Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Bumpy Chip It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Stephen Abell This had the potential of being a decent Hellraiser sequel. For one, the story makes this a Hellraiser film. The trouble is that it doesn't go far enough and the direction is dreadful, the pace is too slow, and the scary atmosphere is non-existent.Reporter, Amy Klein (Wuhrer), is given a new assignment to track down the deaders. Her boss, Charles Richmond (Kunz), has been sent a video in which a woman is shot in the head after a strange ritual by a man named Winter (Rhys)... seconds later she's alive once again, with a huge exit wound in the side of her head... and she's immortal. In the course of her investigation into the new cult, Amy finds out that Winter is a descendant of L'Merchant...For some reason, Bota, who was responsible for the uneasy feeling throughout the last instalment of the Hellraiser saga, Hellseeker, failed to add the same atmosphere in this chapter. This is a shame as it would have been so much better with it... the story cries out for a sense of unease and creepiness, with a side order of fear. It's even forgivable that there are few Cenobites in the story, once again, as the ritual and the immortalisation is based around the L'Merchant configuration. However, the ritual itself should have been better thought out. It feels and appears weak and silly. For me, it was even quite annoying with all the shouting. This was a missed opportunity, and there are plenty more in the story.I have to admit, even though I'm not liking the new set of Hellraiser films, I have to give credit to the actors and actresses as they have been the strongest and best part of the movies. This is still the case in this flick too. The only flimsy character is Winter. Rhys gives a poor portrayal of a main character, though this too could be down to the writing and the direction. I would have tried to get Bruce Ramsey to play Winter as he did such a great job as the trio of Merchant's in Bloodline.What the film needed was a more detailed and thought out story, better direction with an influx of atmosphere, and slightly more Cenobites...Again, I would recommend the original four films over this one.

jacobjohntaylor1 This is the seventh Hell raiser movie. And it is not good. It is a big pile pooh pooh. The first Hell raiser is very scary. That is a great movie. Hell bound Hell raiser II is a great movie. It is very scary. Hell raiser III hell on earth is a great movie. It very scary. Hell raiser the Blood line is also very scary. That is great movie. The eighth Hell raiser movie Hell raiser hell world is better and that one is not very good. This movie is confusing and hard to fellow. That's pooh pooh. It is not scary at all is just give you a headache if you try to fellow it. It is a mess. Do not wast your money. Do not wast you time. Do not see this movie.

BA_Harrison Journalist Amy Klein (Kari Wuhrer) likes to live life on the edge, taking assignments that offer her danger and excitement; when she is given the opportunity to track down a bizarre cult in Romania, who are allegedly able to bring the dead back to life, she happily hops on the first plane from London to Bucharest (where, as it so happens, horror films can also be made on the cheap).Not long after her arrival, Amy tracks down the apartment of Marla (Georgina Rylance), one of the cult's members, where she finds the girl's dead body clutching a strange puzzle box. A video tape made by Marla warns Amy not to open the box, but the intrepid reporter doesn't listen and winds up having to face her demons (both metaphorically and literally)...Directed by Rick Bota, who also made Hellseeker (the previous film in the franchise), Deader is, for the most part, a confusing load of twaddle largely thanks to a script that was never originally intended to be part of the Hellraiser franchise, but which was adapted to accommodate the Lament Configuration, Pinhead and his Cenobite pals.To his credit, Bota does what he can with the resultant mess, actually managing to deliver a couple of surprisingly well-staged scenes—Amy trying to reach past Marla's corpse to get to a package, and Amy waking to discover that she has a knife buried in her back—but despite these memorable moments, some reasonable gore and a smattering of gratuitous nudity (including brief toplessness from Wuhrer), the film as a whole still continues the gradual downward slide for the series.4.5 out of 10, rounded up to 5 for IMDb.

suite92 The picture starts out in a large, run down flat in London which contains several abusers of alcohol and drugs. The mostly blocked daylight slowly stimulates wakening. Amy takes a few last snaps, and turns off her sound recorder. She leaves to go to the offices of a publication, 'London Underground'...after some considerable cleanup, that is. When she goes to meet her boss, Charles Richmond, the scent of patchouli oil precedes her. Amy and Charles have known each other for quite some time. Charles shows her a tape about 'deaders,' then gives her a new assignment concerning the accuracy of the tape.The tape has what at first seems to be a snuff film. A young woman shoots herself in the head with a heavy pistol. She seems quite dead. Winter, the leader of the forsaken-looking 'youth' that watched the head shot gives her mouth-to-mouth and the stricken woman revives.The envelope containing the tape had a return address. Charles sends Amy to Bucharest, Romania, where all the 'cool' Euro trash go for thrills. ('Amsterdam is so 90s.') Amy finds the return address in Bucharest. She finds the exact flat, discovers a body dead by suicide, a scrapbook of disturbing photographs, a puzzle cube, next steps to investigate, and a plea for help. Later, when she is in private, she runs her hands over the puzzle cube, and gets her first (hallucinatory) encounter with Pinhead after opening it partially. She keeps looking, then runs afoul of the local gendarmes. Charles bails her out, then exhorts her to keep after the story, again back in Bucharest.When she continues the investigation, her hallucinations get much worse. She manages to witness the act of 'resurrection.' She has her first chilling conversation with Winter, and gives him the puzzle cube. Winter claims he is trying to recover his inheritance. He attempts to recruit her in his war against Pinhead since she can open the puzzle cube.Pinhead, on the other hand, sees Winter (a descendant of the puzzle box's creator) as an interloper in his domain. Pinhead exhorts Amy to help him against Winter, since Pinhead is her only way out of her current mess.Can Amy find her way back to stability and reality in this metaphysical war? -----Scores------ Cinematography: 9/10 Well shot in daylight and in the dim night scenes.Sound: 10/10 Strong and effective.Acting: 10/10 This is, hands down, the best performance I've ever seen from Kari Wuhrer. Simon Kunz, Paul Rhys, Marc Warren, Georgina Raylance, and Doug Bradley were all quite good.Screenplay: 7/10 A little weak on exposition, but not by much. On the whole, well-told.SFX: 8/10 Best in the series so far.