When you said "he's so seductive" at 17:10 I've always thought the exact same thing. I remember the first time I saw that, I had made a note to myself that pinhead is a master of seduction. It's kind of his whole thing really. He even manages to make pain sound tantalizing
Man, ain't nothing like being 12 and watching this movie is in the middle of the night while surfing HBO (I think?) and getting scared by my first Hellraiser movie
Barely remember this one, which is surprising since Terri Farrell and Paula Marshall looked fantastic here. BTW, I'm an American and I wasn't insulted. Keep up the good work gents!
I love Hellraiser, 1-4. The others not so much. I never noticed till this review the director Anthony Hickox makes a cameo on the tv in one shot. Awesome reviews Gary and Iain. I'm a new subscriber and now a huge fan of the channel. Keep up the great work!
The best thing I got from this movie was that I finally found out where the short sample kicking off Entombed's awesome Wolverine Blues album came from🤘 They also released an EP around the same time with an instrumental track simply called Hellraiser, with adaptations of the movie score and a bunch of samples from the first movie🙂
Interestingly, the statue at the end is a real statue called, il Disco. It sat in Charlotte, NC outside the NCNB (later Nationsbank) building forever. It might still be outside the Bank of America building. It used to spin. As a child, my mom would take me by the disc to give it a good spin on the way to the library. Sadly, il Disco injured some people and the city cemented it in place. The interior of the building was very boring, sadly.
When you bring up Anthony Hickox, I always think of this movie and of the Warlock sequel. And speaking of Warlock, there's another decent horror movie which might be worth a review.
I do wonder where this franchise would have gone had Julia (too bad Claire Higgins didn’t want to reprise the role.) been made to be more of the main villain as opposed to Pinhead/The Cenobites. (I know Julia and Frank were the true villains but they are both pushed aside for the Cenobites to be made into/thought to be villains.)
I just watched this with captions on and realized Pinhead says "THE shadow of my former troops", not "A shadow of my former troops", so he wasn't degrading the new cenobites too bad.
I do have to say that I think the one guy is focusing too much on the slasher movie aspect. Hellraiser was never supposed to be a typical slasher, or a slasher at all. its why pinhead doesnt just kill willy nilly ( except in 3 which most people have an issue with because of 1. bad cenobite designs, and 2. it seemed to far outside Pinheads personality)
The major problem I have with 3 is they turned pinhead into a slasher It was of main problem I also had with predator 2 they turned predator into basically Jason
Hardly, thought this was pretty bad compared to the first two, honestly feel like this is where it started going downhill, this is where they really started deviating from Barker's source material and moving more in the direction of typical slasher tropes 🤷🏻
Yea this movie killed the franchise for me. In the book it and in the first two movies it seems like the story was more of a lovecraftian/sci fi horror; the cenobites were inter dimensional beings, but in this movie and subsequent ones they really sort of doubled down with the “hell” being a literal Christian hell. I always hated that because it felt so anodyne and predictable.
I get what your saying but for me 5 killed the franchise atleast the first 4 are hell raiser movies 5 up till the last 3 weren’t even really hell raiser movies they just slapped pinhead into them
I do like the connection this sequel tries to make by tying up ends for Elliot spencer but it really is mediocre. The cenobite designs here are dated. The only one to look fairly decent are Barby. Also what's with Gerry Lively's camerawork in this film? So many wide lens closeups. Great review
I recently watched this movie for the first time and i guess i kinda enjoyed it. I liked all the scenes you did except for that big boiler room massacre, it just got to silly to fast. I really liked the first half hour with the statue and Monroe and i was really excited to see him bring girls to pinhead, but he brings like one girl, he gets knocked out and they both get turned into cenobites and boom pinhead is free and i was just massively dissapointed.. they really fucked up a great concept in my opinion. I also kinda liked the idea of cenobites walking the street and just nobody being able to stop them, but to bad the only people on the freakin streets are 3 dumb police officers who get killed in like a second, another missed opportunity. Well lets hope the next one doesn't make me miss this one! Great review keep em coming guys!
You guys should actually read Clive Barker's books. Pinhead (The Hell Priest, and later Pope of Hell) has always been a demon. He's the leader of The Order of the Gash, Hell's religion, which also explains why they are called Cenobites (a member of a religious order who follows monastic traditions.) His main goal is to find and meet Lucifer and ask him why he made Hell, Demons, and his own religion. When he finally gets his meeting his hero worship quickly evaporates when he learns Lucifer only made these things because he was bored, lonely, and missed God, and when they don't fill the hole left in him he goes out to an island and kills himself. Except he's immortal and always revives.
Chris Whitman Well, that's the lore from The Scarlet Gospels which sucks big time according to the reviews. The Hellbound Heart didn't have any of that shit. Even most die-hard-fans of Barker have said that SG is his worst book to date.
Hellraiser 3 was like A Nightmare On Elm St 3 for me. Both fun to watch but lose that sinister atmosphere their previous movies had. Personally I prefer Elm St 2 over 3 (a lot of people would disagree on this, I know) because I just felt Elm St 3 went too far, it was a bit too clean looking for me and that was the movie that began the silly one liners and tipical 80's slasher thing. The first two Elm Street movies had this nasty, dirty, grungy look about them, most of that was lacking in the third movie and this is how I view the first three Hellraiser movies.
II DIRECTx II i agree that 2 is much darker 3 is better written but not as scary 2 suffers from being a haunted house movie thats not a bad idea but its just not as interesting as the first or third an the lack of dreams makes the film less interesting also the ending is terrible but the scares are good an the opening on the bus is wonderful also it has my fav freddy look an the actors are likable an good
Mike Bryant lol i guess thats one way of looking at it if you want to read between the lines its stuff like that that makes a horror film more interesting
They Lost their way at the Crossroads with this One, Chasing the Cash Grab always leads to Tortured Audiences, as Pinhead would say: Such Wasted Potential, a Pleasure of a Review
You say you watch hellraiser movies to eee Pinhead tear people up, not for drama, but actually Pinhead hs not killed anybody personally in the series at all. Possibly excepting Frank, but he was offscreen at that time.
Ahhhhh, in The UK, what does Toy Boy mean? Cause I don't see the correlation to the Club Owner being called that... I don't appreciate being called the generic American Audience :-)
Hey I love Clive Barker I was wondering have you both seen nightbreed or Cabel as it’s called in the book if you haven’t seen it watch it the story is brill I love it I should be a cult classic
27:11 Iain, refresh my memory...can you list off a few of Jason's one-liners? They must not have been very catchy because nothing is coming to mind... ;P~
I really did laugh at the scenes between the two women throughout the film. I made the decision to not finish watching this dross as soon as the goth bird said, "Well, here we are, just two girls talkin'!" FFS!!!!!!
I love all your videos hellraiser knightbreed return living dead 1,2,3 child’s play death becomes her but please review night of the demons 2 and 3 also waxwork 1 and 2
I used to hate this, but after a recent view it's not half bad. It starts off pretty strong but really falls apart in the last act like you said with all the dumb cenobites and corny one liners.
5:12 Yes but that was the last thing the first two movies was. Don't get me wrong love that genre they are a tonne of that kind of film i love but that aint hellraiser
You guys dealt with all the GRATING doctor puns in Hellbound, but you draw the line with "That's a wrap"? Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending that line, it's atrocious.
I think you goofed in this review, Iain. You said Terry twice (unless the first time, you were referring to the actress). Anyway, I can't believe you guys didn't mention Motörhead being on the soundtrack of this film (the song Hellraiser (which was written by Ozzy Osbourne, Zakk Wylde, and Lemmy Kilmister (R.I.P.) for Ozzy's 1991 album "No More Tears", later to be released again a year later by Motörhead off their "March ör Die" album)), or that an ACTUAL band appeared in it (Armored Saint). Seriously, check out both versions of the Hellraiser song if you either haven't heard it before or only know it from this movie (mind you, it's the Motörhead version that's on the Hellraiser 3 soundtrack, but Lemmy and Ozzy still wrote the song together with Zakk Wylde, so it's friggin' awesome).
If the director was interested in giving strong roles to the female leads he wouldn't have had them have relations with that awful club owner. The actress playing Terry was the reporter in the Seinfeld episode when she thinks Jerry and George are gay. This films looks awful.
My favourite sequel of the series, JP Monroe was an awesome character and super hot. Apparently his character has a big fan base which is pretty cool! I enjoyed the new Cenobites, this movie is so much stupid fun!
JP Munroe was the "Chad" character as mgtow channels would say the Channing Tatum the guy all the women+girls want & who the women give themselves sexually to without asking the guy to buy meals+drinks 1st before the women drop their underwear. Type in on you tube search bar "They all want Chad" & you see ll see
The first one is hokey but not terrible and had potential which was never realised. The second one is a ridiculous, nonsensical mess with awful pacing. Honestly, I think the franchise exists because of the incredibly memorable character designs of the cenobites and for no other reason. Pinhead being the most compelling. He's an extremely arresting and visually interesting figure, who also had the best lines, played by an actor with more charisma than anyone else in the film. People really wanted to see something come of that character, something to make good on the strange gravitas he had, but it never happened. I'm not a horror fan, though, so I don't 'get' the appeal of cheesy gore-fests with thin storylines. I do think the special effects in the original are very impressive, especially considering how little money they had (just watched it for the first time a couple days ago). Good practical effects really age well.
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When you said "he's so seductive" at 17:10 I've always thought the exact same thing. I remember the first time I saw that, I had made a note to myself that pinhead is a master of seduction. It's kind of his whole thing really. He even manages to make pain sound tantalizing
Man, ain't nothing like being 12 and watching this movie is in the middle of the night while surfing HBO (I think?) and getting scared by my first Hellraiser movie
In retrospect, its was a bit dumb of me to be scared at something so ridiculous
That's the first time I saw this movie! It was actually Cinemax around 1994! I liked it.
I was 3 years old the first time I watched the first in 1990 and I was hooked on the series ever since
Was going to complain about not mentioning Lemmy in this review... BUT you got me with the credits :D
Really not a fan of the series after Hellraiser 1 & 2, but an awesome review regardless, looking forward to the next one!
Barely remember this one, which is surprising since Terri Farrell and Paula Marshall looked fantastic here. BTW, I'm an American and I wasn't insulted. Keep up the good work gents!
I love Hellraiser, 1-4. The others not so much. I never noticed till this review the director Anthony Hickox makes a cameo on the tv in one shot. Awesome reviews Gary and Iain. I'm a new subscriber and now a huge fan of the channel. Keep up the great work!
yeah 1 & 2 are genuinely great, 3 & 4 are cheesy but good fun and the rest?... go no further.
The first 4 are hellraiser movies throughout 5 up till the last 2 weren’t they were about to lose the rights so they just slapped pinhead into scripts
The best thing I got from this movie was that I finally found out where the short sample kicking off Entombed's awesome Wolverine Blues album came from🤘
They also released an EP around the same time with an instrumental track simply called Hellraiser, with adaptations of the movie score and a bunch of samples from the first movie🙂
Interestingly, the statue at the end is a real statue called, il Disco. It sat in Charlotte, NC outside the NCNB (later Nationsbank) building forever. It might still be outside the Bank of America building. It used to spin. As a child, my mom would take me by the disc to give it a good spin on the way to the library. Sadly, il Disco injured some people and the city cemented it in place.
The interior of the building was very boring, sadly.
When you bring up Anthony Hickox, I always think of this movie and of the Warlock sequel. And speaking of Warlock, there's another decent horror movie which might be worth a review.
I do wonder where this franchise would have gone had Julia (too bad Claire Higgins didn’t want to reprise the role.) been made to be more of the main villain as opposed to Pinhead/The Cenobites.
(I know Julia and Frank were the true villains but they are both pushed aside for the Cenobites to be made into/thought to be villains.)
I just watched this with captions on and realized Pinhead says "THE shadow of my former troops", not "A shadow of my former troops", so he wasn't degrading the new cenobites too bad.
I do have to say that I think the one guy is focusing too much on the slasher movie aspect. Hellraiser was never supposed to be a typical slasher, or a slasher at all. its why pinhead doesnt just kill willy nilly ( except in 3 which most people have an issue with because of 1. bad cenobite designs, and 2. it seemed to far outside Pinheads personality)
The major problem I have with 3 is they turned pinhead into a slasher It was of main problem I also had with predator 2 they turned predator into basically Jason
Terry Farrell in bondage gear. Beyond that this film has no redeeming features whatsoever. But I did like the Buffy reference.
I thought that was her. Just looked different with blonde hair. Remember her on Becker.
ahhhh the last decent hellraiser movie
I like the first 4 than the last one
5 was a decent movie, though not great as a hellraiser movie (especially since it was never intended to be one)
Hardly, thought this was pretty bad compared to the first two, honestly feel like this is where it started going downhill, this is where they really started deviating from Barker's source material and moving more in the direction of typical slasher tropes 🤷🏻
Yea this movie killed the franchise for me. In the book it and in the first two movies it seems like the story was more of a lovecraftian/sci fi horror; the cenobites were inter dimensional beings, but in this movie and subsequent ones they really sort of doubled down with the “hell” being a literal Christian hell. I always hated that because it felt so anodyne and predictable.
I get what your saying but for me 5 killed the franchise atleast the first 4 are hell raiser movies 5 up till the last 3 weren’t even really hell raiser movies they just slapped pinhead into them
25:26 maybe its a similar thing as how Pinhead knows everything about someone without seemingly knowing them at all maybe?
Ah, the goofy one. I still like #1-4 and 6 since it brought back Ashley Laurence.
I do like the connection this sequel tries to make by tying up ends for Elliot spencer but it really is mediocre. The cenobite designs here are dated. The only one to look fairly decent are Barby. Also what's with Gerry Lively's camerawork in this film? So many wide lens closeups. Great review
Yeah the new cenobites suck. Barby is pretty good and the female is decent, but the others suck.
33:58 that means it was filmed in the same lot as the original TMNT film.
😂 😂 Iains "send me to hell" impression at 36.21 🤣🤣 love it 👍👍👊
I recently watched this movie for the first time and i guess i kinda enjoyed it. I liked all the scenes you did except for that big boiler room massacre, it just got to silly to fast. I really liked the first half hour with the statue and Monroe and i was really excited to see him bring girls to pinhead, but he brings like one girl, he gets knocked out and they both get turned into cenobites and boom pinhead is free and i was just massively dissapointed.. they really fucked up a great concept in my opinion. I also kinda liked the idea of cenobites walking the street and just nobody being able to stop them, but to bad the only people on the freakin streets are 3 dumb police officers who get killed in like a second, another missed opportunity. Well lets hope the next one doesn't make me miss this one! Great review keep em coming guys!
17:15 Pinhead almost seems Sympathetic when hes only a Head there too i thought.
Maybe the biggest problem with this film is the cinematography. A lot of it is overlit and undramatic.
You guys should actually read Clive Barker's books. Pinhead (The Hell Priest, and later Pope of Hell) has always been a demon. He's the leader of The Order of the Gash, Hell's religion, which also explains why they are called Cenobites (a member of a religious order who follows monastic traditions.) His main goal is to find and meet Lucifer and ask him why he made Hell, Demons, and his own religion. When he finally gets his meeting his hero worship quickly evaporates when he learns Lucifer only made these things because he was bored, lonely, and missed God, and when they don't fill the hole left in him he goes out to an island and kills himself. Except he's immortal and always revives.
Chris Whitman Well, that's the lore from The Scarlet Gospels which sucks big time according to the reviews. The Hellbound Heart didn't have any of that shit. Even most die-hard-fans of Barker have said that SG is his worst book to date.
Pinhead's reign on earth: he knocked off a night club. That's quite the empire.
Hellraiser 3 was like A Nightmare On Elm St 3 for me. Both fun to watch but lose that sinister atmosphere their previous movies had. Personally I prefer Elm St 2 over 3 (a lot of people would disagree on this, I know) because I just felt Elm St 3 went too far, it was a bit too clean looking for me and that was the movie that began the silly one liners and tipical 80's slasher thing. The first two Elm Street movies had this nasty, dirty, grungy look about them, most of that was lacking in the third movie and this is how I view the first three Hellraiser movies.
nightmare 3 is much better written
BoomStick Critique Very true, it is. Otherwise I prefer the atmosphere of 2 over 3.
II DIRECTx II i agree that 2 is much darker 3 is better written but not as scary 2 suffers from being a haunted house movie thats not a bad idea but its just not as interesting as the first or third an the lack of dreams makes the film less interesting also the ending is terrible but the scares are good an the opening on the bus is wonderful also it has my fav freddy look an the actors are likable an good
2 is gay freddy
Mike Bryant lol i guess thats one way of looking at it if you want to read between the lines its stuff like that that makes a horror film more interesting
This Movie 🎥 is the best Hellraiser … go C it ASAP !!!
They Lost their way at the Crossroads with this One, Chasing the Cash Grab always leads to Tortured Audiences, as Pinhead would say: Such Wasted Potential, a Pleasure of a Review
The Boiler Room Massacre is the best part of the movie! I love creative kills!
3rd entry isn't always terrible. Nightmare on Elm Street 3 was the best Freddy movie.
26:44 I love that one liner. lol
Best thing in this film.......Armored Saint!!!
Assuming that at 14:22/23 he means Joey not Terri 😬🤷🏻♀️
You say you watch hellraiser movies to eee Pinhead tear people up, not for drama, but actually Pinhead hs not killed anybody personally in the series at all. Possibly excepting Frank, but he was offscreen at that time.
love you guys. keep it up!
A life of Dreams Black Miracles dark wonders life of unknown Pleasures.Love it!
26:39 that's a wrap funny
I loved how no one survived the club massacre.
great review as always!
Ahhhhh, in The UK, what does Toy Boy mean? Cause I don't see the correlation to the Club Owner being called that...
I don't appreciate being called the generic American Audience :-)
Hey I love Clive Barker I was wondering have you both seen nightbreed or Cabel as it’s called in the book if you haven’t seen it watch it the story is brill I love it I should be a cult classic
It is a cult classic. Great movie.
27:11 Iain, refresh my memory...can you list off a few of Jason's one-liners? They must not have been very catchy because nothing is coming to mind... ;P~
Great channel.
i know this is not the best hellraiser movie but it is the funniest
I really did laugh at the scenes between the two women throughout the film. I made the decision to not finish watching this dross as soon as the goth bird said, "Well, here we are, just two girls talkin'!"
FFS!!!!!!
I love all your videos hellraiser knightbreed return living dead 1,2,3 child’s play death becomes her but please review night of the demons 2 and 3 also waxwork 1 and 2
that's a wrap was funny just like Batman and Robin my favourite part of that film is just Arnold Schwarzenegger said frosty
Cool party
Hellraiser.... I'll put a spell on you. Great fuckin song, shame the movie's not quite so good though.
Thank you for sharing I am a fan of hellraiser
I saw some star treck but i recognize her from Becker with Ted Danson. It was an ok show
So if pinhead came back for number 3, where's the other cenobites, chatterer etc. ???
Plz review War of the Worlds Goliath.
Shot in the city where I live.
The priest must be pissed off asking why did you come to this church
I used to hate this, but after a recent view it's not half bad. It starts off pretty strong but really falls apart in the last act like you said with all the dumb cenobites and corny one liners.
You never mentioned how bad some of the voice over dubbing was.
Whoo, let's turn him into a generic slasher villain.
ARMORED SAINT!!!!!!
5:12 Yes but that was the last thing the first two movies was.
Don't get me wrong love that genre they are a tonne of that kind of film i love but that aint hellraiser
You guys dealt with all the GRATING doctor puns in Hellbound, but you draw the line with "That's a wrap"? Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending that line, it's atrocious.
I think you goofed in this review, Iain. You said Terry twice (unless the first time, you were referring to the actress). Anyway, I can't believe you guys didn't mention Motörhead being on the soundtrack of this film (the song Hellraiser (which was written by Ozzy Osbourne, Zakk Wylde, and Lemmy Kilmister (R.I.P.) for Ozzy's 1991 album "No More Tears", later to be released again a year later by Motörhead off their "March ör Die" album)), or that an ACTUAL band appeared in it (Armored Saint). Seriously, check out both versions of the Hellraiser song if you either haven't heard it before or only know it from this movie (mind you, it's the Motörhead version that's on the Hellraiser 3 soundtrack, but Lemmy and Ozzy still wrote the song together with Zakk Wylde, so it's friggin' awesome).
you're kidding right? they used the song in the review...how could they not know?
Terry Farrell excels in her bad acting on this one.
I liked this one
This one was better than Hellraiser 2.
If the director was interested in giving strong roles to the female leads he wouldn't have had them have relations with that awful club owner. The actress playing Terry was the reporter in the Seinfeld episode when she thinks Jerry and George are gay. This films looks awful.
cinabites aren't supposed to remember their human lives .
There's plenty cd's that kill, like spice girls and boyzone, yet 1 to the face of a cop and he dies, naaaahhh!
I like this as a B movie but I dont like that it threw out the rules of the first two films
My favourite sequel of the series, JP Monroe was an awesome character and super hot. Apparently his character has a big fan base which is pretty cool! I enjoyed the new Cenobites, this movie is so much stupid fun!
JP Munroe was the "Chad" character as mgtow channels would say the Channing Tatum the guy all the women+girls want & who the women give themselves sexually to without asking the guy to buy meals+drinks 1st before the women drop their underwear. Type in on you tube search bar "They all want Chad" & you see ll see
Terri Farrell, the lead singer of John's Addiction?! Giggidy.
It's crap compared to the first and second.
Hey now, "Dumb Americans"?! Those are Trump voters, not all of us.
Because senile Joe Biden hasn't led us into inflation and recession. Not at all
As a fan of true horror I hate the entire series sorry but I've always found it to be laughably bad.
Your no "real" fan of horror
The Bad Guy From The Darkside Sure...Not a true fan lol You found me out for not liking this series...
The first one is hokey but not terrible and had potential which was never realised. The second one is a ridiculous, nonsensical mess with awful pacing. Honestly, I think the franchise exists because of the incredibly memorable character designs of the cenobites and for no other reason. Pinhead being the most compelling. He's an extremely arresting and visually interesting figure, who also had the best lines, played by an actor with more charisma than anyone else in the film. People really wanted to see something come of that character, something to make good on the strange gravitas he had, but it never happened.
I'm not a horror fan, though, so I don't 'get' the appeal of cheesy gore-fests with thin storylines. I do think the special effects in the original are very impressive, especially considering how little money they had (just watched it for the first time a couple days ago). Good practical effects really age well.