No, it is not the newest Rubik's Cube! You must have recognized it already. Yes, it is - now after nearly 40 years - an uncut Hellraiser. This is already very funny, since all the knife cuts and all the other charming mutilations are still there. I remembered the main gadget as some kind of super silly Rubik's Cube, the BDSM Edition.
But surprise surprise - it was not a cube but a box called "The Lament Configuration". A brilliant commentary in the bonus material reads the film as an essay about the desire of "unboxing".
That's more interesting than the film itself. Since Hellraiser remains one of the cornerstones of an ultra cruel cinema conceived by and for misogyne psychopaths. The motto of this kind of cinema that is still working (until "John Wick" down to "Dune 1 and 2"): "Go away woman, I have some killings to do". And there is (how wonder) a strictly male self destructive chain of box owners.
It is also the film with the silliest hairstyles. Pinhead, really? And a film with the most gifted short legged Charlotte Rampling impersonator. But also one with a poorly talented impersonator of Jennifer Connelly.
But it belongs also to the truth that it remains one of the most indigestible and deadly serious films of all times. If you want to make (no) friends show it at your next birthday party.
