adonis98-743-186503
An investigative reporter must send the newly unbound Pinhead and his legions back to Hell. Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth is definitely far better than most of it's really dumb sequels that followed but it's also nowhere near as good as the great 2 first films and despite some pretty good visuals and make up as anyone would expect from this series? The storyline was just not that great and pretty damn disappointing to say the least plus i was kind of disappointed that the girl from the first 2 did no return but then again? Why turn her into Laurie Strode? (5/10)
paulclaassen
The acting is not great (quite bad, actually) and the actors are not very convincing, especially Kevin Bernhardt as club owner JP Monroe. Even Doug Bradley as Pinhead is not convincing. Pinhead doesn't even look scary. On the contrary, he looks quite serene and sweet, actually. Pinhead is supposed to be this great demon, but he relies on mortals for help. Really?? The plot is ridiculous. Why is Pinhead now killing everyone in sight and not only the ones who opened the box? What's the purpose of the box then? The film became a slasher for no reason. Nothing about this film makes any sense. Why have the rules changed? Why are Pinhead and Captain Elliot Spencer separated if they're the same person? Oh, and what a silly ending...
Realrockerhalloween
Hellraiser takes an alternate turn in the series focusing on a reporter caught in an epidemic of people around town being subjected to death by chain's and must solve the mystery with the help of a club girl.It was actually quite decent from effects, music and atmosphere of doom all across the land.A few continuation errors could've been patched up like Pinhead now being the king of hell, the stone statue from part 2 appearing in The store instead of hell and his minions coming back to life without rhyme or reason.The opening scene was a nice throw back to the first showing Pinhead before he turned and how he became the soulless monster he was at present.Yet he seems more humorless like he can't contain a bad joke and loses a lot of the menace that made him scary. Instead of offering justice he punishes anyone near him or in his vicinity betraying the rules set up for him.It tried to be a true Hellraiser film that revels the first two keeping the sex appeal, but the gore is tame and doesn't ring true to the epic blood bath of the first two. Even though Tina's skinning and the club massacre come very close.I like Joey and Tina as a fuel but it feels like an unused script staring Kristy and Tiffany yet they couldn't get them back.Its watchable to any die hard Hellraiser fan, but it doesn't have the ingredients that made the first two a horror master piece.Try it out and see for yourself.
tomgillespie2002
In 1987, Clive Barker brought to the cinema screen a vision of horror and degradation that was tightly wound around a fascinating mythology of sadomasochistic demons from another world who questioned our own desire for the ultimate pleasure. It is no understatement to say Hellraiser changed horror, and its inspiration is still clear to see in modern horror, although none I've seen possess the ability to truly get under your skin (but thankfully not rip it apart) as Barker's film does. A franchise always beckoned and its first sequel, Hellbound, tried to develop its universe further but ended up a good-looking mess.Hell on Earth signalled the series' rapid decline in quality and imagination. Ambitious young reporter Joey Summerskill (Terry Farrell) is searching for that one big story to help project her career forward. While she wraps up a dull story at a hospital, a man covered in blood with metal chains protruding from his body held up by an unseen entity is rushed in, and is brutally ripped apart just as he is placed on the operating table. Knowing this could be her big break, she tracks down the woman who fled the hospital, Terri (Paula Marshall), and discovers her at a club ran by a slimeball named J.P. Monroe (Kevin Bernhardt), who has recently purchased a stone pillar possessing the trapped soul of Cenobite Pinhead (Doug Bradley).Hellbound, for all its flaws, at least attempted to further establish the mythology, giving us glimpses of Pinhead before he opened the lament configuration. Although Pinhead appears in his human form, dressed in World War I attire, we learn little about his history, and combined with the horror icon's inexplicable new found love of quips and shouting, Hell on Earth feels completely disconnected from the films that came before. It's also cheap- looking, in particular a scene which sees Joey fleeing from Pinhead and his fresh-out-the-oven new Cenobite recruits is badly edited, consisting of feeble explosions while the unconvincing Farrell screams repeatedly. Surely an embarrassment for Barker, Hell on Earth contorted the idea of a visionary into money-grubbing franchise.
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