Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005)

What is this, what has this to do with Hellraiser, nothing at all, sure the lament configuration is there and there's an online game but let that be all. And pinhead do appears but he isn't what he is used to be. No punishment at all, okay, here we do have back some cenobites but that's it.Pinhead is really forced into the story to make a Hellraiser flick but it didn't work at all. He do uses his one-liners but it's so forced and I really got pity with Bradley that he was involved in this little stinker. Also, it's the first Hellraiser with that amount of nudity. Sadly, it doesn't add a thing to Hell. It's also the franchise that we see Bradley performing for the last time as pinhead, Revealtions (2011) was the follow-up and we all knew what that was, a flop.Gore 0,5/5 Nudity 1,5/5 Effects 2/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

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.

This is the eighth Hell raiser movie and it is not very good. The first Hell raiser movie is great. It is very scary. Hell bound Hell raiser II is a great movie. It is very scary. Hell raiser III hell on earth s a great movie. It is very scary. The forth Hell raiser movie Hell raiser the blood is a great movie. It very scary. This one is not scary. It is badly written. It has an awful ending. It just pooh pooh. Good actors wasted there talent being in this awful movie. Do not wast your time. Do not wast your money. Do not see this movie. This movie is better then the ninth one Hell raiser revelations. But that one is pooh pooh. So it is not hard to be better.

The picture begins in the Roman Catholic setting: nuns, so-so sculpture, churches, services for the dead, dreary music, and stained glass windows. Coincident and discordant with that, we have young adults (well, children in adult bodies) who look all correct in their level of solemnity, which they will soon enough chuck off as just another aspect of their hypocrisy. These are the folk headed for the grinder.The protagonist group (Chelsea, Mike, Allison, Derrick, Jake, Adam) were all addicted to the MMORPG video game 'Hellworld,' and have come to the funeral of Adam. Adam apparently committed suicide after a period of instability. Jake is a bit stand-offish at the funeral because he thought the other four spent too much time at the game while Adam was in trouble.If the titles are to be believed, two years go by. The sub-group (Chelsea, Mike, Allison, Derrick) get tickets to the 5th annual secret Hellworld party at a large semi-secluded mansion. They meet Jake there, somewhat to their surprise.Since they are first time party attendees, The Host shows them around his collection of Hellworld memorabilia. All of them are quite impressed. The building is called Leviathan House, and supposedly was designed by Phillip Lemarchand. The house was originally a nunnery until 80 nuns went missing. Then it became a house for the criminally insane, and developed a history of paranormal violence. The staff took a bit of a wrong turn when they all took local anesthetics and proceeded to dismember each other.Chelsea shows open skepticism to The Host. He shows her a powerful hallucination in which he introduces himself as Pinhead. All this is shrugged off, and they go to the party for getting drunk with masks on.After that, we get down to divide and conquer. The protagonists have some rather bad experiences, and the elimination derby is on.Allison walks into a room marked 'Keep out.' She should have done that. Chelsea thinks she sees Adam, and pursues. Jake goes exploring too, and meets Pinhead. Then he notices that no one acknowledges him, except someone who has been dead for years. Derrick goes looking for love, but needs his inhaler. He just cannot get to it on the dance floor, and has to search hard to find it. Mike finds a young woman who gives him some physical attention. Chelsea calls him, but he cannot be bothered. Then his hallucinations start.Chelsea stays a bit aloof, and resists the goings-on the best. Will she survive the party?-----Scores----- Cinematography: 5/10 A lot of VHS quality, which is disappointing. Then again, this picture was straight-to-video.Sound: 4/10 Music by Lars Anderson was not effective.Acting: 3/10 Lance Henriksen seemed a touch not involved, but still delivered his lines professionally. Doug Bradley was good, as usual, in his short role. The other actors just sucked rocks. This definitely includes Henry Cavill, who later played Superman in Man of Steel (2013).Screenplay: 4/10 There is some very terrible dialog, followed by more. "Like a bad horror movie, isn't it?" The Host asked Chelsea. Motivations were often unclear. The story seemed merely an elimination derby for twenty somethings with a Hellraiser setting. The double reverse at the end was moderately interesting, and was the basic reason for 2/5 instead of 1/5.