Good start, but then it gets ruined

Good idea lost in the noise

Boring

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Avoid this. I rarely write reviews so believe me, this flick is a stinker. Cardboard acting, cheap SFX, no likeable characters and just what the hell was going on with the Pinhead element? Worst of the franchise so far, by far

What a pain to sit through this movie. Not only was the script already so bad that we now have Pinhead played by Stephen Smith Collins beacuse original actor Doug Bradley turned the role down but this movie is also a shining example of those movies you can watch with a bunch of friends, get drunk and then start playing "find the only good actor". In case of Hellraiser: Revelations you all will end up being drunk to almost unconsciousness because there simply is none! Not a single dialogue even tried to make this movie enjoyable or make you like any of the characters and the only moments this film becomes watchable is when the dark scenes come up, depicting the world the cenobites live in. Yes, the view of "hell" is still the same and therefore this movie at least sticks to the original, but the constumes are far from being exciting. The lighting is bad, the acting is bad, some gore effects (basically nothing you already haven't seen in a few of the other sequels) were acceptable but ... the entire atmosphere is gone. Low budget movie for low-expectation Horror fans.

After dragging the franchise everywhere on Earth and even off it for one flick Revelations brought the series back to its roots and reminds me of the first two, but with better acting over all. I didn't like that Doug Bradley didn't play Pinhead, but that was his choice and he missed a good opportunity. If he had been there it would have been perfect.I'm not sure where the title came from as not much is revealed to us in this film. I have always like in this series that nothing is taboo and this film did not let me down in that. I do hope that Doug gets back on board if they make anymore Hellraiser films. Nobody can do it as well.

After reading some of the comments here I had a thin hope that there might be some redeeming quality to this movie... but no such luck. Really, it's just a bad movie with an awful script... made so the folks who own the rights to the franchise can hold on to it. It does nothing new and merely rehashes the various Hellraiser tropes and visuals. The main villain is a spoiled teenage brat who is mad at his parents... boo hoo. No one in this thing is sympathetic or scary or funny or anything... just actors reciting regrettable lines. It doesn't bother me that Doug Bradley isn't in it... but it does bother me that none of the characters, Cenobite or not, is given anything interesting to do or say. It's a pile of crap, don't bother watching it because it wasn't made to be watched.