Stars: Doug Bradley, Terry FarrellBudget: $5million
Directed By: Tony Randel
At the end of the last movie a rotating pillar came from the bloodied mattress. That pillar has some how turned into a artistic piece, a bronzed work of art. J P Monroe a rich nightclub owner comes across this and buys it for his personal collection.
Unknown to him Pinhead and his world war 1 counterpart have been split since the last film. his demonic form imprisoned in said pillar. The puzzle box has also been embedded in the pillar too. Joey a young reporter witnesses a young club goer ripped apart by magical hooked chains.
She traces the death back to Monroe's nightclub the boiler room. She meets Terri a young ex of Monroe's who has stolen the box from the pillar.
Joey traces the history of the puzzle box and we see her view videos of when Kirsty was in the mental institute. She learns of the Cenobites through this also about the power of the puzzle box.
Earlier Monroe had splattered some blood onto the pillar after a rat bite, this obviously gives Pinhead just enough power to devour the skin then body of one of the girls J P has just slept with. Pinhead coerces J P to get more girls, J P can have his pleasures of the flesh then he can eat their flesh.
Joey is then contacted by Elliot the human side of the demon warning her that the demon is now just pure evil. If he ever got free he would wreak hell upon the earth. They formulate a plan to reunite both spirits and then send them both back to hell as one.
Back at the club Pinhead breaks free and does indeed wreak havoc killing everyone including Monroe. Terri is even tricked to come back there with a nasty fake answer machine message, as well as Joeys cameraman. Everyone apart from Joey dies, Pinhead resurrecting most of the latter as new Cenobites. Each one embodying a power/ability they had in real life, DJ throws razor sharp CD's and the barman throws flammable cocktails which he spits fire upon.
Joey escapes each one of these through the streets as the police are killed by the inhuman demons. She seeks help in a church from a priest who doesn't believe until he sees the travesty that Pinhead is, trying to rebuke the evil just makes Pinhead laugh. Joey runs once again while the priest is 'dealt with' running to a construction site.
she tries to figure out the box and just as the Cenobites start torturing her she manages to configure it enough to send the weaker ones back. Her father appears telling her she did a good job and he should take the box for safe keeping. It is in fact good old pin nogging in disguise.
But she has managed to do what Elliot needed bring him to his realm. He starts to merge with him while Joey breaks free of a machine that was turning her into a Cenobite. That's where i end it for now.
this one again has the same flaw as the last bigger budget less story more flash and pizzazz. Again this not bad by any means as some bigger budget film series's suffer from jumping the shark by a third entry, its just the Hellraiser series does unfortunately go from bad to worse, film to film.
The third film is just plain unadulterated fun and i love the new cenobites, a running theme in the next film too. THN awards Hellraiser 3, 3 out of 5 stars
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