All looked a bit 'painted rubber wet suit' to me. There was something disgustingly realistic about what Bob Keen did in the originals that I really miss. Mainly because he really made it look like the skin was pierced and slashed. These new designs really do look like one piece prosthetics that the actors just step into. I liked some of the concepts, but you can almost see the studio notes flying in about how they need to be cleaner and more palatable for a wider audience than the originals.
This really isn't a bad film, per se. But it is extremely safe, and by the numbers, which is somewhat disappointing, if entirely unexpected.
This was my feeling on the Cenobite designs, it actually reminded me a lot of the Seraphim from the last 2 Doom games.
I didn't not like the designs, but they also lacked a kind of rawness to them that the originals have. The originals looked tortured, like they had their flesh torn and stripped, the new designs are very surgical looking, also the same with their over all 'clean' look.
It's not like they are a bad design, its more like having seen the originals as a teenager, these ones just don't hit with the same impact.
And that extends to the Hell Priest. Her design and the way she is pulled off is fantastic, but it's so different from the original it's a little jarring.
I think it's one of those cases where, on its own, it's fantastic, but because it's stylistically different in many respects it's kind of tainted by that comparison.
In saying all of.this, I was fine with the movie as a whole. I feel like I would warm better to a sequel because I really like the world they've created because it is genuinely one of the far better quality horror / gore movies I've seen lately when considering how much crap is out there that treads the same shit regurgitated.
