Review of Hellraiser: Deader (2005) by The N — 14 Jul 2016

Each Hellraiser sequel seems worse than the previous. This one is only helped by the presence of Kari Wuhrer, who I've always liked, even though she's never actually appeared in a good film, unless you count "Beastmaster 2" or "Anaconda.

" Like the two previous Hellraiser films, the script for this film was originally written as a non-Hellraiser horror story and was later decided to add in The Cenobites and other Hellraiser elements to make it fit within the franchise.

The story here involved a journalist, Wuhrer, investigating a group who clam to be able to bring back the dead and is slowly sucked into their strange and secret world, which involved the mysterious puzzle box and the deadly Cenobites.

Meh. Nothing good here except for some halfway decent special effects and Doug Bradley continues to be good as Pinhead, at least for the the little amount of screen time that he and the other Cenobites have.

Don't bother watching this one unless you feel compelled to be able to say you've seen all of the Hellraiser films.