GetPapa
Far from Perfect, Far from Terrible
Ogosmith
Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
Jayden-Lee Thomson
One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.
Ezmae Chang
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
paulclaassen
So the film is essentially about the evil men do, and about your past coming back to haunt you. It is well set-up, but we only realize this during the twist ending. There are indeed a few rather silly 'mistakes'. For instance, when the detective is handed a tape by a stranger, he watches it in the restaurant where anyone can see. Seriously?? Nice work, detective! (yeah right!). Also, why would the Cenobites bother making a tape, or was this all in his mind too? Craig Sheffer tries his best to deliver, but the film seems to move in circles at times and his acting feels like deja vu. His character almost remains the same throughout - corrupt/vulnerable corrupt/vulnerable repeat.
andrecarmoporto
After seeing the first movie I bacame a fan of the series. However, the 3rd, 4th and mainly the 5th film were a disapointment... so my expectations on Hellraiser Inferno weren't very hight.
Thankfully I was wrong. This movie is completely different and innovating to this serie. More like a psychological thriller and not only the "killing demons", this movie make you suspect and try to guess the story, make you go from suspected to paranoid and, mos importantly, make you stay glued to the plot.
A change like this was, in my opinion, all that was needed.
Enjoy the film!!
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.
KineticSeoul
This seemed like a cheap "Silent Hill" movie than a actual "Hellraiser" sequel. It's probably the most psychedelic entry compared to the previous 4, but it lacked the "Hellraiser" elements. It's like this was suppose to be a grisly investigation movie with hallucinations with Pinhead thrown in sometimes. Maybe a alternate storyline than a companion piece with Pinhead in it. The story is about a unfaithful husband who is a cop trying to find a missing kid and murders that is taking place by some sort of faceless man. This might be a alright psychological psychedelic thriller, but doesn't really seem like a "Hellraiser" movie is all. Some say this one and "Hellseeker" makes a good connection with the 4th installment, but I don't know about that. This is more of a psychological horror thriller than a horror slasher, even if the psychological aspect aren't that in depth. I am not sure if this plot takes place, before "Hellraiser: Bloodline" but if it does, there is less fear here in my opinion. Overall this would have probably worked if it focused more on being a "Silent Hill" movie.5.6/10