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N. Hall

MIDNIGHT MADNESS SERIES BluRay Review

Revisado en los Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 el 16 de noviembre de 2014

Please be aware this review is for the USA (Region 1) "Midnight Madness" Blu Ray release by Image Entertainment. The score is for this particular release, NOT the movie itself which is a 5 star horror movie classic!!

Now that that's out of the way, BUYER BEWARE!! It's a damn shame Anchor Bay (long time rights holder to the New World Cinemas back catalog) did not get around to releasing this on Blu Ray before they farmed the rights for the Hellraisers out to Image Entertainment.

Unfortunately the picture quality of the 1.78:1 image on this release is not a huge step up from the Anchor Bay THX Digitally Remastered DVD. I'm fairly certain it's the exact same master transfer, simply AVC encoded at a higher 1080p resolution. This in itself is an upgrade, but it's all the upgrade you get, and it's frankly not an overly noticeable difference from the DVD upscaled unless you have a larger TV. There has been no dirt removal or cleanup on the image so dirt specs and print damage pop up every now and then, unlike the cleanup Anchor Bay did on the Hellraiser I Blu-Ray transfer (again, huge shame they didn't do this one too). Thankfully, this also means there has been no DNR applied. If there's a silver lining to be had, it's that the image does sharpen up and look pretty crisp for the most part after the opening recap of the previous movie and once they get out of the hospital. Truth be told, there's no denying this is the best Hellraiser II has ever looked but on the flipside, when compared with what Anchor Bay did for Hellraiser I on BluRay and what could have been, it's a travesty.

Audio comes in the form of a DTS 5.1 Master Audio track which is honestly the best thing about this release. Audio sounds full and surrounds are good considering the source.

And that's about it, really. There are no extras on this release, save for the theatrical trailer. No commentary track, no features or image galleries, not even a single page chapter list insert. Another reviewer said Image put "absolutely no effort whatsoever" into this release. Sorry to say folks, but this guy was giving them TOO MUCH credit.

If you currently own the aforementioned Anchor Bay THX Digital Remaster of Hellraiser II: Hellbound on DVD, I can't think of many reasons for wanting to pick this up unless you've got a larger TV and just HAVE to have that little extra bit of definition offered by the increased 1080p resolution. Even then, you're going to want to hang on to your THX DVD for the commentary track, two-page foldout trivia note insert, and extra features. If you don't currently own the movie, and don't already own Hellraiser I and III on BluRay, you may want to consider importing the excellent Hellraiser BluRay Box set instead of supporting this release. The advantages of the set are the first three movies in one place in a uniform matching set, a nice box with English titles on the face and spine that fits perfectly and looks great on your shelf amongst your single titles, a hi-def transfer of Hellraiser II either identical to or comparable to the transfer on this release, and last but certainly not least a great looking 1.78:1 hi-def transfer of the elusive Hellraiser III which is not otherwise available on Blu Ray individually in the U.S. at this time. The only drawback of the box set is the high price point at the time of this writing.

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Clayfreak

Not much effort by Image Entertainment

Revisado en los Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 el 10 de septiembre de 2011

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First of all let me say this review is of the blu-ray itself and not the movie. The movie Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 is a 5 star movie....one of my favorite horror films of all time actually. Image Entertainment really put no effort into this release at all. No extras at all except a very grainy trailer. The picture quality alternates between very grainy and muddy to almost quite nice..literally the entire movie. Certain dark scenes are very bad and then other dark scenes are almost HD showcase quality. Light scenes tended to look better then oddly became grainy and muddy but still watchable. Skin tones also seem more red than they should be.

I know that this is a 20 year old movie but with blu-rays it's kind of expected that a remastered HD transfer is in order(...or else why upgrade?) and i understand this isn't Star Wars, so millions of dollars aren't going to be spent on the remastering process but i would have expected a better end result from Image.

I could actually forgive the image quality because i love this movie so much. What i can't comprehend is the lack of extras. The 20th anniversary DVD from Anchor Bay, which i also have, has audio commentary, interviews and tons of behind the scene footage. Even plenty of new interviews with the cast and crew. Image Entertainment saw fit to include NONE of that.

Sound quality is very good though. For the source material Hellbound sounds better than it ever has. Dialogue is clean and loud scenes will give your subwoofer a slight workout. Being a Hellraiser fan and owning all of the movies on DVD. Even Hellraiser: Hellworld..not something i'm proud of:-) i can say that i am happy to have this on blu-ray and being a sucker for anything Hellraiser related...if Image Entertainment decides to get their act together,i would buy a Hellraiser:Hellbound special edition again on blu-ray with a better HD transfer and extras.

If you haven't bought this yet. RENT IT and buy Anchor Bay's 20th Anniversary DVD. Most Blu-ray players upconvert DVD's anyway and the picture quality sadly will be the same as this blu-ray. Wait for a better release on blu-ray because this one is subpar at best.

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Amazon Customer

Bargain bin bound

Revisado en el Reino Unido 🇬🇧 el 11 de noviembre de 2012

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I'm not sure what it is about Hellbound which leaves me apathetic, as it isn't really much different to Hellraiser, a film I liked, in tone and content. Maybe I expected more surrealism; having seen brief clips I thought this would be a much stranger film. The plot, however, is very linear, with characters who behave as and when required, their motives barely sketched. They all make puddles seem deep; we learn only what's needed for the sake of coherence. Hellraiser's characters weren't complex, but they had some life outside their lines. Everyone here is just a cipher. If the film was going to be this shallow it should have scrapped much of its narrative and focused on its imagery, the strongest thing here. As a sequel Hellbound is just more of the same, except with less oomph.
Kirsty's (Ashley Laurence) back, locked in a psychiatric hospital following her encounter with the Cenobites. Her boyfriend, according to some cop, was "sent home hours ago", whatever that means; he's never mentioned again. She's plagued by visions of her father and goes into hell to look for him, accompanied by fellow patient Tiffany (Imogen Boorman), a mute girl obsessed with puzzles. There's also a couple of subplots about Kirsty's shrink Dr. Channard (Kenneth Cranham) and stepmother Julia (Claire Higgins).
Strange circuses and candlelit rooms torment our heroines in the film's strongest scenes. Hell is evoked with special effects that are stunning to behold even at their most repellant. Nicely lurid montages are dotted throughout, such as a vision of Dr. Channard's. There's also, of course, buckets of blood and viscera. I think Hellbound's gorier than Hellraiser, or maybe there's just more of what we saw the first time around. If a compelling story was found to join up the images Hellbound could have been great, but it's just a lot of dreary, depressing events which are then over. Nobody's developed at all, there's no subtext or themes, and to be honest it makes me wonder why I liked Hellraiser so much. That film, however, teased us with what the Cenobites' lair looks like; most of it takes place in a house which is a conduit between worlds. Hellbound, on the other hand, is set mostly in a drab, gray hell. This sequel reeks of filmmaking by committee; imagination is replaced with marketability.

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Liam Christopher Oates

no problem

Revisado en el Reino Unido 🇬🇧 el 29 de junio de 2021

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delivered today 29th june

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Yarch Silva

Cheap... that's the whole description

Revisado en los Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 el 21 de agosto de 2015

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Ok, more to the point. So as the same of most of us, I bought this for the sake of having this horror classic in all its HD glory but this is my honest impression:

I don't know anything about encoding, I dont know if it has to do with the source material but the encoding its lame. If you have the 20th anniversary DVD and a bluray player with a decent upscaler, stay with it.

Extras? none. Just a cheap trailer.

Don't buy it.

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Kathryn G. Brooke

Bad cover art, no dust cover.

Revisado en los Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 el 25 de septiembre de 2019

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For $27.99 this looks like a $5 art bargain bin walmart release. No dust cover. No pizazz. A 2k with a few new features is what you are paying for. Wait for it to go on sale. It's a shame because they proved they can release good covers.

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Revisado en Francia 🇫🇷 el9 de noviembre de 2014

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