The Hellraiser Project: Hellraiser: Inferno

Posted by Horror Grinder on November 16, 2007

For those of you following along at home, we are on Part 5 of The Hellraiser Project (read all about it here), in which our good Dr. Royce Clemens reviews all eight of the Hellraiser films. To read where it all started, read Part 1 and Part 2. Our evil collaborators the Geeks of Doom have Part 3 and Part 4.

Review by Dr. Royce Clemens

It’s been a week and I have a splitting headache, a lowered sex drive and a woefully depleted will to live.

Yup. It’s another Hellraiser movie.

And I actually had hopes for Hellraiser: Inferno, which is the first of this eight installment series to bypass the cinema and go straight to the No Man’s Land of your video shelves. People who like the Hellraiser movies told me this one was terrible. People who despise the Hellraiser movies told me this one was actually kinda interesting. All this bodes well for me, right?

HA! No it doesn’t. This movie is unsatisfactory, but it’s unsatisfactory in new ways. Gone are the slasher archetypes and the artsy-fartsy fucking-equals-pain Goth air that lends the series a pretense that I find oh so easy to loathe. In Hellraiser: Inferno, Pinhead goes all Noir and shit. (more…)

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