Nothing is intriguing about the atmosphere and suspense and creepiness are lacking and replaced by silliness. Would have liked more imagination and the kills on the whole would have been more unnerving if the gratuitous elements were used less and if used were there for a reason. The storytelling too is very confused, incoherent at worst, while the second half especially is rushed and far-fetched.
The only character one roots for or is interested in is Pinhead, the others are bland and annoying. Excepting Bradley, the acting is even more laughable than in the previous film with no exception. Altogether, watchable but with a number of issues. It's the Space Station Minos in the year Paul Merchant uses a robot to solve the puzzle box when an armed squad breaks in. They find Merchant alone, his crew missing, and take him into custody. His ancestor built the first puzzle box for aristocrat Duc de L'Isle in 18th century France and his desire for dark magic.
De L'Isle summons the demon Princess Angelique. Two hundred years later, she goes to NYC to recover the box from the building's foundation and calls up Pinhead. They seek a Merchant descendent to permanently open the gates of hell until in , Paul uses his ancestor's design to build the space station and finally close the gates of hell. It's a bit of misdirection. Most of this does not take place in the future. It decreases the fun of it all.
I'd rather have a campy future monster horror. I want silly space action. Available in: p. BluRay Download Subtitles. If you torrent without a VPN, your ISP can see that you're torrenting and may throttle your connection and get fined by legal action! A shady police detective becomes embroiled in a strange world of murder, sadism and madness after being assigned a murder investigation against a madman known only as "The Engineer".
Parental Guide. Despite appreciating horror very much with a lot of classic ones out there, such as 'Halloween', 'Nightmare on Elm Street', 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre', 'Night of the Living Dead' and 'The Exorcist', plus the best of Hammer House of Horror , even if not my favourite genre, it took me a while to get round to watching the 'Hellraiser' franchise. Due to having so much to watch and review, and the list keeps getting longer and longer.
The film that started the franchise off is not only for me by far the best of the 'Hellraiser' films it also for me, and quite a few others it seems, is one of the stronger horror films of the 80s, though not quite of all time. What is meant by being by far the best of the 'Hellraiser' films is that it is the only one to be above very good, the nine sequels were very variable leaning towards the disappointing and the latter films particularly are suggestive of the franchise having run its course.
Found the second film to be by far the best of the sequels and tthird and fourth films to be watchable if problematic. It was with 'Hellraiser: Inferno' when the franchise took a turn for the worse, though much worse followed this. If there is anything that is quite a bit better than 'Hell on Earth' and especially 'Bloodline' it is the acting in crucial roles, which by 'Hellraiser' sequels standards was not bad.
Craig Sheffer was a decent lead and James Remar is solid in his role too. Cannot say anything bad about Doug Bradley who is still genuinely frightening in the little screen time he has. It also doesn't look too awful, some atmospheric scenery, above average effects, unsettling enough photography.
The film begins very well, being suitably creepy. It at least makes sense too and there is a nice unnerving atmosphere. On the other hand, like others have said, one of the biggest problems is that it doesn't feel like a 'Hellraiser' film.
Overall, far from a revelation and actually an intelligence-insulting mess. They meet a vagrant Daniel Buran in a bar that gives a puzzle box to Nico. When he opens the device, he finds that it is a key to hell. Nico brings Pinhead Stephan Smith Collins that inflicts pain to him and Steven and the youngsters vanish.
Later, in Los Angeles, Dr. Both families miss Steven and Nico and they hired a private detective to seek them out, but he only finds Nico's backpack. When Emma snoops around the backpack, she finds the puzzle box and out of the blue, Steven returns covered of blood.
But soon they discover that it is not Steven's soul that is inside his body. It shows the terrible fate of the classic Clive Baker's horror story "Hellraiser" and its great sequel "Hellbound: Hellraiser II" The worst thing is that the conclusion gives the sensation that the author intends to make another sequel that should be released straight to garbage instead of to video. My vote is three. Capitalizing on bad movies, the film opens up with the annoying hand held camera as 2 young males Nick Eversman and Jay Gillespie head to Mexico in hopes of a sexual encounter.
The next thing you know their car is jacked, then they are opening the puzzle box. Pinhead appears. Now I understand real people age and in hell they don't so they needed another pinhead. But if you are going to have someone speak monotone lines and sound odious, you must use voice enhancements, like they do in low budget films.
There are times when both guys are being filmed at the same time and you have to ask why is the camera still jerking around? Now I can't remember the last Hellraiser I saw, was it the corporate one or the thing in outer space And apparently it doesn't matter how it ties into the other films in the series.
Then there are some plot points I am confused about. Worst of all is the ridiculously over-the-top and far-fetched ending, that was even more of an incomprehensible parody as the one in the previous film. Overall, watched and one of the better 'Hellraiser' sequels but could have been better. It's lost the disturbing independent vibe but replaced it with superficiality and style. The story this time around sees Pinhead trapped inside a weird statue which ends up being purchased by a sleazy womaniser who runs a nightclub.
Before too long, the hellish demon is free to cause havoc once more, this time wandering Earth to claim more victims. The only person who can stop him is Terry Farrell's random protagonist, who just so happens to have possession of the powerful puzzle box.
My favourite part of the film is the way in which the human characters are turned into Cenobites, each with their own look and special power. The guy who shoots CDs is hilarious as is the cameraman with a literal camera in his head. There's plenty of sloppy gore on offer here and the special effects are pretty good, although Pinhead's "look" is a bit off and he lacks the menace he had in the first two movies.
Doug Bradley just doesn't cut it as he did previously. The rest of the cast are little better, with Farrell out of her depth and the others giving occasionally laughable performances, although Paula Marshall is surprisingly effective in her smaller part. Kudos to the special effects team who create all manner of nasty mayhem involving hooks, chains, and other body-flaying scenes of carnage, with the nightclub massacre a particular highlight.
Monroe buys it for his nightclub, The Boiler Room. She decides to investigate when her story is turned down. Terri turns out to be one of Monroe's many girlfriends and she has the box. This is the franchise turning into a more standard horror.
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