Supelice
Dreadfully Boring
Stoutor
It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.
Staci Frederick
Blistering performances.
Brooklynn
There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.
vengeance20
Watched this with an open mind & had to say it was very very good, though not as good as Inferno, was & still is a great & epic sequel! The film centers around a man & his wife who have a car accident in they crash & go off into the river, he lives but his wife drowns & dies! But things starts to slowly piece together as it wasn't as simple as this man thought it was! He starts to lose his touch with reality & other things start cropping up in his life as after having a head injury he starts to remember things which actually happened, he even remembers the infamous Lament Configuration Puzzle Box & remembers opening up the gates to hell with Pinhead & the cenobites in tow!The film had a dreary & unsettling vibe about it. It was complex but easy to follow. Though it was a bit confusing here & there, I did enjoy it & found the revelations in this film to be pretty airtight until the big reveal. The effects were great as always, bloody & gory as they came! The story itself has some interesting things about it & also kept you into the story!Though it wasn't as good as Inferno it was bloody close to being on par! 9.0/10
Jackson Booth-Millard
When I read about this seventh film in the horror series I was intrigued that the leading actress from the original first film (and the not very good first sequel) had returned, but even with her and the actor returning as the iconic villain I knew it wouldn't be good being a straight to DVD release. Basically Trevor Gooden (Dean Winters) is married to Kirsty Cotton (Ashley Laurence), who survived the events of the first and second films, and she seems to have gotten over her fears of the Cenobites, but disaster strikes when the two of them crash their car off a bridge into a river, and she supposedly died. Travor survived and due to a head injury can only remember seeing her inside the car before being rescued, but the police suspect foul play when the doors were discovered unlocked and Kirsty's body is missing, he is prime suspect to potential murder. A month later he starts suffering hallucinations and strange events, including the appearance of Cenobite leader Pinhead (Doug Bradley), and he learns more about himself, i.e. not being a good man having cheated on his wife with various women, and he tries to get rid of the thought of Kirsty using the puzzle box, the Lament Configuration. Before she disappears however she offers a deal to Pinhead, offering him five souls in exchange for hers, so she kills three of Trevor's mistresses and one of his friends, the friend in fact conspired to kill her for her fortune. Learning his true past shocks Trevor, and in an operating theatre he goes to he finds a covered body on the table, he assumes it is Kirsty, but then he is shocked to find it is himself, he is the fifth victim to be taken, and he has been living in limbo all the time. Discovering his past and put things back together was a mental punishment for disloyalty to his wife and self denial, so he is finally taken by force with Pinhead to spend eternity in Hell, while Kirsty is still alive, walks away from the crime scene, the river, with the puzzle box, and Trevor is made responsible for the murders, and he was apparently shot in the head. Also starring Rachel Hayward as Allison, Sarah-Jane Redmond as Gwen, Jody Thompson as Tawny, Kaaren De Zilva as Sage, William S. Taylor as Detective Lange and Michael Rogers as Detective Givens. Winters is dull to be a victim or leading man, Laurence is hardly used at all and is unconvincing, and Bradley is only on screen for short moments as Pinhead, the story is hardly worth the effort at all, it is trying too much to be like a crime film, with hardly any gore or torture to grip you it is a rubbish and pointless horror mystery thriller. Pretty poor!
atinder
...about this sequel not as good as the one before, I thought it was better then the fourth movie in the series for so far.The most of the movie. I was really confused, as the movie kept on going, I just kept on getting more and more confused..I did not understand what the hell was going for most of the movie, I just found the whole movie to be very bizarre.I did not find that boring, there were some dull parts that drag on bit but that really, found this sequel well worth watching.I Clad that Kirsty returned in this movie to have a connections to the early movies in the seriesI really liked the the ending, it really took me by surprised as did not seeing coming at all,Over I thought it was very decent sequel but it did not have many bloody moment in this at all, i thought it even less gory then one before, which had very little gory in it.I give this 5 out of 10
gavin6942
A shady businessman attempts to piece together the details of the car crash that killed his wife (Ashley Laurence) and rendered him an amnesiac -- and left him in possession of a sinister puzzle box that summons monsters.So, here we go... a Hellraiser film with little or no connection to the other films. Sure, you say it is connected because of Kirsty Cotton and the puzzle box. But no, you are just falling for their trick.What we actually have here is two films trying to act as one. We have Kirsty and the puzzle box (again), and her making a deal with Pinhead. I think this went partially out of character for her, but basically stayed within the realm of the Hellraiser mythology.But then we also have a story of a man who cannot remember if he killed his wife or if she died in a car accident or what actually happened. And had his wife been anyone other than Kirsty, it still would have made a good story -- and, in fact, probably would have been a better one.Because when you mix them, here comes the problem: the twist of bringing up Hellraiser basically reveals the plot surrounding the husband to not really matter, therefore making the first two-thirds of the movie completely pointless in retrospect. Instead of two decent movies, they decided to breed and make one really terrible, ugly film. And that was just stupid...