Kari Wuhrer, Paul Rhys, Georgina Rylance

Chilling seventh chapter in the long-running horror saga follows a reporter who travels to Bucharest where she becomes drawn into the world of the deaders, a bizarre suicide cult bent on resurrec...( read more  read more... )ting the evil Pinhead.

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Directed by: Rick Bota

Release Date: June 7, 2005

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  • May 1, 2009
    Well finally "Hellraiser: Deader" has arrived after a few years gathering dust on the shelf.

    I agree with other members that it does seem to breathe some life in to this once outstanding franchise, but as with the other sequels it just lacks what the earlier films had in abunda...( read more)nce. My personal view is that you can really tell that this wasn't written as a "Hellraiser" film.

    For the first half hour or so except with the odd reference to "The Box" this could have been any other horror film and it kind of remains that way throughout.

    The one thing really missing for me as with "Hellraiser: Inferno" and "Hellraiser: Hellseaker" is we just don't see enough of the "Cenobites".

    I don't just mean "Pinhead" I mean all of them. You see a few glancing shots of them, but I'm sorry its just not enough. Its does seem a waste not giving them screen time. There are 6 "Cenobites" in this movie ("Pinhead", "Chatterer", "Bound", "Stitch", "Little Sister") & ("Spike" in the bonus material!) why are all these needed for 5 minutes of screen time? To be fair they did seem to play a bigger part in this than Parts V or VI, however they have almost become extras or cameos these days.

    I have read a few comments from other users saying that these films are not about "Pinhead" but there is a reason he has been in all of the franchise to date.

    I agree that one of the strengths of "Hellraiser" is they are stand alone stories, but in any franchise you need a recurring factor and the "Cenobites" and in particular "Pinhead" is it.

    The "Cenobites" are "Hellraiser", which is why the later films don't feel like "Hellraiser" movies at all.

    "Hellraiser: Deader" is a good and one of the better sequels to date and should give all fans hope for "Hellraiser: Hellworld" but as I remarked with "Hellraiser: Hellseaker" the fleeting glimpses of the "Cenobites" just are not enough.

    Get back to the essence of the movies and set the story around them or let them play a major part again. The later films in this series sadly, could have been so much more.
  • August 17, 2008
    8-17-08: Been a week since I finished the Hellraiser series in one go. Parts of this and the end of the first movie are the only images sticking with me (and scaring me!). The corpse scene in 'Deader' is firmly planted in my fear garden and I can easily see myself setting up a ni...( read more)ghtmare in which I am on the Deader ritual table. Added half a star, even though I still hate the plot and think the head Deader wasn't cast well.
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    This entry has potential, as there are some really cool sets, a decent lead, and a return to a more Cenobite-grounded story. But the mistake this movie makes is not making any sense whatsoever. With any sort of subjectively/cryptically ordered plot with dream or hallucination sequences, things get tricky for writers and teh audience can quickly be left behind if the director can't put the right visual cues on screen to make up for what the writers didn't do. This movie can't pick up that slack, so it's story becomes quickly frustrating.
    PLOT SPOILERS BEGIN: I don't think there needed to be another reference to the leMerchant line because that was what ALL of Bloodline was about! And it does NOT at all explain how this Merchant descendant is able to harness supernatural powers. I get that he's trying to solve the lament configuration by using other people, but I don't understand how he is able to bring them back from the dead as deaders, or how he is able to elude Pinhead's powers using these people as buffers, which would seem to me that these people would just make him more vulnerable to Cenobite attack than fortified against it.
    SPOILERS END
    Anyway, now I'm totally fed up with most of the movies ending by Pinhead doing the signature chains-n-hooks tears you apart sequence made famous by Barker's work in the first entry, and this movie gives us another one.

    This movie did creep me out on some levels though. In terms of making me weirded out by freaky Euro trash scenes, this is a million times better or cooler than Hostel because this is actually freaky, whereas Hostel is just fuckin funny and stupid. The scene with our heroine and the corpse in the beginning of the movie, who becomes a secondary character, is pretty damn cool and memorable - great cinematography and shot angles (someone actually tried!). If the script wasn't so supremely muddy and indecipherable, like most of the Hellraiser movies, I'd be mass recommending this, even with the worst ever ending chain-hooks sequence in BAD BAD CGI.
  • July 8, 2007
    The poster artwork looks like a cool Pinhead sequel, but the movie is a weird bore.

    A strange cult exists where the members have found the secret to being undead. The main reporter character walks around with a knife in her back for over a day - this grossed me out a bit. Ther...( read more)e's a weird subway ride. There's a freaky suicide scene in an apartment bathroom with the Hellraiser cube gripped in the dead girl's hands. It's all strange and doesn't make much sense. It's another form of hell, yet unexplored. This was all loosely connected to the Hellraiser series. I didn't like it much.
  • February 25, 2007
    Decent movie, but along the same lines as the third one. All the classic horror cliches brought back.
  • December 31, 2006
    They all suck
  • September 17, 2009
    A weak entry, with a plot I do not care, and with a Pinhead that looked exhausted and forgettable, though Kari Wuhrer as Amy Klein was quite a performance. The final scene echoes the original Hellraiser's ending, but to be honest, parts 1 , 2, and 5 are the only strong installmen...( read more)ts of this far-fetched horror franchise.
  • August 17, 2009
    ...( read more)- Deader
    I say the following as a horror fan. These just keep getting more interesting. This is evidently the seventh installment. The first two Hellraisers were top notch. Bloodline was actually rather clever. The others I have lost track of as I thought they started to slip. Deader is fresh and original by comparison. You do have to put up with stereotypical characters: The tough cookie gal reporter, and the usual obnoxious street youth. However, It has some very creepy, rather creative memorable scenes. It continues to top itself throughout the film. Some great location shots in Bucaresti.
  • May 26, 2009
    first of all deader isn't even a word. anyways if you didnt absolutly love the first few hellraiser movies then you will hate this one. I liked it because of pin head
  • May 6, 2009
    Plot 2
    Production 2
    Entertainment 3
    Characters 2
    Originality 1
  • April 20, 2009
    Cool movie. Encouraging to see the series gathering momentum with another quality film. Don't miss it.

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