Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005) (V)

User Rating:

4.3/10   

Director:

Rick Bota

Writers (WGA):

Clive Barker (characters)
Joel Soisson (story)

Release Date:

6 September 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

Burning With Evil.

Plot:

Pinhead returns to terrorize computer hackers that have opened a virtual Lament Configuration on the website Hellworld.com.

Plot Keywords:

Party | Hell | Internet | Pinhead | Computer

Cast

Lance Henriksen	...	The Host
Katheryn Winnick	...	Chelsea
Christopher Jacot	...	Jake
Khary Payton	...	Derrick
Henry Cavill	...	Mike
Anna Tolputt	...	Allison
Victor McGuire	...	Police Officer #1
Doug Bradley	...	Pinhead
Stelian Urian	...	Adam
Magdalena Tun	...	Derrick's Sexy Dancer
Gavril Patrv	...	Rude Guy (as Gavril Patru)
Desiree Malonga	...	Mike's Masked Dancer (as Malonga Desiree)
Carl V. Dupré	...	Bartender (as Carl Dupre)
Catalina Alexandru	...	Sister Ursala
Costi Mirica	...	Police Officer Victim

Also Known As:

Hellraiser - Tromos sto diadyktio (Greece) [el]
Hellraiser 8 (Sweden) (TV title) [sv]
Hellraiser VIII (Italy) [it]
Hellraiser: O kosmos tis Kolasis (Greece) (TV title) [el]

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violence/gore, sexual content and language.

Runtime:

91 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

Singapore:R21 | Netherlands:16 | Finland:K-18 (self applied) | Iceland:16 | Brazil:18 | Australia:MA (2008) | Australia:MA | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Bucharest, Romania

Company:

Miramax Films

Trivia:

Filmed back-to-back with Hellraiser: Deader (2005) (V).

Goofs:

Continuity: At the beginning when they are all driving to the castle in a terrain vehicle, the license plate is a Romanian number from Bucharest (B-0...) and when they reach the castle in the night the plate is an American one.

Quotes:

[the Host opens the Lament Configuration and faces Pinhead, Bound, and Chatterer]
Pinhead: Welcome. Welcome to Hell.
The Host: [chuckling] This is not happening.
Pinhead: Seeing is believing. I should have come for you a long time ago.
The Host: Hellworld. There's no Hellworld. It doesn't exist.
Pinhead: Your son was quite the prodigy. He opened the gateway to Hell. But you never believed yourself, did you?

Movie Connections:

Featured in Ticket to Hellworld: A Behind-the-Scenes Look (2005) (V)

Soundtrack:

Look Who's Standing Tall

Cinematic Excrement

This movie was terrible. I can't believe all the good reviews it got. This is easily the worst movie ever to bear the name Hellraiser, and if it weren't for Lance Henriksen, it wouldn't have even been a 2 in my book.

The acting ranged from mediocre (Chelsea) to downright abysmal (Jake), with the lone exception being Henriksen in his usual calm and menacing demeanor. The dialogue was clichéd, and Pinhead was turned into a crude mixture of Freddy Krueger and Jason Vorhees. He is supposed to be an arbiter, a ferryman to the other-worldly pleasures of the Hellraiser world, not some mindless killer of teenie-boppers. I couldn't care about any of the characters, which is what so painfully divides this movie from the 1st, which was built upon its characters. This is like Scream, except without any meaningful attempt at suspense or scares. The whole movie was so damn predictable that I was able to call every surprise.

I could tell though, before any of drivel that passed as "horror" in a franchise that isn't even supposed to be horror, that this movie would suck based on the Pinhead shirt one of the characters was wearing. That and a guy in a cenobite mask removed all attempts at a dignified motion picture before it even really began.

What disappoints me so much though is not the crappy acting, the swiss-cheese plot, or the sheer failure to achieve even mediocrity. Its how far this movie has fallen form the 1st or the 5th. Hell, Deader was worlds better than this, and even 3 and 4 had at least good quotes. This movie is an embarrassment, and Clive Barker should be infuriated at how his once-noble franchise has been mutilated.