this? Steven appar- ently reappears out of nowhere to warn anyone who will listen that the Cenobites are closing in on him and that everybody’s in ter- rible danger... and sure enough, anybody who tries to leave the area is marked for mayhem until the aforementioned angel/demons arrive to cap the “twist” ending. Series mainstay Doug Brad- ley was willing to appear in no less than eight Hellraiser films (four theatrical, four DTV) but passed on this one due to its woefully undeveloped and inap- propriate script. Most relevantly, Bradley and Clive Barker himself were adamant that Pinhead and his legions posed no threat to
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anyone who didn’t actually sum- mon them: that’s just one tradi- tion thrown out of this particular window. With Bradley out, the iconic role of Pinhead went to television actor Stephan Smith Collins, who does his best with what he’s given—which does him no favors.
The best thing about this lit- erally obligatory rehash is its re- markably brief running time, although 9m worth of padding is provided in the form of deleted and alternate scenes in the disc’s only bonus feature. For those who insist on spending more for less, the film is also available on Blu-ray for $22.99.
LES VAMPIRES
1915-16, Kino Classics, $39.98, 417m, BR By Tim Lucas
Louis Feuillade’s 6.5-hour, 10- chapter, silent serial chronicles the epic tug-of-war between cru- sading Mondial reporter Philippe
Guérande (Édouard Mathé) and the diabolic band of masked criminals (a secret society, really) collectively known as The Vam- pires. What the stoic Guérande may lack in personality is more than compensated by the win- ning ways of his irresistible, fourth-wall-breaking, buzzard- faced comic sidekick Mazamette (Marcel Lévesque), who starts out as a misguided member of the crime ring who wants only to pro- vide for his three motherless sons but is redeemed and later liber- ated from all responsibility by a cash reward, which allows him to become a full-time, crime-fight- ing philanthropist and ladies’ man. One of his kids, Eustache (played by irrepressible child star Bout-de-Zan), also later joins the fight. Lending character to The Vampires are the Grand Vampire (Jean Aymé, a master of disguise and numerous established iden- tities), his successors Moreno (Fernand Hermann), Satanas (Louis Leubas) and Vénénos
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