Titreenp
SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?
Nonureva
Really Surprised!
Zlatica
One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
qmtv
OK, I bought the 6 Hellraiser movies for $5, III to VIII. Here's my verdict: III – a joke of a movie, action Terminator style, with endless Pinhead boring endless dialogue – 3 stars. IV – interesting origins and some sci-fi, but amateur filmmaking – 3 stars. V – completely different. Psychological Terror Moral Lessons. Candidate to cut out at least 30 minutes of garbage and it could be a decent film – 4 stars. VI – Garbage. Another psychological terror. Miss use of characters and actors. The story sucked. – 1 star.I skipped VII by mistake and saw VIII. VIII is now a group of young friends getting killed in a club. Acting is mediocre to garbage. The dialogue sucked. Please stop adding comedy to horror films. Massive amounts of scenes could have been cut out of this film. These scenes added nothing, didn't work. And just bored the hell out of me. It's like if it was filmed they put it in the movie. You can't put all the scenes you shot in the film. Sometimes it may work while you're shooting the scenes, but when you put the whole freaking picture together you may notice it does not work, and it slows the whole thing down. Cutting the running time to about 70 minutes would have been great.Best part of the picture is the horror element. Anytime they got into nonsense conversations, small talk, with the characters the film fails. When the horror comes in, it's good. There's a scene where the black guy (now King Ezequio, from The Walking Dead) picks up a phone and says repeatedly "Can you hear me now"? I'd like to say yes, I can hear you. This is not funny, it's stupid. But maybe film makers can hear me now. We don't need comedy in horror movies. We want more horror, terror, or psychological drama. Not comedy. You want to lighten things up? Then shows us a sunset, or puppies. Not stupid comedy.My favorite so far is Hellraiser II. III and IV not much to recommend. V if edited out 30 minutes could be a decent film. VI is garbage, only a few scenes to recommend at most. VIII also if edited out 30 minutes could be decent.Rating C/D, or 3 or 4
tomgillespie2002
Due to the release of Hellraiser: Deader - the previous instalment in the increasingly dismal Clive Barker franchise - being delayed for two years before finally crawling straight to DVD, 2005 saw not one, but two follow-ups to the classic original and its stream of sequels. Hellrasier: Hellworld is director Rick Bota's third and, thankfully, final entry, and he bows out with his most atrocious Hellraiser film yet, having succeeded in turning the world of Cenobites, sadism and the quest for the ultimate pleasure into a running joke of slasher clichés, with an obligatory, blink-and- you'll-miss-it cameo by Pinhead (Doug Bradley) to loosely tie into Barker's mythology and allowing production company Dimension to retain the rights to the series in the process.Two years after they buried a close friend who became obsessed with playing online game Hellworld (based on Hellraiser) and committed suicide, five friends - Chelsea (Katheryn Winnick), Jake (Christopher Jacot), Derrick (Khary Payton), Mike (Henry Cavill) and Allison (Anna Tolputt) - receive an invitation to attend a private Hellworld party held at an old mansion. The group are warmly welcomed by the host (played by Lance Henriksen) and are taken on a tour of the mansion's lower levels, which include a former asylum and convent. After initially taking the extremeness of the party with a pinch of salt, the group start to experience strange events, such as becoming invisible to everybody around them, and the appearance of Pinhead and his Cenobites.Boasting a more recognisable cast than Rick Bota's previous entries, Hellworld still manages to fall flat on just about every level. With the action moving into the digital era with the shoddy-looking website the characters seem so enamoured with, the action is rooted firmly in the mid-90's, and is shot with the same bland, TV movie aesthetic that dogged many forgotten, bottom-shelf horror features during the decade. You would think that the presence of Henriksen, who is something of a cult legend in the B-movie circuit, would liven things up, but he looks half-asleep during his handful of scenes. Only Winnick, now enjoying success with TV drama Vikings, appears to be an actual actor, with future Man of Steel Henry Cavill mugging his way to the most annoying performance of the lot. There is nothing at all to recommend about Hellworld, with Bradley subsequently bailing the role that made him a horror icon.
Realrockerhalloween
The Hellraiser franchise has undergone a series of misfires from poor scripts, plots and characterization as it goes toe to toe with Friday the 13th for bad sequels.In surprised at this point Doug Bradly wants his name associated with This unless he really needed work.The movie plays on the current trend of video games based on the movie Hellraiser. You have the breakfast club of a jock, out caste, criminal and pretty girl all mourning the lost of their friend who was addicted to the game and mysteriously died a year ago.They head inside the world of the game looking for clues at a party in a mansion that looks it was taken straight out of a Scooby doo cartoon.The plot thickens as Lance Henrisken, the father, who wants the punish the kids for not saving his son and places them in coffins underneath the ground.It had more jokes then swish cheese from the villains motives, his plans, who are the other party goers and leaves it open on if pinhead is real or not?The characters were one dimensional stereotypes who you never feel sympathy for or care what happens to them.Its confused on What it wants to be a horror thriller, comedy from the absurdity on the while project or a porno from the graphic nudity they through in for the heck of It.Hellraiser has fallen away into direct to video category for good reason.
fedor8
How the hell did Lance manage to dig out five graves in such a short amount of time? Why didn't he do it earlier, BEFORE the whole show started? How is it that among a hundred people at the party NOBODY saw him dig graves? WHY would he go out of his way to stage such an elaborate revenge when he clearly didn't have a good relationship with his dead son? How could he know that all five of his intended victims would show up? Couldn't he think of a simpler and less expensive way of rounding up the five of them in order to torture them? What was the point/logic of that last scene when Lance suddenly appears behind the love-birds: didn't he just get split into bits by the cenobites? Just a few questions that expose the numerous plot-holes in this badly constructed script.Still, at least there was a plot-twist – as absurd as it was from a logical standpoint. Although, given what "Hellraiser" movies 5-7 were like, any fan of the franchise must have known in advance that the five teens weren't experiencing reality. The franchise had started repeating itself, instead of simply going back to the simpler formula of the first 2-3 movies.The metal/rock soundtrack ruins the mood on numerous occasions. I have to say this for the billionth time: just because a lot of metal and some rock deal with demons, murder and destruction does NOT mean that kind of music suits horror films. It bloody doesn't. Compare this pathetic soundtrack to that of the first few movies.
