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Michael DeZubiria 2012-05-20 12:52:05

I figured it out!

Hey you wanna know what I hate? Lines of dialogue like this:"You been away from the dark realm a while, Chels, how'd it feelplayin' again?""Just like any other ultra-violent twenty-four hour wildly popular andyet utterly purposeless embraced-by-the-masses Internet role-playinggame."It's one of those lines of dialogue that they always put into movieslike Hellraiser 8 that are impossible to avoid sounding like they werewritten and re-written and rehearsed and re- rehearsed and then finallythey just give up trying to make it sound natural after 30 or 40 takesand, exasperated, just drop the best bad take into the movie. That,being said, let me tell you what I have figured out.After years if deliberation about what it takes to make a good horrormovie and what is missing in a bad one, after countless theories (thepresence of teenagers or college-age kids being near the top of thatlist, by the way), I have finally discovered for certain the exactpoint at which a movie stops being scary and good and instantly becomesstupid and bad. There is a perfect illustration of the solution nearthe end of this film, when Chelsea gets locked in the room and Adamstarts calling to her from under the floor. She has becomes absorbed in some photo album despite having foundherself locked into the creepiest attic imaginable, and she hearssomeone whispering her name from behind her. She spins around just intime to see a hand disappear beneath a crack in the floorboards, andshe cautiously moves over to investigate. As she peers into the hole,she continues to hear her name being called and she can see the tiniestglimpse of a face in the darkness, and at this point I am absolutelycringing in my chair. No matter how sure I am that something is goingto spring out in a situation like that it still gets to me. And then she did something stupid.Literally the instant Chelsea put her hand through that crack in thefloorboards, I immediately relaxed, almost to the point of breathing asigh of relief because I didn't have to worry anymore because Icompletely stopped caring. And it's not just because she doesn'trealize she's in a horror movie (despite the fact that the entire castof this movie are hardcore Hellraiser fans, so the fourth wall hasalready been breached), it's because the moment her hand crosses thethreshold of that crack in the boards she instantly ceases to be avictim.And you know what my analogy is? Suicide! When someone in a horrormovie does something that stupid, it is generally because thefilmmakers need to have the character killed off but can't think of areally clever way to have it happen, so they just have the character dosomething monumentally stupid, but the problem is that this places theblame for their death on themselves, and in a horror movie, it's notonly not scary when someone is attacked after doing something asidiotic as putting her hand through the crack in the floorboardsbecause she thinks she sees her dead friend down there, it'ssatisfying, and not in the good way either. Stupidity should be painful, but in the movies, it should be lethal. That being said, it's amazing how little effort was made into making itclear what exactly was going on in the movie. It starts out with thefuneral of a college age kid having been killed because of hisover-involvement in something called Hellworld, which itself is neververy clearly explained. His friends later mourn that they all knew whatwas happening to him but still kept playing Hellworld, although if youwatch the making-of featurettes on the DVD, Director Rick Bota refersto Hellworld as "a website, or video game." It's kind of an ominoussign when even the director doesn't know what his movie is about.Either that or he doesn't know the difference between a website and avideo game. The story follows the death of their friend, something about that game,and then cuts to a few years later when all of his friends get invitedto a party celebrating the said video game. Needless to say, it's kindof like an overblown Halloween party where everyone seems to befascinated with the macabre (serious macabre, too, like dead babies injars, sounds like a blast), and girls randomly pull their breasts out(curiously, the first bit of wildly gratuitous nudity is followed bythe following exchange – "Gratuitous breasts?" "Necessary breasts! Haha ha!" Clever.). When all is said and done and you finally realize what has beenhappening throughout the entire movie, it is such a ludicrous andridiculous twist that it distantly surpasses the Saw movies forabsurdity. If you thought Jigsaw had some time on his hands to come upwith some incredibly complex machines of torture, wait until you seethe plot that is hatched by the Host (played by Lance Henriksen, whowastes his talent completely in this movie). Also don't miss the making-of featurette on the DVD, in which you canwitness Pinhead eating a piece of pizza and, my favorite, Khary Payton,one of the actors in the film, makes the following mysterious analogy –"Horror movies are like roller coasters, you know, they're not gonnawin Oscars or that kind of thing, but they're just a lot of fun."I don't know, Khary, have you ridden Xtreme at Magic Mountain inSouthern California? I see an Oscar in that ride's future!

2012-05-20 02:11:01

Absolutely horrible

I am a huge fan of Hellraiser and it pained me to watch Bloodline. But after seeing Inferno (a person favorite), Hellseeker (just as good), and Deader (confusing, but decent nonetheless) I had a lot of hope for the continuation of the series. Enter Hellworld. I didnt think it was possible, but this is worse than Bloodline. The characters are so horrible you cant wait to see them die (I mean there's a token black guy for Christ's sake), and their deaths are not satisfying enough considering the awful proformances they put you through. The soundtrack was so bad that it'll make your ears bleed (at least thats what crappy hard rock music does to me). The movie is not so much scary as it is laughable. I'm almost ashamed to call myself a Hellraiser fan after this movie. I was looking forward to a sequel after Deader. The only thing scary about Hellworld would be a sequel similar to this movie.

ScarecrowX 2012-05-16 16:35:20

Hellworld destroys the good work of HR5-7 with mindless gore and slasher trappings.

Hellraiser: Hellworld.And it was all going so well… The direct-to-video Hellraiser films havehad a number of weaknesses but one thing they have all done is keeptrue to the spirit of the original films. The Cenobites have kept tothe shadows as we've followed very human characters through decadence,decay, pain and pleasure. That is, until now. Hellworld serves toundone much of the good work, snatching back the credibility the serieshad manage to reclaim after the awful Bloodline and reducing theCenobites to nothing more than mindless slashers. But I'm getting aheadof myself, the films use of Pinhead is far from its biggest failure andthere's some basics to cover first.The films main character is Chelsea, played by the surprisinglyconfident Katheryn Winnick, who was part of a group of friends whoplayed the internet computer-game "Hellworld". However after one oftheir number, Adam, committed suicide by setting himself on fire theyall swore to quite Hellworld… that is until a party throw by themysterious Host (Lance Henriksen) brings them all back together. TheHellworld party itself is a Hellraiser fans wet dream with memorabiliagalore and numerous references made to the series history, such asLeMarchand and the Engineer.As you may have guessed, things start to go bad quickly as the group offriends are killed off one by one in a series of gruesome set pieces,usually accompanied by a line or two from Doug Bradley as Pinhead.Pinhead may appear more in this film than some others but all he doesis utter a couple of lines and vanish. That is apart from onetruly-magnificent character-destroying moment when Pinhead appears todo his best Michael Myers impression; this character is fantasticbecause he's different than your standard slasher, a supernaturalpresence always at a distance from his victims and this sequence issimply awful and goes against everything the character stood for.The Host is an interesting character and actually quite a lot of funbut more often than not you get the sense that he's being wasted, onlyappearing to drive the plot forward. To be honest, some of the time hemight as well be either another Cenobite or Pinhead himself, LanceHenriksen may be his usual fantastic self but the film doesn't use himas well as it should.The ending does have a twist and you'll probably already know what itis but in case you don't I'm giving you a warning to skip thisparagraph. The problem with the main twist is that it makes no logicalsense what-so-ever. When exactly they were all poisoned is never madeclear, we see moments when they could have been but these momentsoccurred t different parts in the film, some after the hallucinationshad already begun. And if they were done at different times how exactlydid some characters not notice the others suddenly collapse? Also howdid they all interact? How much of the hallucinations were induced bythe Host and what was their own minds? You put any thought into it andthe whole film falls apart.Another problem is that the film doesn't even know whether it wants togo the New Nightmare route of being separate form the others or a realpart of the franchise. Characters killed by the Cenobites becomeghosts, their bodies are left behind, people refer to "Hellraiser"though the game is only called "Hellworld" and numerous film referencesare made which suggests it doesn't link in but the finale tries tosuggest otherwise. All in all this only serves to cause confusion.I think the biggest disappointment about Hellworld is that there's agood movie here, struggling to get out. The sets look impressive andthe idea of the house and the party could work very well. It obviouslyhas a love of the material and has tried to put in a lot of fanpleasing moments but ultimately none of it comes together. Having themain characters being the ultimate Hellraiser fans is a fair enoughidea but when they're made to look immature and fairly stupid (in thattypical slasher fashion) it almost comes across as insulting its mainaudience! There is some good stuff here, the fate of the Host is rathernice to look at and the direction is as good as we've come to expectfrom Rick Bota. Everyone obviously puts in their best possibleperformance but I'm afraid that, in the end, the script didn't reallycut it. If this really is to be the last Hellraiser film it's a sadnote to go out on, especially after he wonderful Deader, but hopefullyRick Bota will one day return to the series, hopefully with a decentbudget, and show us what he can do with more time, more money and atruly great script.

Paul Andrews 2012-05-16 14:28:44

Another Hellraiser sequel that has little to do with the original.

Hellraiser: Hellworld starts as four internet Hellworld game playingaddicts get an invite to the 5th Annual Hellworld party at LeviathanHouse, Allison (Anna Tolputt) & her boyfriend Derrick (Khary Payton)are up for it as is Mike (Henry Cavill) but Chelsea (Katheryn Winnick)takes some persuading although eventually she agrees to go. Once therethey find that Leviathan House was designed by the architect L'Merchantwho also designed & built the Lamont Chinese puzzle box that serves asa gateway between Earth & hell. There the four friends are welcomed bythe host (Lance Henriksen) & are in for one 'hell' of a time...Like the previous two Hellraiser films Hellraiser: Hellseeker (2002) &Hellraiser: Deader (2005) this was directed by Rick Bota & one has tosay that it would have probably worked a lot better without the tenuousHellraiser connections. The script by Carl Dupre was apparently basedon a an idea called 'Dark Can't Breathe' & was unconnected to theHellraiser franchise which comes across in the finished film since anyrelation to the brooding horror of Clive Barker's masterful original ispurely coincidental & the whole Hellraiser, Pinhead & Cenobite elementsfeel tacked on & a little bit out of place at times. Hellraiser:Hellworld is an odd film to try & review, for the majority of therunning time it feels like Hellraiser crossed with The House on HauntedHill (1999) with lots of ghastly goings on in a large house but theneverything is turned on it's head in a fairly clever twist ending thatis a touch implausible but certainly surprises. UnfortunatelyHellraiser: Hellworld doesn't know when to quit & there at leastanother two awful twist endings after which make zero sense. Also thereare problems with the twists & there are one or two plot holes. Despitethe whole point of the film being about the suicide of Adam & the twistendings depending on it it's odd that the makers never go into anygreat detail about his suicide, why he committed suicide & the reasonsbehind it are strangely never touched upon apart from one vagueflashback & something about him 'going to far'. Such a crucial &pivotal aspect to the story is all but ignored & that means the twistending lacks any real punch & meaning despite being fairly clever.There's also some silly plotting that is below your average teenslasher flick, the character's aren't the greatest & like most of theHellraiser sequels Pinhead gets about one minute of screen time & thegore is tame.Director Bota does alright, he films in a glossy Hollywood style thatlooks nice enough but the dark gritty visuals of the originalHellraiser films are long gone. The gore & violence isn't up to much,someone is sliced in half, there's a decent decapitation, someone isimpaled on a hook & there's a fair amount of blood splatter but nothingoverly memorable. The film certainly isn't scary & there's not much ofan atmosphere either. I don't like how self referential the film iseither in the way Scream (1996) made so popular, people wearingT-shirts with pictures of Pinhead on, Hellraiser props in people'srooms & all the self homage dialogue. The film just feels too safe &too mainstream. Hellrasier: Hellworld was in fact the eighth Hellraiserfilm but they stopped numbering them in the titles after HellraiserIII: Hell on Earth (1992).According to the IMDb Hellraiser: Hellworld had a very sizable budgetof about $5,000,000 which considering it went straight-to-DVD is a fairold chunk of change, I can't really see where the money went to behonest since it's well made for sure but hardly outstanding. Like theprevious entry Hellraiser: Deader which was filmed back-to-back withHellraiser: Hellworld this was filmed in Bucharest in Romania althoughset in America. The acting is alright although I am not happy withLance Henriksen in this, he deserves much better than this & is a greatactor.Hellraiser: Hellwrold is a relatively dull teen slasher set in a bighouse for the most part but then it finishes with several twist endingswhich if you think about them don't really make a whole lot sense.

eched 2012-05-13 02:41:19

This is not a HellRaiser movie, but seeing as what the series has turned into, this might not be a bad thing

Hellraisers tend to have a code that each film fallows. Though theplots often have nothing to do with each other, you can still alwaystell it's a hellraiser movie because it fallows the formula of one.What is the formula? An original and smart plot(the series mainhighlight) a very dark, but artistic tone, and gore used as an art form(this may make some people sick. How can death be an art? Well,Hellraiser films tend to show death at its worse, which shows all themore why it's wrong, so I see nothing bad about these films beingartistic with death. In fact, I think of it as another highlight.) Wellanyways, this movie brakes all of the golden rules. The plot has beendone before (all the movies were just movies, but we're in the realworld now!) in films like New Nightmare, and to a lesser extent Seed ofChucky. The dark tone is frown right out the window. Dare I say it, butthis Hellraiser has comedy elements. A thing unheard of in thisseries.It's stuck full of one liners."You want to see my Lament Configeration?"LMAO!Luckily the comedy is dropped whenever somebody dies and there arestill quite a few serious and even one or two creepy scenes to be had.The third and last rule is also broken. The gore, though there is atone of it, is not artistic, it's just splatter. Hellraiser would showyou a man's skin be ripped off let's say, while this just has bloodspray everywhere. Nothing really visually impressive about it. And thetrademark is gone. Sorry guys, no chains coming out of the wall to ripa man apart.But, there are still some things that stay the same. Pinhead is onceagain, like always, not the main bad guy and is kind of just along forthe ride, but thankfully this time he gets a tone of screen time. No,pinhead is almost never the main bad guy in these films, but he alwaysgets his say and often oddly ends up saving the day.With all the changes this movie almost seems like it is a spoof of thehorror gener. With it's one liners and sense of humor it does seem tobe making fun of itself, and doing a darn good job of it. This makesthe thing oddly very enjoyable. It's a lighthearted slasher. ImagineScream meets Hellraiser, that's this film in a nut shell. We even havesome bad acting and horror clichés thrown in. Oh, you just had sex, YOUMUST DIE! All of this is out of place in a Hellraiser film. I'm sureClive Barker is out throwing up right now in fact, but by golly, it'sjust so fun and cheesy it's hard not to love. I laughed, cheered, andloved the rather clichéd multiple twist ending.This is more like a fan film, so keep an open mind while seeing it andjust enjoy the thing.

Jon M. Norris 2012-05-12 15:41:35

Some MMORPGers go to a party on Elm Street...

Rick Bota delivers Hellworld right on the heels of Deader (shot back toback), even though both films were shelved the past two years.Interestingly enough, Hellworld had less prep than Deader/Hellseeker,and which had a script based on a treatment that was written in the twoweeks before shooting, but manages to be more solid and a better filmthan either of those.I'm also confirmed once more that Bota, as much as a Hellraiser fan ashe says he is, has no idea what a Hellraiser film is. At least, not bythe standards created from the first two films. Hellraiser feels to melike a macabre tale should, like the tales of Lovecraft or Poe broughtto life as they should look and feel like. Then there's Hellbound, thatfeels like a fairy tale. The first two films to me, is what Hellraisershould be. That's where it was at its best.Hellraiser 3 basically is Pinhead turned into a typical Slasher. Wrong.4 does the same thing in the future segment, but also has the past andpresent segments that I think work in a different way... with somemacabre moments, but still lacking overall what I call the Hellraiserfeel. The only film that seems to come close to the idea of theoriginal Hellraiser, is Inferno... and even that, tonally (the way itlooks and feels), is wrong. Then we get to Rick Bota. Is he followingthe leads of the latter films rather than the first two? Must be. Whyelse does Bota insist on tons of jump scares (not just one or two likethe first film may have had) and even a more slasheresque formula thistime around (in Hellworld) as Pinhead/The Host lures his victims toempty rooms for dispatch? Hellraiser 1/2 were never about jump scares.They were tales of the macabre, horrifying because of that. They didn'tneed the gimmicks of so many other horror films because they wereentertaining and horrifying as they were. Rarely are these kinds ofstories done as well as in the first two Hellraisers.-But... I can honestly say this is the first Hellraiser film by Bota Icould actually rewatch and enjoy, though it is by no means a Hellraiserfilm. Instead, it seems more like a Nightmare on Elm Street film withPinhead/The Host replacing the role of Freddy Krueger. With thatmindset, all of a sudden, everything makes sense. I'm also reminded ofthe self referential quality of New Nightmare, and once more, it fits.Even the predictable first jump scare at the funeral is right out ofNew Nightmare. The commentary track makes many references to whatnightmares they find scary being inspiration for moments in the film.The last part of the movie (when The Host opens the box and main twocharacters on the road getting their final scare), seem highlyexcessive (like they should have been cut)... except, of course, in aNightmare film, it works now. Pretty much all the things that didn'twork for me in this movie (as a Hellraiser film) now work as aNightmare film. It's funny, and strange. They even have a guy losinghis asthma breath medication sprayer akin to one who loses his hearingaid in Freddy's Dead.What you get in this film; gratuitous nudity and sex, dreamslasheresque kills (while not as original as Nightmare kills and theycould be done in a straightforward slasher film... to me, they havedream/nightmare-like qualities to them that go a little beyond thetypical slasher kills), Lance Henriksen in a role fitting of him, a fewhumorous moments throughout (again fitting more in the Nightmareuniverse), some decent/cool low budget effects, the house looks coolboth inside and out (inside being primarily the writers' guildbuilding), the idea of the game (rather than some stupid website, whichthe cover makes it seem like) is actually good, in the vein of aMMORPG. Why they didn't make more connections to the MMORPGs, which hasa level of fanaticism akin to main characters in the film, is beyondme, but not important. The flashbacks actually work this time. And thestory works. The ending, too.The only real moment that doesn't work for me is the set up for themain female character roundhouse kicking Lance toward the end (she doesan arm twist on some guy early on, though that connecting with thesudden random kick? Not to me, it didn't), but even the makersreference the forced nature of this in the commentary track.So... uumm, there you go. If you go in expecting a Hellraiser film,you'll probably hate it. If you go in for a Nightmare on Elm Streetfilm with Pinhead/The Host replacing Freddy Krueger, it should be allgood. And I admit to being skeptical since seeing Hellseeker andabsolutely loathing it, but Hellworld surprised me. Rick Bota seems tobe improving with each film, which is good. Still, it might beadvisable to step away from the franchise and try making a film withoutsuch a connection. Remove his crutches, so to speak. See if he can flyon his own.A curious note; The special features are surprisingly slim consideringthe treatment both Hellseeker and Deader had (Hellworld only had amaking of featurette and a commentary track, no deleted scenes -maybeshowing why the twin cenobite from part 4 is on the back of the box, nostoryboard comparisons, etc)... and the commentary track makes mentionof possible extras that might have been included.

Sandcooler 2012-05-06 07:33:49

I'm getting so sick of evil

Okay, here's my theory. Miramax owns pictures of Doug Bradley murderinga hooker. Seriously, I couldn't lower myself like that for all thepocket change in the world. In this part,a bunch of friends(blondesurviving chick,jerk,jerk,black jerk and lady jerk) can go to what I'mguessing is a party, in case you were put on the wrong path by the factthat it's no fun at all. Master of ceremony is Lance "The BookiesAlready Broke My Face Muscles" Henriksen, longing for the days where hecould be in "Piranha II". Everybody already knows Pinhead and his possefrom a video game but nobody thinks he really exists. Or does he? Thenpeople start dying, usually because they're just asking for it. TheGothic chick goes to sit in a torture chair. I have no idea where thisis going, not at all. The black guy loses his inhaler and panics. Howhard is it to find and inhaler at a video game party? Then comes atwist,and another one, and another one, not too spectacular, wouldn'twant to bankrupt the studio.By the way, I have the DVD in front of me, the worst ever.It doesn'thave a menu, the plot on the back doesn't make any sense, it also saysthis was directed by Clive Barker( I can't believe these guys) and thetagline is "Evil goes online". The tagline pretty much sums up thegeneral crummyness of this movie.

2012-05-05 22:12:26

Rating System Becomes Meaningless

I agree with the other reviewer: by allowing people who have not even seen the movie (but are just gushing fanboys-or not, as the case may be) to rate films/dvd's that have not even been released, does an injustice to this whole forum! Not only are their opinions meaningless....but their star ratings end up skewering the overall average - also making the star system meaningless. There should be some mechanism in place not to allow "pre-reviews" - or at the very least, to not allow them to assign stars. I am sorry for the 3-star rating, but I could not submit without one

angelix7766 2012-05-03 14:50:30

Please, please stop killing what was once a great movie line up

I just watched this movie and I have had it with the killing, of whatseems to be already dead, hellraiser ladder of crap. First one ofcourse is the best, second one not bad, third was a little fruity,fourth one was great because we finally got more of the storyline tothe box, plus pinhead was suppose to be finished in that one, but weall know and understand you cant kill hell. The fifth was just aninsult to us all since it had nothing to do with the traditionalsuffering the first 4 hellraisers brought us in a good way. The sixthone was just another dam teen movie where most of them end up dead,again really having nothing to do with the story line. the 5th and 6thmovies pretty much just used pinhead and the Cenobites as cameos and itwas pretty much pointless. They could have done both movies without anyof them in there and it probably wouldn't of been as bad, just commen.So all in all the 5th and 6th will not be alowed in my collection. Ifeel this is Nightmare on Elm street all over again.

2012-05-02 23:32:58

Evil goes online but this series is offline 3.5/10

Now H e l l raiser H e l l world was filmed back to back with Deader it's just another bunch of bull s h i t. I really don't see any good as a stand alone movie. These sequels5,6, 7,8 9 should've never been made they should've done Michael Myers vs Pinhead but some guy at Dimension said "Oh we don't need to do that it's over the top." So what you did to Halloween & H e l l raiser ain't. Directed by Rick Bota so he could s h i t on the franchise some more. Stars Doug Bradley as Pinhead for the last time. Lance Hinriksen as The Host, Katheryn Winnick as Chelaea, Christipher Jacot as Jake, Henry Cavill as Mike, Anna Tolputt as Allison & Kahary Payton as Derrick. So the story is once again used from another script. It is this boy named Adam he was super obsessed with this game online called H e l l world & his friends blame themselves. There is a 5th Anniversary for H e l l world & guess what those friends do they go to this party held by The Host. So this movie goes into halllucinations a dream sequences which got old in part 6 there not clever at all. You have this girl named Allison that is killed & her death scene feels like it was ripped out of Saw. Mike is killed from behind with a hook chain to the head. Then most of the movie Chelsea our main character is locked in this room. Her & this guy named Jake try to escape & it turns out it's hallicinations there all buried alive. Well except Mike & Allison there dead. Chelsea & Mike are later found safe. The Host opens the box & Pinhead & The Cenobites show up & he gets cut up in a awful CGI & it looks like choclate ice cream. So this is a bad sequel. Doug Bradley is there but again he's not given anything to do. Lance Henriksen is ok. Katheryn Winnick wasn't bad but on the special feature it mentions she is a martial artist it should've been used more & yes this has special features yet Dimension didn't give part III or Bloodlines any features. Khary Payton was forget able. Anna Tolputt was forget able as was Henry Cavill. Christopher Jacot was nothing special but he was ok. Rick Bota I think he taught Samuel Bayer how to direct thank G o d he doesn't direct anymore. Unfortantly there's 1 more to go.

DisgorgedMenstrualSludge 2012-04-28 15:38:18

Different, but not horrible

This eight installment in the franchise is done a little differentlybut still fun. A group of college kids win invitations to a party tocelebrate a game called Hellworld. It involves Pinhead, the box, andall the stuff that has to do with Hellraiser. The host of the party(Lance Henriksen) shows them around his mansion and soon they startbeing killed off in very gruesome ways by Pinhead, and unseen forces.Pinhead is shown a lot more than usual in this one and has nothingreally to do with the story other than being in the game. The lametwist ending is really unneeded and not as clever as it was probablysuppose to be. I hope the next sequel is an improvement.

2012-04-28 09:38:15

HOWS THAT FOR A WAKE UP CALL?

The movie had a really good plot, and wasnt really like the Halloween movie at all. It seemed to mesh two different stories into one film and it balanced well for the most part. The final scene with Pinhead is always the best, even if the movie isnt great. Just remember the title of the review after seeing it.

kroko007 2012-04-25 12:48:15

Perfect Hellraiser

Hellraiser:Hellworld is a perfect and different slasher-film.It is sobeautiful.The actors are great and it is so fun.Goodbye Michael,Jason and Freddy.Pinhead with the knife is here!!! Idon't no what to say.The story is quit good.Also Henrikson who opensthe box is a great scene.Watch it,you will like it.What else to say?Oh yes.So pinhead has a knife and thats why i lovedthe movie so much!It's different then the hooks and the chains.It isalso quit gory.My feelins about hellraiser is fresh again!I cannot waittill the 9th hellraiser.Also pinhead is very cool.Cooler than inferno.

Hristo Hristov 2012-04-25 00:23:39

Damn bad

I totally agree. This is just... sad. How can they even dare name thismovie "Hellraiser"?! Pinhead, forgive me for saying that but THAT ISTHE DUMBEST MOVIE EVER MADE. I was more satisfied when I watched "Sonof the mask" (look at its average vote). At least I watched it to theend. On this "Hellraiser" however my eyes closed when somebody's headgot pinned on something. I don't even remember who's head or whathappened exactly. And they expect us to be true fens?! Hell(raiser) no!My smart phone made clips are better. At least they are meaningful. Ifthe next one 'cause this is a never ending franchise is not as good asit was at least "Inferno" I will start watching "The Bold and theBeautiful" Sad... sad... sad...

2012-04-22 22:59:20

s*&t world more like it

This movie makes even Halloween: Resurrection look like a horror classic. By far the worse Hellraiser movie ever. It does not even deserve to be called Hellraiser cause it has nothing to do with the movies. Deader was crap but this is below that by some margin. After watching the first 4 parts of the franchise again,i only felt anger over this one. Either bring back Hellraiser as we knew it in the 80's or kill it off

2012-04-22 01:25:03

Not Much of a Hellraiser Film

This review is from: Hellraiser - Hellworld (DVD) To start this one off, let me first say that this film is not really worthy of carrying the Hellraiser title. Do you remember the "Freddy's Nightmares" TV series or the "Friday The 13th" TV series? Remember how they carried the names and the titles of their predecessors but none of the story? This is similar in concept, though it does actually feature the cenobites and the Lament Configuration -- the puzzle box. But without these most obvious characteristics there is very little in the story to link it to the Hellraiser film franchise. The story completely deviates from the Hellraiser path.What I find most disappointing about this film is that the bulk of the lead characters are taken out of the game so fast that you don't even get a chance to like or hate them. And the characters themselves seem very shallow and petty and uninteresting.A difficult part of the movie to tolerate is the constant feeling that the movie is not following any kind of plot, that it is just a bunch of scare scenes cobbled together. I was pleasantly surprised at the end to discover that this feeling was wrong. Throughout the bulk of the movie, the story definitely has little cohesion and makes very little sense, which can be somewhat frustrating to sit through, but if you can wait patiently until the end, the writer actually did a decent job of wrapping up the story and giving you closure.As for the horror aspect of the movie, I have to say that it is mediocre. There are moments that are somewhat suspenseful, but all-in-all you generally know what is coming and when it does come it is not that scary. The beauty of the Hellraiser franchise is that, even though there is the concept of gateways into hell and demons like the cenobites, the real horror can be found in the normal humans and their greed and selfishness and the hellish aspect is purely the gavel coming down in judgment of the accused -- and maybe the bystander as well. This movie touches on this concept only vaguely and generally deviates from the normal Hellraiser course to a point where they should have just changed the whole theme entirely and taken "Hellraiser" out of the title.To sum it all up, I think this movie would have been far more enjoyable were it _not_ a Hellraiser film and instead were its own, unique slasher film. Had they done that they probably could have better augmented the story and the characters and built more on suspense and mystery to make a more well-rounded and complete film.

jonathankui 2012-04-21 09:17:41

"How's that for a wakeup call?"

I absolutely loved DEADER, and I feel that it's one of the strongestadditions to the series since HELLBOUND. So, I held back from watchingHELLWORLD so that I could have something to look forward to watching inthe future (as I hadn't read ANY of the comments in this thread...)Finally, I decided to gave in and decided to watch it last night.I am utterly shocked at the chasm in quality between DEADER andHELLWORLD. Stylistically, HELLWORLD has all the makings of a PG-13theater horror flick. There were only two things that stopped it frombeing PG-13; one was the presence of a few vividly sexual scenes andthe second was insufficient death to be a teenage slasher.I'm all for trying new things with the franchise. Certainly, almostevery installment since HELLBOUND has taken the franchise in a newdirection (well... except maybe HELLSEEKER.) Regardless, DEADER showedus that a decent, intelligent (though at times incomprehensible)Hellraiser story can even be woven from a non-Hellraiser work. I'massuming that the HELLWORLD script was written specifically for thefranchise, and I have to tell you, this was far from a good story.1) CHARACTERS - The first half of the film is driftingly slow. Itrevolves around the characters spending troves of time on each, yetmanaging to develop NONE of them. The token minority/asthmatic servedlittle purpose beyond poorly timed comic relief, the horny bastard wasNOTHING more than a horny bastard, the brooding teenager was nothingmore than a brooding teenager, Chelsea tried oh so hard, and theBritish girl was a throwaway. How can you spend 45 minutes barelymoving the plot forward, and STILL not expand the characters beyond twodimensions?! (And by the way, I think someone should recut the film andedit out the asthmatic comic the way STAR WARS fans edited thatannoying fellow out of Episode 1. At least the film would be SOMEwhatdarker.) 2) MUSIC - Nothing said "PG-13 teenage slasher wannabe" like lots andlots of party rock. It absolutely killed almost any sense of mysteryand darkness that this film COULD have approximated.3) CENOBITES - I love Chatterer, Bound and Pinhead, but come on. Wherewas the aura of majesty and intrigue and control that make theCenobites so alluring? They were reduced to little more than slashers.Honestly, Henriksen could have done the killing scenes himself and itwould have probably been BETTER. I'm all for keeping Cenobiticappearances limited, but then when you DO use them, for God's sakes,use them WELL.4) "HOW'S THAT FOR A WAKEUP CALL?" - Besides the fact that the endingmade less sense than the ending of BLOODLINE, and that it was probablymore far-fetched than the ending of HELLSEEKER, throwing in thisoneliner was the single worst thing they could have done other thanhave the Cenobites burst forth into glorious song... Pinhead has NEVERsunk to pun oneliners (unless I've forgotten.) Even in HELL ON EARTH,the puns were limited to the makeshift Cenobites, and Pinhead retainedhis majesty with some fantastic speeches. Someone needs to tell thescreenwriter that he was writing for a HELLRAISER film, not A NIGHTMAREON ELM STREET.5) SHODDY EDITING - Take your DVDs to timecode 1:01:41 and watchclosely with the volume up until 1:02:20. Ignore the fact that Pinheadjams a wooden stake (?!) through the cop's throat. Watch the actors'mouths and listen to the dialog and just picture the actress and avoice-over actor in a recording studio with headphones, microphones anda sound mixer. This was the most POORLY CONCEALED looping I've seensince HELL ON EARTH's "S***!!! GASOLINE!" And at least that was onlyone line, not an entire exchange. I'm all for ADR, but TRY to do it abit better...6) ENDING (SPOILER WARNING) - This was a lot like A.I. (the Spielbergfilm), in that it could have ended several times, but was draggedunmercifully on and on. It could have ended with Chelsea screaming inthe coffin. That would have been best under the circumstances. Or itcould have ended at her rescue. Or it could have ended with Lancelooking at his son's photo. But no, they threw in a puzzle solutionwith no apparent reason. (See #4.) And then they dragged it out EVENFURTHER with a vanride and scenes from the police arrival at the hotelroom.7) The minor stuff - Then there's the stuff that's just plain petty,things that annoyed me in this film, but probably wouldn't have in astronger film: 1) Lance, lose the earring. You're cooler without it. 2)In the scene in the attic (1:13:00) In ONE minute of edited footage,they cut to the flapping pigeons SEVEN BLEEDING TIMES! ENOUGH!!!! 3)Did anybody notice in the beginning that van had a European licenseplate while driving and then pulled up with an imitation New York one?That was just blatant. *sigh* ...Grr..."How's that for a wakeup call?!" THAT was how we followed DEADER?! Ifthere's EVER, EVER another HELLRAISER film on the table, please, PLEASEgive it to Tim Day to correct FIRST."How's that for a wakeup call?" *sigh* On the other hand, it wasbegrudgingly better than VAN HELSING.

2012-04-20 20:34:08

Bad Hellraiser. Bad-Mediocre horror movie.

This movie actually plays out more like feardotcom or a million other "the interwebs is teh bad" movies (popular of late) mashed up with haunted house movies. It's mildly watchable if it's on cable and there's nothing else on, but not particularly recommended. Lance Henrickson turns in his standard character performance. Pretty generic stuff.Also, metafilmic themes were actually explored competently in Wes Craven's New Nightmare, whereas in this it feels like a plot device to shove in Hellraiser material and reference it for a new audience.Here's the problem with the movie - it's not a Hellraiser movie. It has virtually nothing to do with the franchise in tone, or theme. The makers tried to update the franchise into being a teen slasher flick. They failed, miserably. The use of Hellraiser material is incidental and is in no way central to the story. I have a lingering suspicion that this was a script for another movie with Hellraiser elements shoved in at the last revision.Worst in series.

shackelznj05 2012-04-20 03:32:36

what a piece of crap

the point of this movie was so stupid i have no idea how this crap gotmade.this is by far the worst hell raiser movie ever made. the plot wasactually kinda interesting before the super stupid twist near the endof the movie. it felt like a clichéd horror movie not a hell raisermovie.overall a very poor choice for a movie. why do they keep lettingthis director make these films. the icon who is named pinhead is usedfor a total of less than 5 minutes. it was actually angering to watchthis franchise fall from greatness. the point of the hell raiser moviesis to see the only good thing left in the franchise pinhead.

2012-04-19 11:42:40

Different but entertaining

Hellraiser:Hellworld takes another plot twist with the Hellraiser series, which started in Inferno. This movie is more of a slasher flick which all of the other Hellraiser's are not. The plot still has the twists and such as the previous direct to video releases. The best thing about this Hellraiser is that Pinhead is seen more in this film then all the other direct to video releases. Plus there are plenty of Ceneobites, including my personal fav(other then Pinhead)Chatterer. There is more gore in this Hellraiser then the most recent in the series, Hellraiser:Deader. For all of you Raiser fans out there that wanted to see more Pinhead again here is your chance, go rent this movie right away.