Review of Hellraiser: Deader (2005) by Justin A — 31 Jan 2014

Supposedly, they make new Hellraiser movies every few years so Miramax doesn't lose the rights. That would explain why we get sequels like this that feels like it was a completely different script before having Pinhead thrown in just to make it another Hellraiser movie.

Again, this is another "mystery". Though there isn't much mystery to this entry as they basically tell you everything at the beginning. I must say I enjoy how EVERY SCENE ends with the main character waking up at a different location.

I wish I had kept count, but I swear almost every scene was a dream. Maybe I could buy that if it went all Hellraiser Inferno by having the main character reliving everything because she is already dead.

That's not quite the case though. The character is dead, but not dead dead. Just sorta dead. I don't really know. The movie was hard to follow because it just felt like a series of random events.

It was boring, but the two sequels before this weren't much better, so it's not like I hated this movie. If anything, at least the acting is seeming to get better as the series progresses. That's a shocker.

I kind of like how they tied it in to Hellraiser 4, even though that may not be a good thing. It was only a small part, but at least it shows that maybe all these movies do kind of tie in. Maybe? I don't know.

It's forgettable and nothing to write home about. I am actually a bit disappointed because I expected so much worse at this point, and instead they're delivering underwhelming and under par. I wonder how much they pay Doug Bradley to be in these movies.

He may have had more screen time towards the end of this movie than in 5 and 6, but still not much. I can't recommend this one either, unless you're skipping around the series. Then maybe I would say it's better than 5 and 6, but only slightly, and that really doesn't mean anything.