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HELL ON EARTH is an improvement on HELLBOUND. Or is it ? Well in its favour HELL ON EARTH eases up on the stomach churning gore that made its predecessor such a turn off , but I can`t help thinking that Clive Barker has sold out the franchise . Sure much of this film is entertaining but it`s also - despite having a couple of Brits as Director and screenwriter - very Americanised and dumbed down . Out goes the unique visions of hell and in its place we get massacres and bullet proof monsters stalking the streets of New York . I did enjoy some of this film but it is uneven in terms of both script , direction and acting . It takes a long time for the action to start for instance and seems to contradict much of what went before in the two previous movies and I was totally unconvinced by the battle scenes . South east Asia seems to be composed of fields and elm trees just like in THE GREEN BERETS and the trenches of the great war weren`t muddy enough for my liking . But as in THE MONSTER CLUB the demons in this aren`t as hellish as humans are. In HELL ON EARTH we see the ripped apart bodies of young men from the first world war and Vietnam while we see panoramas of the WTC twin towers . Compared to what human beings are capable of the cenobites are surely angels after all

Okay, I like bad movies. I even liked "Friday the 13th. Part 5: A New Beginning". My criteria for a bad horror film: 1) the acting doesn't have to be great, but at least as good as a high school drama student; 2) special effects don't have to look that real, but at least show that someone tried to make it look realistic (show a little effort); 3) it should have a somewhat coherent plot; and (applying only to sequels) 4) let it follow the other movies logically, use a little continuity, and resolve what was left unresolved in the previous film(s). That said, this film isn't even 'so-bad-it's-good' it's just bad. Terrible acting, terrible story, but slightly follows previous movies in the series via references to Kirsty Cotton, from the first two films. But even the reference is, at best, weak and only serves as a way to connect the film to the others (which is okay, but amounts to-- and resolves nothing). The new cenobites are pretty stupid too. This movie tries to be things it cannot be: it tries to be a good story, but it's not; it tries to add a little comedy, but nothing's funny; it tries to be scary, but if there was any horror in this movie it's the fact that it was made at all. But it is gory, but not like the previous movies. Pinhead is more menacing when he's in an atmosphere that's not quite British and not quite American. He's scarier in an attic or in the walls of a mental hospital than a New York nightclub or in the streets of Manhattan. This film sort of suffers from the 'Friday the 13th Syndrome'--"let's put Pinhead in New York and see what happens". What's next, Pinhead in space?

Hellraiser and Hellraiser 2 is SO much better. I've never been a fan of hellraiser until i saw the first one and the second was even better! I guess i shouldn't be surprised about a sequel to a sequel but so many people say this is there favorite movie and its so good. This movie is a huge piece of CRAP! There's a part where Pinhead is in a dance club about to kill a hundred or more people and pans over to a girl at a table, her drink floats out of her cup turns into the face of pinhead then freezes and stabs her in the mouth. This movie probably sounded really good on paper but it came out horribly. If you haven't seen any Hellraiser movie and want to give a shot do NOT start with this one i beg of you! p.s i got this movie for free and i still feel ripped off.

Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth starts in a New York art galley where night club owning playboy J.P. Monroe (Kevin Bernhardt) buys an interesting & unique piece of art, a sculpture that contains the remains of Pinhead (Doug Bradley) the sadistic Cenobite from the original Hellriaser (1987) & Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988). Joey Summerskill (Terry Farrell) is a journalist on assignment reporting for a news program from an emergency ward in a Hospital where she is witness to a strange incident. A guy is rushed in with hooks attached to chains piercing his flesh, Joey looks on as the guy's head explodes. The guy was brought in with a girl named Terri (Paula Marshall) whom Joey locates & questions about the incident. Terri says that the guy stole a strange puzzle box from Monroe's sculpture & that's where the hooks came from, the sculpture is in Monroe's night club The Boiler Room. Joey is determined to find out the secret of the puzzle box & land herself a big story. Meanwhile Pinhead has convinced Monroe to bring him victims so that he may resurrect himself & raise hell on earth... Directed by Anthony Hickox this is the point where it's generally agreed the Hellraiser series became crap, while Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth isn't really that bad it's nowhere near as good as it's illustrious predecessors. The script by Peter Atkins, who also makes an appearance as one of the new Cenobites, turns the series into the crappy horror franchise that it has become & tries as hard as it can to appeal to the American teenage market, ugh. For a start it makes a central character out of Pinhead, the previous films were never just about him, they were about an overall feel, creepiness & atmosphere & not revolving around a invulnerable horror character spouting lots of one-liners. The other Cenobites also disappoint, instead of the twisted grotesque design from the previous films Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth turns them into a gimmick, from a bartender (writer Peter Atkins in a cameo) who uses his fire breath to ignite alcohol, a DJ (Brent Bolthouse) who has CD's implanted in his face & he uses them to throw at people (they must have razor edges or something) & Doc (Ken Carpenter) as the cameraman who has a camera stuck through his head, right. They come across as tacky & crowd pleasing. In the previous films the Cenobites were kept in the background, all mysterious & menacing while this time around they dominate & have little purpose. The films starts off a bit slow but things pick up at the end & it's not a bad watch but just comes a such a disappointment after the two originals which were two of the best horrors to come along in decades. Director Hickox has to take responsibility for ruining the series. The films set in New York, again to appeal to American audiences, he gives Pinhead's alter ego Elliot Spencer a large role & it all becomes supernatural & muddled. In the end Pinhead fights himself & it's just mundane. The other Cenobites are wasted, they use their 'special power' to kill someone & that's it. The puzzle box is almost completely forgotten & is no longer needed to summon the Cenobites. The dark atmosphere & tension present in the previous films is severely lacking & replaces them with explosions & silly novelty deaths. There are a few decent gore scenes, hooks embedded in flesh, exploding heads, severed limbs, skinless people, a hole on someones head, a melted hand & death by lethal CD's! Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth had studio backing which is why it ended up so commercialised so it probably had a decent budget. The film looks nice throughout & has good production values. The acting didn't impress me. This is a disappointing film yet at the same time not a particularly bad one in it's own right. If you liked the first two for their originality, darkness & gore then I'm pretty sure that you will be very disappointed with Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth like I was. Having said that I still think it's OK & worth a watch.

Where Hellraiser 1 and 2 were both very dark and very British, Hellraiser 3: Hell On Earth is very Hollywood. J. P. Monroe is the scumbag, soulless owner of The Boiler Room, a somewhat gothy dance club decorated with morbid art. In his search for more profane objects to add to his collection, J. P. comes across, and subsequently purchases, an odd pillar in an art gallery, which fans of the first two films will have no trouble recognizing. Enter Joey Summerskill, a frustrated reporter who comes across a bizarre death in a hospital emergency room. As she watches, a young man is torn to pieces by hooks and chains that appear out of midair. Eager to discover the story behind the gruesome, supernatural death, and with only one clue to follow, Joey arrives at the Boiler Room and befriends the insecure and abused Terri, J. P.'s ex girlfriend. Together, they discover the history of the Lament Configuration, the bizarre happenings at the Channard Institute and the story of Kirsty Cotton. But it doesn't end there. Joey begins having dreams about a man named Elliot Spencer, a World War One soldier who warns her that evil has been unleashed in the form of his own evil alter ego, the Cenobite Pinhead. Indeed, Pinhead soon breaks free and turns The Boiler Room into a slaughterhouse. Now he wants Joey. But can Elliot Spencer stop Pinhead before Joey is taken to Hell? This isn't a terrible sequel, really. It's not great, but it's nowhere near as bad as some of the others that followed. There's some nice bloody gore and naked girls, and Pinhead, as always, seems to be enjoying himself immensely, seducing his victims with a smile and making his offer of an eternity of pain seem quite irresistible. His scene with a priest is particularly nasty and blasphemous...and wickedly funny. The storyline doesn't always make sense, there's a lot of unintentionally laughable moments and some of the acting borders on the ridiculous, but all in all, Hellraiser 3 is pretty good cinematic junk food. If nothing else, Doug Bradley alone always makes these films watchable with his flawless portrayal of Pinhead. 6 out of 10.

Despite appreciating horror very much (with a lot of classic ones out there, such as 'Halloween', 'Nightmare on Elm Street', 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre', 'Night of the Living Dead' and 'The Exorcist', plus the best of Hammer House of Horror), even if not my favourite genre, it took me a while to get round to watching the 'Hellraiser' franchise. Due to having so much to watch and review, and the list keeps getting longer and longer. The film that started the franchise off is not only for me by far the best of the 'Hellraiser' films it also for me, and quite a few others it seems, is one of the stronger horror films of the 80s, though not quite of all time. What is meant by being by far the best of the 'Hellraiser' films is that it is the only one to be above very good, the nine sequels were very variable (leaning towards the disappointing) and the latter films particularly are suggestive of the franchise having run its course. From personal opinion, while a bit of a disappointment 'Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth' is still watchable and one of the better sequels in the series. Would say actually it is second best after 'Hellbound: Hellraiser II'. Quite a fair few good things here in 'Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth'. The production were fine, do prefer the nightmarishly Gothic look of the first two films but the film looks very stylish and atmosphere with visual effects that aren't overused or abused and actually a little more polished than 'Hellbound: Hellraiser II'. The theme song is quite memorable, while there are some imaginative and disturbing kills and Pinhead's scene in the church is one of the best in the series, hair-raising and wickedly funny. Did like the effort to give development to Pinhead and his story is interesting, regardless of whether it fitted within the rest of the film or not. Doug Bradley is genuinely intimidating and Terry Farrell does a decent job. It is hard however to ignore the drawbacks. 'Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth' lacks the creepiness and ambition of the previous two films, there is a lot of silliness and camp humour and it does undermine any creepiness or suspense and it just feels completely different tonally compared to its predecessors. The dialogue is toe-curling this time and didn't really see any need for some of the gore, which didn't unnerve that much and came over as cheap and gratuitous instead. Also thought the story, while slightly more coherent than parts of 'Hellbound: Hellraiser II', made little sense and was muddled. The rest of the acting is laughable and the Cebonites are nowhere near as creepy or mysterious. Worst of all is the ridiculously over-the-top and far-fetched ending, that was even more of an incomprehensible parody as the one in the previous film. Overall, watched and one of the better 'Hellraiser' sequels but could have been better. 5/10 Bethany Cox