Hellraiser: Inferno (2000)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Don't listen to the negative reviews

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

So the film is essentially about the evil men do, and about your past coming back to haunt you. It is well set-up, but we only realize this during the twist ending. There are indeed a few rather silly 'mistakes'. For instance, when the detective is handed a tape by a stranger, he watches it in the restaurant where anyone can see. Seriously?? Nice work, detective! (yeah right!). Also, why would the Cenobites bother making a tape, or was this all in his mind too? Craig Sheffer tries his best to deliver, but the film seems to move in circles at times and his acting feels like deja vu. His character almost remains the same throughout - corrupt/vulnerable corrupt/vulnerable repeat.

Though I haven't seen number four, about the only HR that wasn't an R, this is a refreshing Hellraiser, but not for better. Shady cop (Sheffer- who's really good) finds his life falling apart, after taking something from a grisly murder scene? Guess what? He's experiencing a lot of delusions or are some real? His colleague (Turturro- a straight shooter for once) becomes really concerned, as so does Sheffer's family. I found this Firth HR exciting and bloody, but a lot of puff, where a lot of the story isn't explained, where we're the ones who have to piece the puzzle. Those demons in Sheffer's delusions, I thought were stupid, where a lot of stuff in this one doesn't make sense. But it's Sheffer who coolly steers this bad HR. James Remar was fantastic as a shrink, who could be Sheffer's one salvation, while Nicholas Sadler, an actor who's not used enough, was very good as a coke head, slumming it out in an ice cream van. This one has a few nasty themes, but is still is an exciting watch, where Sheffer really does hos role justice, and makes the film watchable. It was a relief to see Pinhead, in his most minor of HR screen time. May'be he too is ashamed of this HR. You will be short changed with this Hellraiser, mostly cause of it's very hazy told story, and it's stupidity versus corniness It feels less a Hellraiser, than all of them, esp, too when you consider Pinhead's almost, non pivotal role.

Saw a few clips of this film & just had to watch it when collecting the Hellraiser Franchise on DVD!This has to be my favourite out of all of the Hellraisers I've seen! It was dark, sinister, had a great story-line & it was easy to follow too! It focused more on the story than the cenobites & Pinhead himself, but that didn't matter as the vibe from the film & the creepy visuals along with the gory effects added & improvised well. The film's premise is about a crooked cop named Joseph who is a selfish arrogant man who cheats on his wife, breaks rules & manipulates people to cover for him & portrays them. He's an arse full stop, until he meets his match & find the Lament Configuration Puzzle Box & unleashes evil into the world. Onto him that is, & here's were his world of lying, cheating & portrayal come crashing down & catching up with him!The film had some creepy visuals likes I said. Along with it being very dark & sinister & better looking than the others especially the first 3 (or 2?). But yeah, the film had everything in it which made it great! It had a very gloomy feel to it also & lured you in as it progressed.I'd give this film a strong 9.5/10! It was dark, sinister gloomy, bloody, gory & just all round the best Hellraiser film to date!

Getting involved in a strange case, a police detective gradually comes to realize that he's far more involved in the crimes due to Pinhead and his demons and tries to stop it before it consumes him and his family.This one is an utterly abysmal and barely worthwhile effort that doesn't have a lot of redeeming values. About the only thing that really works is the tension built up over the Cenobites and their few appearances here which are quite chilling in most cases. From the quick-shot glances of the faceless demon to the multitude of psychological tortures inflicted throughout the scenes in the hospital room or his flashback into his childhood home, these scenes with the Cenobites showing off their psychotic tendencies and mind-games are incredibly enjoyable and really seem to come from a better movie altogether. That's mainly due to the massive amount of flaws present which are so damaging and detrimental that there's hardly anything about this that's worthwhile. The biggest issue here is this one spends so much time on the investigation and his mental stability that the film doesn't even feel like part of the rest of the series. There's so little time here with the creatures here who have at most five minutes of screen-time that their presence is wasted on such a film, so there's barely a real connection here to the series in this manner anyway. Those scenes focusing on his descent into madness are some of the most boring, dragged out scenes in the series that they just don't have any real more or suspense to them continually appearing for about twenty second sand causing him to go off on a long tangent that just makes for an utterly boring and cringe-worth series of scenes. In the midst of all this searching, we get useless scenes just to show that he has a tortured family life, then it's back to the investigation, being almost as maddening as the search. To make it even worse, the investigation scenes, which took up the majority of the movie, were just criminally slow and boring, and it can be pretty hard to see this one all the way through. Those issues by themselves would give this one a seriously bad name, but then it throws on top of those issues one more act here with the heinous factor of using the entire plot as a morality tale just makes this one unbearable. Not only is the choice to do this incredibly insipid and wasteful, but the entire purpose for including it is outright illogical as this was never a part of the series to begin with as they were always about punishing people so the need to teach him a lesion despite being the perfect person to torment makes this the single biggest flaw in here and that makes this one near impossible to come back from.Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, Nudity, drug use and children-in-jeopardy.