Compared with the scores of hellishly terrible horror-sequels, this was actually quite enjoyable.

This is the most enjoyable of the sequels. It actually has explosions and stuff and some marvellously silly new cenobites.

great movie

Yup. Right here. This is where the Hellraiser movies started to suck. At least it has some cool gore effects, though.

Cub reporter (and intrepid Gothic heroine) is hankering after a hot story when she witnesses a man explode on a hospital gurney, with electrified chains standing straight out from his body. Surely there must be a story there. Not much of a one, as it turns out, but a lot more explosions and mayhem and sticky-icky. Paula Marshall has some nice moments as a throwback to a Sixties go-go dancer.

"For all the blasphemies and British accent, Pinhead is just a sub-Freddy goon, and the ambiguities and perversities Barker is so fond of have been neatly tidied-up. This is the sort of picture teenagers in malls in Akron, Ohio might understand - a good horror sequel, and that's all."

This forgoes much of II's sinister surrealism but provides Pinhead with far more of a showcase. What the pic lacks in plot invention is more than compensated for by lots of colorful carnage, completely with some effectively revolting FX work (courtesy of Bob Keen). Especially impressive are a club-set slaughterfest with a mega body count and a scene that sees a Pinhead victim instantly filleted before our very eyes.

The cheese factor has been added, but it's not that bad yet.

We get lots of Pinhead and some great imagery in the church and elsewhere, but he becomes a completely different character here, as if he realized that he was competing with Freddy all of the sudden. Even though there is more killing, the gore is for the most part poorly done and outright silly in places. The new cenobites are unimaginative designs - the writer just looked around his house for things to embed in people's faces. There is no "cube keeper" in this one, which made me sad.

Wyjatkowo krwawa i brutalna odslona Hellraisera. Seria zatracila swoj pierwotny klimat, ale wciaz oglada sie to milo.

Gets rid of the disturbing, making-you-feel-uncomfortable moments and trades them in for ridiculous developments and terrible characters. Oh, and I guess Pinhead is now both a statue and a senseless killing machine? Ugh.

the characters are simply horrible, and acting is about as bad. in spite of it's failings in pretty much every aspect this still churns out the scary moments, cheap thrills, and great gore that you would expect from barker based films. pinhead's always been one of my favorite villains, but sadly he doesn't have the screen time to reciprocate my appreciation.

Quite honestly the most insanely bad thing ever. It's the worst, most simultaneously cheap-looking and mindlessly-blockbustery of the Hellraisers. And NYC has apparently only 9 residents, which is interesting.

Sometimes there's no good reason for liking a movie that just isn't very good. I could never explain why but this and Graveyard Shift fall into that category.

Fucking terrible. A mockery of the first two films.

Why?

After the eventually pointless first sequel, this is redundant to the point it's not worth having a deeper review on - one of many sequels in existence that was cobbled together sloppily for commerce only. When your biggest ideas include a Cenobite who throws CDs like razor-sharp Frisbees, who belongs to a parody not a sequel to a serious first film, and can't even make that work the whole product falls to pieces.

The story totally sucked. They should have stayed on the same path they were on making the first 2 hellraisers. There were some interesting scenes and overal not a bad gore movie (although I hate a movie without a 'story' you can follow).

Was this the one with the CD player cenobite? lol

A rather insipid progression of the hellraiser series. As inconsistent as II, with baddies being crowbarred in and then back out of a frankly dull film

Im only giving this a 66 because 1 ima horror fan and 2 i love hellraiser but this is still not a great movie, bad script, cheesy one liners and reasonably bad acting make this one of the lesser hellraiser films. Still some decent bits, For the fans.

Quite enjoyable really. It's really cute that much of this movie goes on in Hell, and it works.

Very poor.

Pinhead = God