A tough basket case
detective named Joseph Thorne (Craig
Sheffer) has everything he can imagine. A wife, a
child and a good job.
However, he seems to enjoy picking up
prostitutes and doing cocaine with them.
He also goes to a home of where a
sacrififce happened during a satanic
cult. There he spots the Cenobites puzzle
shaped box and sitting on top of it was a
candle with a child's finger inside of it
and apparently the child was still alive.
So he takes the puzzle box with him
Well one day Joseph tells his wife that
he is on a mission and goes to a hotel
with a prostitute and has sex and cocaine
with her.
Afterwards at the hotel he toys with the
box and suddenly he is in a child's room
with the child crying for help and is
harrassed by female looking cenobites and
their leader Pinhead (Doug Bradley).
He realises that it's all a dream or is
it?
Next day at the office he gets a phone
call from the hooker as she is freaking
out suddenly he hears her gurgling a
chocking to death and the phone is
disconnected.
He goes to the hotel and spots her corpse
hanging in the shower with a cut off
finger.
From there on he questions people and any
kinds of information as he tries to hunt
for the child.
But he suddenly sees hallucinations of
Cenobites slaughtering people he
encountered with and no one believes him.
However, the murders he sees do happen
but are unsolved with showing cut off
fingers of the victims as Joseph is
trapped in Pinhead's game of hell.
Alriiiiiiight!!!!!!
Another sequel to this wonderful series.
This film seemed totally different than
from the rest and the Cenobites aren't as
menacing as they used to be.
The film is also way more mysterious
wondering when Pinhead is going to raise
hell again which makes the film special
too.
Suddenly the pieces all come together
towards the end of the film and why this
is all happening.
There is a good message about karma in
the film.
The acting is very
good nonetheless as Craig Sheffer
steals the film with his outrageous
performance and plays an original role
but I always found him to be a versatile
actor as he's calm when he needs to be
then tough and nasty when he needs to be
and showing a paranoid side to him as
well.
Doug Bradley is most original
with his reprising role as Pinhead than
in any of the other Hellraiser
flicks as he even portrays a cowbioy too
which is very different. He was
brilliant.
A corpse is on the
floor
A corpse of a hooker is impaled in a
shower of a hotel
A decapitated head of a woman is found in
a bed
An ice cream truck drivers back is torn
open on a video tape
There's a pool of blood from underneath a
door
Two bodies are frozen and then cracked to
pieces
Eyes are plucked out of two elderly
people
Fingers are cut off
Scott Derrickson
takes on the directing hat for this
project and I must say he does very well
for this piece.
It's nothing like Clive Barker's
directing or with any of the others as he
is very original with his work making the
film very different
He directs everyone terrifically
especially lead character actor Craig
Sheffer.
Scott offers a mellow and
interesting scene with Sheffer
and Sasha Barese as detective
and hooker in a hotel room.
There's a really intense fighting scene
with Craig Sheffer smacking Nicolas
Sadler's character in an ice cream
truck which looks very well done.
I loved the scene when he is beat up by
two asian cowboys which is another
hallucination sequence in the film.
But I love it when Doug Bradley's
character invades the home of Sheffer's
when he confronts him all the sins he's
created and showing him a flashback
memory of his childhood days and then
being judged but I don't want to give it
away. This was Scott's best
directing scenes though and it's a real
classic.
Walter Werzowa seems
to do fine with his composing although
it's not as strongly composed as the
previous one's but still quite good and
also had some nice smooth bluesy music
during the hotel scene with Sheffer
and Barese
in the hotel room.
We get a
nice smooth bluesy dsong at the end of
the film by an artist named Mod:1
featuring Lisbeth Scott with the
song "From Eden"
Pinhead [On the other phone
receiver to Joseph]: Six fingers....
Six murders.... Only four fingers left...
You know who I am detective
Joseph: Oooh let me
guess... you're the engineer... I got
your message. I understand your fucking
game. My wife and kid.... WHAT DO YOU
WANT FROM ME???
Pinhead[On the other
phone receiver to Joseph]:
I want you to go home detective. Time to
go home.
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