No More Souls: One Last Slice of Sensation

I'm amazed at how well the Deader DVD was put together. The special features on it are fantastic, the film is great, and we get THIS little beauty! This is yet another reason to pick up the Deader DVD, the only sequel, IMO, since HRII to evoke the atmosphere of the original.

No More Souls is a very enjoyable short film put together by virtually the same crew as the recent Hellraiser films (minus Bota as a director, with Gary J Tunnicliffe doing possibly one too many jobs). It was shot on Hi-Def video for a few thousand dollars, and though the lighting is nothing to scream about, and though the hand-held camera work is a little shaky at times, the concepts it evokes and the theme are perfect, and Pinhead's monologue is fantastic. This is a real fan pleaser. The ending is simply awesome.

Minus one star for the lighting, and minus one for the occasionally bad camera work, I give this film an 8. I think I've probably watched it over a dozen times now. :)

No More Souls is around the 4 minutes mark, the credits are almost as long as the film itself.

The effects are great all things considered and it's quite well written but the story it's trying to tell needs a tad more than 4 minutes.

The story is that mankind has ended itself, the apocalypse has come and gone in the time it took the worlds nuclear powers to press their buttons. With the lack of souls to reap Pinhead is bored and deciding what his life yet holds.

Again it looks the part and the little dialogue is quite good, but the amateurish narration doesn't help.

Shorts often suffer because their limited time doesn't give them a chance to complete the full picture and this is no exception. It's a story, without the delivery.

The Good:

Some decent writing

The Bad:

Bad narration

Too much for a short

Things I Learnt From This Short:

It'll never be Pinhead without Doug Bradley

Erm there is a massive plot in this story. It doesnt make sense in the hell raiser story, you have to solve the box to go to this version of hell, not just die. So why would 4 billion people who haven't solved the box, they just died in a nuclear war ! It makes no sense.! Why would they go to hell, they just died in a catastrophe. I can't believe Gary tuncliffe didn't consider this.