A spine-tingling thriller, Hellraiser: Inferno is the next inescapably terrifying chapter in the heart-stopping Hellraiser series! It's the powerful story of a shady L.A. detective who finds himself lost in a darkly nightmarish world of evil when he solves the mysterious puzzle box that releases the diabolical demon, Pinhead! As those around him begin to meet tragic fates, he sets out to conquer the horrifying Pinhead and escape eternal hell!
(2000) On the plus side, Inferno did introduce a couple of new cenobites in the form of two grotesque (but morbidly attractive!) female cenobites who seemed very sexually charged, and Chatter Box is back! Remember him from the first two movies? Eventually it comes to Joseph's (the bad cop) attention that the perpetrator of these grisly crimes is a man known as `The Engineer,' and the old cat and mouse bullshit begins, although at times the audience is confused as to who is the cat and who is the mouse. Inferno puts a new twist on part of the story line from Bloodline, when Dr. Paul Merchant lets the cenobites out and is then detained before he could capture them again. Here, Joseph lets them out, but doesn't know it, and then he begins to think that he is seeing things whenever he encounters one of the cenobites. Joseph is led around so easily that it is even harder to feel any sympathy for him. After learning that `The Engineer' is said to know everything about every cop on the force, he leaves his wife and daughter at home, telling them not to leave! Was anyone surprised when 'The Engineer' went for them? And don't even get me started on Pinhead. You look at the cover box for every single Hellraiser movie, and you see Pinhead and usually little else. He had great roles in parts III and IV, but here he is in the film for a matter of minutes! And you could count those minutes on one hand! Maybe they kept him out of the film so much because they screwed up his make-up so badly. I don't know what happened, but they got his look entirely wrong, and then they made him a good guy! He shows up to rip Joseph's face to shit in a nightmare, then shows up at the end to tell Joseph that he is not the killer he is looking for, then gives him advice on how to find the real killer. "Oh, by the way, Joseph, sorry for mutilating then murdering your family." Fucking stupid! There is a reason that this movie went straight to video, and this becomes very clear when you watch the movie. This is something that is really only meant for hardcore Hellraiser fans, but at the same time, these are the people who are going to be the most disappointed by it because of its huge lack of the traditional Hellraiser feel. It's got cenobites and suffering and all kinds of ghastly stuff in it, but it can still only be called a Hellraiser film because of the cenobites and because they got Pinhead to make a quick cameo appearance. There is little else of value here, and it is sure to lead to disappointment and maybe even a feeling of alienation among Hellraiser fans. I only hope that they make at least one more sequel sometime in the future, because you just can't end a legendary horror series with a terrible installment like this.
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