Ok, imagine this plot summary:
A serial cheater whose wife has inherited a fortune plans to have her killed. She finds out about it, and murders him, his mistresses, and his accomplice. But that's the twist. What we see from his perspective is a surreal version where he has killed her and may be responsible for all the deaths, but, in reality, he is in hell and his experiences are just a means to torture his soul.
That could possibly be an ok movie if it had a good script, director, and cast! Instead, someone saw the draft and decided to jam it into the Hellraiser franchise. The writer obviously had trouble making that work, or they were just lazy, because the Hellraiser elements fit like a hippo in an elevator.
Pinhead and the rest of the cenobites appear here and there, mostly as hallucinations. When the twist is revealed, it goes on and on with incomprehensible flashbacks and detailed exposition that tries to shoehorn the Lament Configuration into the story. It's very close to making sense, but only if you ignore the whole Pinhead part. Since when does Pinhead use vague psychological discomfort to torture people? Sure, at the very end he does the flying chains thing, but what was the point of everything leading up to that? Was it to show Trevor the folly of his ways? Pinhead doesn't care about that, he just wants to inflict maximum physical pain on anyone who summons him. There's the same nonsense with Kirsty's character, who had been a grounded character for the first three movies. Now she's killing 5 people in horribly brutal ways?
And I have to say that Dean Winters is one of the funniest character actors now, but he was ridiculously miscast in this. I'm not sure if he's capable of many facial expressions that don't involve a slight smirk, so his reaction to some heavy duty horrors rarely rises above bemusement. It's actually kind of funny in the scenes where he's face-to-face with a cenobite, and he looks like he's thinking, "what's up with this idiot?"
Anyway, skip this one unless you're really bored and you're trying to watch all the Hellraiser movies.
A serial cheater whose wife has inherited a fortune plans to have her killed. She finds out about it, and murders him, his mistresses, and his accomplice. But that's the twist. What we see from his perspective is a surreal version where he has killed her and may be responsible for all the deaths, but, in reality, he is in hell and his experiences are just a means to torture his soul.
That could possibly be an ok movie if it had a good script, director, and cast! Instead, someone saw the draft and decided to jam it into the Hellraiser franchise. The writer obviously had trouble making that work, or they were just lazy, because the Hellraiser elements fit like a hippo in an elevator.
Pinhead and the rest of the cenobites appear here and there, mostly as hallucinations. When the twist is revealed, it goes on and on with incomprehensible flashbacks and detailed exposition that tries to shoehorn the Lament Configuration into the story. It's very close to making sense, but only if you ignore the whole Pinhead part. Since when does Pinhead use vague psychological discomfort to torture people? Sure, at the very end he does the flying chains thing, but what was the point of everything leading up to that? Was it to show Trevor the folly of his ways? Pinhead doesn't care about that, he just wants to inflict maximum physical pain on anyone who summons him. There's the same nonsense with Kirsty's character, who had been a grounded character for the first three movies. Now she's killing 5 people in horribly brutal ways?
And I have to say that Dean Winters is one of the funniest character actors now, but he was ridiculously miscast in this. I'm not sure if he's capable of many facial expressions that don't involve a slight smirk, so his reaction to some heavy duty horrors rarely rises above bemusement. It's actually kind of funny in the scenes where he's face-to-face with a cenobite, and he looks like he's thinking, "what's up with this idiot?"
Anyway, skip this one unless you're really bored and you're trying to watch all the Hellraiser movies.