Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival - Beyond the Horror

Game was...

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Anyway, time to play.

Trophies/Achievements

Here's my top picks from the standard 44 (platinum, gold, silver, bronze and 'missables').

Most quotes are verbatim, but some have been shortened.

Hellraiser (1987)

Lead Cenobite

The Box. You Opened It. We Came

A Waste of Good Suffering

No Time for Argument

Demons to Some, Angels to Others...

The Further Regions of Experience

A Waste of Good Suffering

We Have Such Sights to Show You

Tear Your Soul Apart

Frank Cotton

Every Drop of Blood You Spill...

Puts More Flesh on My Bones

Pain and Pleasure, Indivisible

Come to Daddy

Experience Beyond Limits

Come Here, Damn You, I Want to Touch You

So Much for the Cat and Mouse Shtick¹

¹word replacing shit means a gimmick or comic routine.

(Frowns).

Rather bizarrely, Jesus Wept! is omitted.

Not Leaving Us so Soon, Are You? - Female Cenobite

²Go to Hell! - Kirsty Cotton

²repeated by Joey in Hell on Earth, before she jams the box into Pinhead's body.

Pinhead (Hellbound: Hellraiser II onwards)

Burn? Oh, Such a Limited Imagination! - Hell on Earth

Only Nightmares Last Forever! - Deader

The rest

What're Ya Buyin? and What're Sellin? reference the Merchant in Resident Evil 4 (2005).

Unlimited Power - Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

What's in the Box? - Seven

A Quiet Place - title of 2018 film

Lord of War - title of 2005 film

Guns, Lots of Guns - The Matrix

I Can Do This All Day - Captain America: The First Avenger

No Mercy - The Karate Kid (1984)

Red Dead Damnation - Red Dead Redemption

Puzzle Me This - contrary to popular belief, The Riddler's catchphrase Riddle me This was first heard in the 60's live-action TV series.

Most cryptic of all:

In the Land of the Pig, the Butcher is King

This is a spin on the proverb "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king", attributed to Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus.

PC only

For some reason, 25 don't exist in console versions.

My magnificent seven:

Jusr a Flesh Wound - Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Knives Out - nod to either 2019 film or Radiohead song that murder-mystery is named after.

Handyman - a play on Candyman (1992), inspired by 1985 short story The Forbidden.

What's Your Pleasure, Sir - the final line spoken by the puzzle box merchant in Hellraiser (1987).  

Twisted Firestarter - lyrics to The Prodigy song Firestarter.

Power to the People - John Lennon and Yoko Ono 1971 song.

No Life in the Void, Only Death³ - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001).

³only works if at critically low health before Leviathan's gaze kills you.

Characters

Chatterer and Female Cenobite⁴ are based on the designs in Hellraiser (1987) and Hellbound respectively.

⁴Barbie Wilde famously replaced Grace Kirby.

Our ultimate goal is to feed Sunny the hearts of Charlotte, Sister of Mercy and Marlowe to reconstruct her body, pretty much the same principle as Julia bringing Frank men to regenerate him.

Speaking of which.

Bruno Keller⁵ vs Frank the Monster

⁵Like hedonistic millionaire Roland Voight in Hellraiser (2022), Bruno is also an art collector.

Colin Marlowe's fanatical cult the Scarlet Church must be a nod to 2015 novel The Scarlet Gospels, which serves as a continuation of The Hellbound Heart and the canon of Harry D'Amour stories.

Interestingly, Winter LeMarchand (a descendant of toymaker and puzzle box designer Phillip LerMarchand), leads cult The Deaders in Deader (2005).

As stated in a note, the Cenobite Orno is perhaps the least known by the Church.

An illustration of Zora Beckett's father.

Geezer first appeared in a comic line published by Epic.

Clive Barker's Hellraiser, Book 5: Mazes of the Mind

Miscellany

The tentacles from Dr. Channard's hands sprout deadly knives, and one such example grows from the walls within the Labyrinth.

Ozzy Osbourne's grave

Here lies our Prince of Darkness that raised hell then went back to his mother.

In the immediate vicinity, we can also see his iconic glasses and two bat statues.

Adjacent to tombstone is a cowboy hat of Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister.

This is really cool, because he co-wrote the song Hellraiser with Ozzy and Zakk Wylde, which plays during the end credits of Hell on Earth.

Famous paintings

Bruno's mansion boasts an impressive selection.

Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Willem van der Meer - Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt and Pieter van Mierevelt 

Dante and Virgil - William-Adolphe Bourguereau

Fall of the Damned - Peter Paul Rubens

Head of a Guillotined Man - Théodore Géricault

Joy of Life - Suzanne Valadon

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - Pablo Picasso

Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Deijman - Rembrandt

The Barque of Dante - Eugène Delacroix

The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers - Jan de Baen 

The Fall of Ixion - Cornelis van Haarlem

The Great Fire of London - unknown artist

Personal best

In the Child's Play franchise and Chucky TV series, Damballa is the Haitian voodoo deity who in the original 1988 film, serial killer Charles Lee Ray invokes using the famous chant "Ade due Damballa" to transfer his soul into a Good Guy doll. 

I'm sure the others are made up, but the orange book Eyes Wide Open II pokes fun at Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut (1999).

Tapestry vs The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun - William Blake

Police randomly showing up before boss fight with Charlotte mirrors Hell on Earth, where CD and Barbie massacre the law, ending with Camerahead quipping "That's a wrap."

While passing hrough the swamp, the eagle-eyed will notice a yellow balloon floating in the background.

Changed to red in big budget 2017 film, but in the 1990 It miniseries, Pennywise (Tim Curry) uses a yellow balloon to coax Georgie to the storm drain.

Rotating corridor vs 'Meat grinder' tunnel - Event Horizon

This makes sense, because Hellraiser was of the primary influences for Paul W. S. Anderson's 1997 cult classic.

BDSM model vs Lying Figure - Silent Hill 2 (2001)

Probably coincidence, but the Pillar of Souls in Hell on Earth resembles a person wearing a straitjacket.

Pinhead is initially trapped, but a series of blood offerings frees him.

The suffering may be sweet, but remember - I have eternity to know your flesh.

Clayface - The scoop and digest

From a screenplay by Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini, James Watkins makes history for directing the first 18 rated DC film.

Oh, two-part story Feat of Clay (1992) from Batman: The Animated Series also told the origin of Clayface.

Tom Rhys Harries - Matt Hagen/Clayface

Naomi Ackie - Dr. Caitlyn Corr

David Dencik - Markos Szabo

Eddie Marsan - Frank Fitzpatrick

Max Minghella - John Borrelli

Nancy Carroll - Hildie Love

Joshua James - Corey Bowery

Joana Ribeiro - Mia Torrez

Will Coban - Bones

Rob Brydon - Vic Chissler

Summary

Hollywood star Matt Hagen is nominated for an Academy Award and appears on The Vic Chissler Show.

Matt goes to a nightclub with his friend Corey Bowery, where he gets friendly with actress Mia Torrez, but warned by Corey to stay clear, as she's the girlfriend of crime lord Markos Szabo.

Does he listen? Of course not.

The following morning, a furious Szabo finds them in bed together and takes a knife to Matt's face.

Matt reports Szabo to the police, but geezer is acquitted in court due to 'lack of evidence'.

To cheer him up even more, Mia is interviewed on TV and claims he drugged her.

What a horrible lying bitch.

After been subjected to Dr. Caitlyn Coor's regenerative medicine, whose nanocells perfectly repair damaged skin tissue, Matt's face is fully restored.

When Matt's face begins to sag at a red carpet event, he panics and injects himself with a dangerous amount of nanites, apparently solving the problem.

Matt discovers he can instantly recover from any injury, impersonate whoever and turn his body into a deadly weapon.

Don't worry, he's not trying to be the T-1000.

While all this sounds great, Matt's unquenchable thirst for vengeance comes at a price.

Hell's coming with me

First off, is certificate justified? No, 15 at most.

Sure there's some gooey body horror, but apart from Matt allowing his blood to dissolve Szabo's face, this isn't exactly a goregasm.

Just like Robert De Niro's Murray Franklin in Joker (2019), Vic Chissler is an original character created specifically for film.

And yeah, both host a popular talk show.  But the primary difference is that Uncle Bryn isn't killed by his guest.

Raging Bull (1980)

Like Jake LaMotta, Matt's life spirals out of control.

But it's Szabo (referring to Matt), who takes admiration too far.

"He's pretty. I've got a problem. If I should fuck him or fight him."

LaMotta: "He's a nice, a nice kid (middleweight contender Tony Janiro). He's a pretty kid, too. I mean I don't know, I gotta problem if I should fuck him or fight him."

After cutting Matt's face to pieces, Szabo remarks:

"He ain't pretty no more."

This is exactly what Tommy Como (based on mob boss Frankie Carbo), calmly says after LaMotta destroys Janiro's face in June 1947.

Crawlers - The scoop and digest

Unrelated to 2024 zombie film of same name, the latest creature feature to unleash spidergeddon is written by Jayson Rothwell and directed by Ángel Gómez Hernández.

Matilda Lutz - Serena

Gary Stennette - Dr. Woodward

Elena Stanz - Dr. Callan

Andrea Scott - Molly

Isabella Egizi - Bernice

Sam Lucas Smith - Lance

Gregg Sulkin - Bradley

Melina Matthews - Lady Lash

William Miller - Mr. Rossmore

Chris Rogers - George

Summary

After a field trip in Papua New Guinea, UCLA professor George returns to Paradiso Palms Apartments extremely sick and dies in his room, with baby spiders oozing from infected shoulder.

The next day, building manager Serena finds George's corpse, which has rapidly decayed.

Members of the Infectious Disease Centre (IDC) take George away for analysis and place the building under federal quarantine, meaning everybody must stay inside or face jail.

It's going to be a long 48 hours.

Music will save you!

From setting to hundreds of venomous eight-legged bastards, I honestly though this was an English-language remake of Sébastien Vaniček's 2023 feature debut Infested, but no, it's just got the same premise, and a much lighter tone.

Body horror is appropriately icky and once shit kicks off, action crawls thick and fast.

Tenants include obnoxious social media personality Bradley and dominatrix Lady Lash, who richly deserve to die, and thankfully do.

Perhaps the most satisfying death is slumlord Mr. Rossmore, who attempting to escape via a rubbish chute ends up impaling himself on a patch of broken glass.

Unlucky pal.

Realising there is no virus, the IDC re-enter the fray during the final act and rig a device to pump the building with toxic gas.

But Serena (wearing BDSM clobber) disapproves and goes on a rampage, rescuing a mother and baby in the process.

After survivors are safely evacuated, the quarantine is eventually lifted.

At the hospital, a close-up shot of the baby shows something black moving beneath its skin, dangling sequel bait.

The Cycle - The scoop and digest

Unrelated to 2009 film of same name, aka The Devil's Ground, Jordan Downey directs and co-writes supernatural horror with Kevin Stewart.

Deborah Ann Woll - Dr. Megan Garland

Jeffrey Donovan - Detective Marks

Will Hochman - Detective Ian

Jack Doolan - Lenny

Carl W. Crudup - Lou Bishop

Jeb Berrier - Ratterman

Gretchen Corbett - Joni

Phillip Andre Botello - Daniel

Danika Golombek - Katie

Don Keith Opper - Frank

David Myers Gregory - Peter

Summary

In February 2025, brilliant anthropologist Dr. Megan Garland runs a body farm, a facility where human remains are left to naturally decompose for scientists to research time of death and duration of decay.

27 days later, Detective Ian turns up and delivers the shocking news that the body of her father Peter has been found, who disappeared 34 years ago in 1991.

However, he only died a few hours prior, leaving everybody dumbfounded.

Meg joins the police to solve the mystery of Peter's 'frozen' timeline, but their investigation uncovers a terrifying secret.

Bad Moon Rising

The opening hour or so is an absorbing crime procedural, but then becomes a howling good creature feature, with some posters bizarrely ruining the big twist.

Early doors, it's said that Peter abandoned his family, but the reason he took off was because he contracted a lycanthropic curse decades prior.  To protect Meg and Joni from his carnivorous lunar activities, he isolated himself deep in the forest while attempting to break his own 'cycle' of carnage.

Oh, title doesn't just refer to the lunar cycle of the moon, but also to a hereditary, generational curse.

Patrick Magee's practical make-up hits the hairy high notes, particularly the initial transformation sequence, and wolf itself is performed by Trevor Newlin (known for the 'primary' Xenomorph in Alien: Romulus and The Monstrosity in Smile 2).

Unfortunately though, some stuff looks a bit rough around the edges, and shaky cam during close ups fails to disguise the fact.

Climax turns the gore up to eleven, as Peter rips through the police.

Escaping outside the compound, Meg is forced into fatally wounding monster by driving a harpoon through its body, causing Peter to reverse-transform back into a human.

1 year later, Meg is back at the body farm, reliving the same exile as her father.

Whalefall - The scoop and digest

Brian Duffield directs and co-writes survival thriller with Daniel Kraus, whose 2023 novel film is based on.

Even though inspired by biblical story Jonah and The Whale, this is in the same vein as Buried and 127 Hours.

Austin Abrams - Jay Gardiner

Josh Brolin - Mitt Gardiner

Elisabeth Shue - Zara Gardiner

John Ortiz - Hewey

Jane Levy - Eva Gardiner

Emily Rudd - Nan Gardiner

Summary

Mitt Gardiner, a local dive-boat captain is diagonsed with terminal mesothelioma and rather than letting illness take him, decides to end his own life by jumping overboard into the ocean off North Carolina's Monastery Beach (aka Mortuary Beach).

One year later, college student Jay returns home and instead of leaving his family to mourn an empty casket, embarks on an unauthorised scuba dive (bizarrely without a torch), to retrieve his father's remains.

Near the edge of a submarine canyon, Jay gets caught up in a fierce battle between a Giant squid and a Sperm whale.  While trying to escape, his diving gear is caught in the squid's tentacles and both are swallowed.

With only an hour of air remaining, Jay draws on everything Mitt taught him to survive.

The ocean always provides

Although a Sperm whale is capable of devouring a human being, the unfortunate soul would be DEAD within a matter in minutes, plain and fucking simple.

Yes creature's stomach acids eventually begin to dissolve Jay's skin and erode diving gear, but happens way too late.

Muffled dialogue frustrates and flashbacks overplay sentimentality, but claustrophobic setting serving as a metaphor for grief and guilt holds your attention until Jay's absurd escape.

Surounded by highly flammable methane gas, Jay uses a box of steel wool to construct a makeshift bomb and batteries for ignition spark.  The resulting blast blows a hole through the whale's body, propelling Jay to the surface.

As he watches the whale's corpse sink, a boat rescues him.

Sometime later, the Gardiner family board Mitt's boat and Jay finally reads the letter father left, overcome with emotion.

What did piece of paper say? That's for us to probably never find out.

Crystal Lake - TV series

Brad Caleb Kane's brainchild is unrelated to 2023 film of same name, (which has fuck all to do with Friday the 13th btw).

Although very different, series does share similarities with two-piece comic miniseries Friday the 13th: Pamela's Tale (July-August 2007).

In September 1947, a pregnant Pamela is 'told' by the disembodied voice of her unborn child (which she's already named Jason) to murder her abusive husband Elias.  One evening, she heeds advice and takes an axe to bastard.

Not long after, she's rushed to hospital and gives birth, blind to Jason's grotesque facial deformities.

Jason 'dies' in June 1957 and Pamela kills Barry and Claudette a year later.  Pamela arrives back at Camp Crystal Lake on Friday, June 13th 1980.

Anyway, this exists independently, so shouldn't be considered a prequel to films.

Linda Cardellini - Pamela Voorhees

William Catlett - Chief Levon Brooks

Cameron Scoggins - Officer Dorf

Devin Kessler - Briana Brooks

Nick Cordileone - Ralph

Gwendolyn Sundstrom - Grace

Hamish Linklater - Elias Wittering

Callum Vinson and Jonathan Tison - Jason Voorhees

Daniel Stewart Sherman - Enos

Danielle Kotch - Claudette

Phoenix Parnevik - Barry

Manon Gage - Harmony

Brian J. Carter - John Christy

Episodes

1. Camp Crystal

2. Part II

3. Part III

4. A New Beginning

5. The New Blood

6. Kill Them, Mommy

7. Friday...

8. The Final Chapter

Summary

In 1970, Jason Voorhees is bullied by other campers for having a deformed head and his only friend is a girl called Grace.  When horny counselors Barry and Claudette slope off to have sex, Jason tries to retrieve a ball in the lake and his mother Pam is powerless to prevent him from presumably drowning.

9 months later, Pam is horrified to learn that the Camp is reopening.  Two men posing as police detectives tell Pam that Jason's body has been found, then try and sedate her with a syringe.

She kills them both, one with a pair scissors, and the other with a machete.  Pam calls a woman called Nora warning they've been 'found'.  She coats their bodies with bait and drags them to a bear's den, where they're eaten. 

Meanwhile, tortured Vietnam veteran Ralph lives as a recluse in the woods and grows increasingly paranoid when he thinks someone or something is stalking him.  

Believing that Grace's mother Valerie is abusing her, Pamwhacks her with a meat tenderizer and watches her die when face is planted in a deep fryer.

Pam begins a sexual relationship with Chief Levon Brooks, but things get awkward.

Grace meets Harmony, the leader of a hippie group working at the camp.  Pam interrupts a séance where Harmony is seemingly possessed by Valerie, and Harmony flips out, labelling Pam a monster.

Levon's sister Briana works as a reporter and uncovers the dodgy dealings of Bellflower Chemical, whose negligence caused the deaths of two soldiers, but company was cleared in court.

One night, Grace, high on acid, sees 'Jason' in the woods.

Claudette (who earlier confessed to Pamela what she was doing when Jason drowned), reconciles with Barry and they get physical at the boathouse.  Grace attacks them and kills Barry, but Claudette is still alive.  Pam arrives and finishes Claudette off, assuring Grace "Momma's here."

Jason appears and tells Pam to "kill them all".

Trauma makes you stronger

Despite some impressive kills, with even better prosthetics, many episodes can be boring, focusing too much on annoying teenagers and human drama.

Did we really need the cliché of hippies in the 70s? No we didn't.

Cardellini is terrific throughout, and props also goes to Catlett and his goofy partner Scoggins.

Origin story really gets going in E6, which ends on Levon and Briana confronting Pam at her home, setting up flashback episode Friday...

New York City, 1959.

Pam Scott is a singer and while performing on TV, miscarriages on stage.

The father of her child Elias Wittering works for Bellflower and takes her to a facility in Houston.  When put through a clinical trial by Dr. Valentine, results confirm she's still pregnant.  Delighted by the news, Pam marries Elias.

When another trial participant delivers a stillborn baby and commits suicide in front of Pam, incident sends her into early labout and Jason is born premature, with head seriously deformed.

2 months later, Pam returns home and prepares a bath to stop Jason's excessive crying.  However, she falls asleep with the tap running and Jason inside.  Elias returns home and Jason revives, but Pam is placed on medication to stabilize her moods.

Jumping to 1963, Elias celebrates the success of  the Argonaut Project, which accelerates physical growth in humans and helps them resist nuclear radiation.

Pam enters a room full of dead babies and failed experiments, finding Jason (Subject J) on an examination table.  Dr. Valentine tries to stop her, but Pam kills him with a power drill.  During Pam's escape, Nora lends a helping hand.

At the start of The Final Chapter (subtitle of fourth film), Levon gives Pam a Bellflower file from 1963:

Pamela Wittering, age 33, born May 23 1930

Jason Wittering, born May 13 1960

So because series takes place in the summer of 1971, Pam is 41 and Jason is 11.

Year is confirmed by Elias at the police station, saying Pam 'kidnapped their son eight years ago.'

Not that it really matters, but the only thing unexplained is Pam changing surname to Voorhees.

Pam gets taken, but en route to Bellflower, Jason (wearing a burlap sack) forces car to swerve off the road.  After Jason kills some hapless goons, Elias confronts wee lad, who due to the effects of the Project, has bulked up and grown significantly in just a year.  He murders Elias by crushing his face, causing eyes to pop out.

Awesome.

Jason grabs Pam by the throat, but memories make him let go.

Ralph shoots Jason with a hunting rifle, but Jason magically disappears, leading Pam to laugh hysterically.

One year later, Steve finishes the story of Jason around a campfire, declaring all he knows is to kill.

Shit ends when 'Jason' approaches a girl from behind.

Street Fighter (2026) - The scoop and digest

Danny and Michael Philippou were originally on board to direct, but left in 2024 to focus on Bring Her Back.  However, both very briefly cameo as Scott and Max in a nod to the iconic intro of SF II (1991), who were only named by Capcom in 2016.

Anyway, from a story by Dalan Musson and Gary Dauberman, Kitao Sakurai directs and co-writes the third live-action adaptation with T.J. Fixman.

Noah Centineo - Ken Masters

Andrew Koji - Ryu/Dark Ryu

Callina Liang - Chun-Li

David Dastmalchian - Lord M. Bison

Joe "Roman Reigns" Anoa'i - Akuma

Cody Rhodes - Guile

Andrew Schulz - Dan Hibiki

Eric André - Don Sauvage

Vidyut Jammwal - Dhalsim

Orville Peck - Vega

Don Lee - Master Gouken

Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson - Balrog

Jason Momoa - Blanka

Hirooki Goto - E. Honda

Mel Jarnson - Cammy

Rayna Vallandingham - Juli 

Alexander Volkanovski - Joe

Summary

In 1987, Ryu defeats Sagat in the first World Warrior tournament, with dark persona awakening the deity Akuma, who subsequently murders Master Gouken.  This causes Ryu (the Orphan) and his adoptive brother Ken Masters (the Playboy) to drift apart.

Six years later, Shadaloo dictator Lord M. Bison is developing a secret weapon dubbed Psycho Power.

Sports presenter Don Sauvage goes on TV to announce that Bison is hosting World Warrior II in MetroLao City.

Undercover Interpol agent Chun-Li (secretly seeking revenge against Bison for murdering her father), visits Ken and Dan Hibiki, telling them she's on a mission to find the greatest warriors to compete in upcoming tournament.

For the record, Dan (debuting in SF Alpha) never had a moustache, and is a parody of Ryo Sakazaki and Robert Garcia from SNK's Art of Fighting series.

As fists and feet fly, Bison uses a device to extract Ryu's fighting power, with Akuma waiting in the wings.

Mid-credits

In a dialogue-free anime sequence, a powered-up Bison, with Cammy and Vega, approach Sagat training alone at night.  Ripped bastard looks at Bison, suggesting something has been arranged off-screen.

Envy the seed from which evil grows

Is story Shakespearean? No.

Was this dumb and incoherent? Yes.

But fun? Kinda.

The fights are colourful and characters are more representative of video games, but most feature for about as long as trailers.

Apart from Ryu's Hadouken, physical specials look unnatural.  Oh, forget about Guile unleashing a Sonic Boom or Dhalsim warming opponents up with Yoga.

Akuma causing Joe (a NPC in the original Street Fighter) to explode into goreless fragments confused me, almost like a censored Mortal Kombat fatality.

Cammy employing the look of brainwashed Killer Bee assassin from Alpha 2 onwards was cool, but screeching skull is incredibly irritating.  Bring back Kylie Minogue is all I can say.

As you'd expect, the focus is Ryu, Ken, Bison and Chun-Li.

The jokes (some sexualised) come thick and fast, but I can't remember chuckling once.

Blanka scratching his armpit and smelling his fingers. What's that all about?

Ignoring countless references, Bison saying "Today is the day you die. For me it's Tuesday", copying the brilliant Raul Julia in Street Fighter (1994) was horribly forced.

Traditional anime in flashbacks was handled by animation studio Titmouse and definitely the best thing about entire film.

Non-ending has Bison escape unscathed with Akuma's body.

Guile and Dhalsim pick up Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li and Dan, inviting them to go on a 'Bison hunt', as The Weather Girls' It's Raining Men plays.

WHY?

Anachronisms

The following songs didn't exist in 1993.

Baha Men - Who Let the Dogs Out (2000)

Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It (1995)

Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun (1994)

Meredith Brooks - Bitch (1997)

Elastica - Connection (1994)

Make no mistake, they knew - but just didn't care.

Like Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021), 4 Non Blondes' What's Up? is used for official trailer.

Before fighting Sagat in 1987, Ken scolds Ryu for listening to track on his walkman.  Unfortunately, song didn't get into our heads until 1993.  But six years later, a drunk Ken sings shit on karaoke, making everything okay apparently.