Review of Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992) by James H — 07 Sep 2010

A shockingly painful pile of cock, full of the pseudo-intellectual dialogue you'd expect a Marilyn Manson fan to churn out after they'd tried to read some de Sade. One can respond that this is a Hellraiser movie and we only watch them for the gore and not the dialogue, but I'd disagree.

The original is good because of 1) The gore, 2) the originality, 3) the fact that it's slightly more intelligent than your average movie. The cenobites were hardly in it, but it didn't really matter because they were minor characters in the saga of the dirty nastiness going on in the attic.

Hellraiser 2 turned the low budget, high quality original into something a bit more like Legend or Krull with some shoddy big special effects. This sacks the whole thing off and goes "Meh, let's just have loads of Pinhead in it.

Oh and lets shove some new cenobites in to keep people happy". Sadly, they've created some substantially crap baddies: one who has a camera for an eye, another who has CDs stuck in his head and someone with a piston in his skull.

Oooooh, terrifying. This film takes the leap pver the shark that the 2nd only promised and harking towards the repeated leapfrog over it that the subsequent sequels would promise.