GamerTab That was an excellent one.

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

qmtv This week I just watched Hellraiser 3 – failure, amateur hour action nonsense. And Hellraiser 4 – failure, amateur hour, some interesting ideas, still garbage. Now Hellraiser 5 – again some interesting ideas, and decent fx, but padded unnecessary long scenes of boredom and drawn out garbage.The ideas of #5 is fine. We have a cop that is not so nice, he steals money, does drugs, cheats on his wife with prostitutes, beats up on informants, entraps/blackmails his partner. For all that he gets a ride on the Hellraiser train. The problem is, yes he's not a good guy, but maybe they could have found a truly evil fellow to put on that train. He's not all bad, he's trying to find the child before the guy leaving the kids fingers behind at each death scene. He finds the evil box, opens it and he is tormented till the end of the movie. Great. The problem is boring dialogue, not even so bad it's funny. Except it even got to that point in the middle of the movie, where I was laughing at the choices the filmmakers made in each scene.We get Pinhead for a few seconds in the first 20 minutes, then he shows up again towards the end. I didn't have a problem with that. In #3 and 4 he just kept blabbing and blabbing continuous nonsense, I started hating he how he tortured me with his words. At least the Pinhead performance was great in this one. And most of the demons and fx were great. The cinematography was decent as well. Music was competent. The main problem is the drawn out dialogue and nonsense scenes and the editing. The acting was OK, not great, better than #3 and 4 but given the dialogue and story who cares.As it is I would only recommend this to people who need to see every single Hellraiser movie. It has some interesting ideas and given the weak dialogue, acting and editing, it is a prime candidate for reediting and cut down from 99 minutes to maybe 70 minutes.The fx and the demon scenes are good and some other decent scenes. Currently I can only give this a C or D, 3 maybe 4 rating. If cut to 70 minutes, it can be a 5 or maybe even a 6 star movie, which I would recommend.OK, I just watched #VI and it made me reconsider #V. Compared to #VI, #V is a masterpiece. I am officially upgrading the rating to 4. Please reedit this movie to 70 or 75 minutes, cut out the nonsense. I don't need more Pinhead. I need less nonsense.

GL84 Getting involved in a strange case, a police detective gradually comes to realize that he's far more involved in the crimes due to Pinhead and his demons and tries to stop it before it consumes him and his family.This one is an utterly abysmal and barely worthwhile effort that doesn't have a lot of redeeming values. About the only thing that really works is the tension built up over the Cenobites and their few appearances here which are quite chilling in most cases. From the quick-shot glances of the faceless demon to the multitude of psychological tortures inflicted throughout the scenes in the hospital room or his flashback into his childhood home, these scenes with the Cenobites showing off their psychotic tendencies and mind-games are incredibly enjoyable and really seem to come from a better movie altogether. That's mainly due to the massive amount of flaws present which are so damaging and detrimental that there's hardly anything about this that's worthwhile. The biggest issue here is this one spends so much time on the investigation and his mental stability that the film doesn't even feel like part of the rest of the series. There's so little time here with the creatures here who have at most five minutes of screen-time that their presence is wasted on such a film, so there's barely a real connection here to the series in this manner anyway. Those scenes focusing on his descent into madness are some of the most boring, dragged out scenes in the series that they just don't have any real more or suspense to them continually appearing for about twenty second sand causing him to go off on a long tangent that just makes for an utterly boring and cringe-worth series of scenes. In the midst of all this searching, we get useless scenes just to show that he has a tortured family life, then it's back to the investigation, being almost as maddening as the search. To make it even worse, the investigation scenes, which took up the majority of the movie, were just criminally slow and boring, and it can be pretty hard to see this one all the way through. Those issues by themselves would give this one a seriously bad name, but then it throws on top of those issues one more act here with the heinous factor of using the entire plot as a morality tale just makes this one unbearable. Not only is the choice to do this incredibly insipid and wasteful, but the entire purpose for including it is outright illogical as this was never a part of the series to begin with as they were always about punishing people so the need to teach him a lesion despite being the perfect person to torment makes this the single biggest flaw in here and that makes this one near impossible to come back from.Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, Nudity, drug use and children-in-jeopardy.

badfeelinganger Hellraiser: Inferno is just what this series and the Horror genre in general need a double helping of style and substance.Scott Derrickson, the director of "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" and the remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" had to get his full-length horror/sci fi film genre chops somewhere. He did that by directing and co-writing "Hellraiser: Inferno," the fifth film in the "Hellraiser" series. Not only is this film on par with Clive Barker's original nightmare, it shamefully went straight to video.Craig Sheffer is outstanding as Joseph Thorne, our anti-hero. He is a Denver detective with a knack for solving complicated puzzles and cases. He also has a knack for snorting cocaine, stealing crime scene evidence, and visiting prostitutes. He ignores his wife and young daughter, wrapping himself up in every case. His partner, Tony (Nicholas Turturro), is more grounded, with a wife and two kids of his own. In the beginning of the film, the pair investigate the brutal murder of an acquaintance from Joseph's high school years. The man was literally torn apart, and also found at the scene was the finger of an unidentified child, and a strange wooden puzzle box. Joseph takes the box, later picks up a hooker, and after another night of debauchery, solves the puzzle box in a seedy motel while the hooker sleeps.Derrickson has crafted an ugly looking film along the lines of "Seven." He crosses the taboo line in that children are victims of this world (and the afterlife). He also rivets the viewer, as the case's turns become more and more unexpected. Derrickson co-wrote the screenplay with Paul Harris Boardman, and they come up with both a clever police procedural as well as a spooky demonic film.Joseph's voice-over narration is as necessary as Harrison Ford's in "Blade Runner," "Hellraiser: Inferno" is by far the strongest entry in the series, full of horror and interesting ideas, as well as some excellent performances and suspenseful plotting. Good stuff all around.Pinhead: It's all a puzzle, isn't it, Joseph? Like a game of chess, perhaps. The pieces move, apparently aimlessly, but always towards one single objective: to kill the king. But who is the king in this game, Joseph? That is the question you must ask yourself.

BA_Harrison Inferno, the fifth film in the Hellraiser franchise and the first to go straight to DVD, stars Craig Sheffer as corrupt police detective Joseph Thorne, who snorts drugs and screws hookers instead of spending time with his attractive wife Melanie (Noelle Evans) and young daughter Chloe (Lindsay Taylor). After Thorne takes a strange puzzle box—the Lament Configuration—from the scene of a crime (as well as a vial of cocaine, which he shares with his next hooker), he finds himself entering a hellish world where he is plagued by his worst nightmares and a mysterious killer known as The Engineer.With solid direction by Scott Derrickson and good performances all round, this is a technically proficient sequel, but it does suffer from a storyline that treads an awful lot of water: once Thorne fiddles with the Lament Configuration and enters its domain, there isn't an awful lot in the way of plot progression (or Cenobite action, for that matter), the remainder of the film consisting of a series of confusing incidents that, while undeniably atmospheric, only serve to waste time until the final revelation, which isn't all that unexpected when it arrives. Think 'noir mystery crossed with Jacob's Ladder' and you have Hellraiser: Inferno.5.5 out of 10, generously rounded up to 6 for IMDb.