Hellraiser - Hellworld | 
 enlarge | Director: Rick Bota
Actors: Stelian Urian, Katheryn Winnick, Anna Tolputt, Khary Payton, Henry Cavill
Studio: Dimension
Category: DVD
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Rating:  68 reviews
Sales Rank: 22902
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 95 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: DISD40387D
UPC: 786936286014
EAN: 0786936286014
ASIN: B0007US7E4
Theatrical Release Date: September 6, 2005
Release Date: September 6, 2005
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Pinhead returns to terrorize computer hackers that have opened a virtual lament configuration on the website hellworld.Com. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 09/05/2006 Starring: Doug Bradley Lance Henriksen Run time: 90 minutes
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Clive Barker's Gothic ghoul Pinhead is pitted against online gamers out for kicks in Hellraiser: Hellworld, the eighth entry in the popular horror franchise. A group of young computer-game enthusiasts crack the secret of Hellworld, a virtual-reality game based on the Hellraiser mythos, and earn themselves an invite to an exclusive party at a secluded and spooky mansion. There, the host (Lance Henriksen, always a welcome sight) reveals his elaborate collection of Hellraiser-related artifacts, as well as a hidden agenda regarding one of the gamers' friends, who died under sinister circumstances. Naturally, this fresh assortment of attractive young souls with an insatiable curiosity for the forbidden summons up Pinhead (Doug Bradley, natch) and his Cenobite friends to unleash their own brand of hell on Earth. Hellraiser devotees won't find any fresh ideas in the script, but veteran cinematographer Rick Bota (who helmed the two previous films in the franchise) provides attractive visuals, and the gore is plentiful and unpleasant. --Paul Gaita
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 Hell Needs Help November 28, 2008
Mark Eremite (Seoul, South Korea)
"This place has nothing to do with the box," says Hellraiser enthusiast, Chelsea (Katheryn Winnick). The young blonde is referring to a strange Hellraiser party that she and her friends were invited to after solving an online version of the Lament Configuration (the Hellraiser puzzle box). Have I said the word "Hellraiser" enough times? Let me say it again: Hellraiser.
I'm sorry. I'm repeating myself because I really wanted to watch a Hellraiser film, and just as Chelsea observes, this thing isn't even close. The movie and the party it's about are cheap, showy, and barely convincing. And, let me hammer it home, they have little to nothing to do with the franchise that Clive Barker made a name setting up.
But I'm pragmatic, and I'm not some kind of Hellraiser junkie. I can enjoy a movie on its own terms, if that's what it deserves. So, ignoring for the moment that this pretty much bankrupts a once promising premise, if this isn't really about Hellraiser, what IS it about?
Five friends who ARE Hellraiser junkies find themselves gathered at the funeral of a sixth, who apparently took the mythos too seriously, ending his life in a fit of role playing passion. Two years later, the five still dabble a bit (now Pinhead's box is web-based), and one day they all receive a special invitation to the aforementioned party. Once there, bloody and boring things begin to happen.
One of the five is an inconsolable fellow named Jake, who is bitter and judgemental of the other four. He attends this erotic S&M party, but broods from room to room, scowling and refusing to have a good time. The other four enjoy the house and its oddities with stupid and over-acted enthusiasm. They are the kind of people who spray themselves in the face with a stranger's antique, collector's-edition Hellraiser perfume. Without even asking! They say the phrase, "It's just a game," around fifty or sixty times, and then they die right on cue. The deaths are a brief but welcome change of pace, because these haunted house nuts are, of course, asking for it.
They're a lively bunch, though, especially the asthmatic Derrick (Khary Payton), who mugs and camps his way from line to line. When he's playing the online Hellword game, we mostly see his unconvincing smile and vacant, eager eyes. What glimpses we are given of the computer game don't make it look very interesting or well-made. That's the movie for you. And much like a computer game you spend two years of your life mastering, at the end of it you have to ask yourself if it was really worth your time.
We'll tear your masterpiece apart..... November 6, 2008
Charles B. Dunn (New Albany, IN)
The should be re-titled "Hellraiser: Dumber". How could you make such a mess of a film? Avoid at all costs and don't murder 90 minutes off of your life.
This could be the worst Hellraiser October 27, 2008
Music Fan Mark (California USA)
I think I still have one Hellraiser to see, the one before this. I hope for my sake that by enduring this installment "Hellworld" I have witnessed the low end of the franchise. I'll keep it simple;
* Too campy for scary or atmosphere, not campy enough for a Saturday Night Live feel.
* Characters are shallow and are billed as hardcore gamers, but come across as being technological Luddites.
* Story has holes you could drive a bus through, end result, you just don't care.
* I'm a photographer and so am sensitive to camera work in a film, this had poor composition, amateurish and garish lighting and was uninspired in use of props and environments.
* How many CDs does it take to hold the soundtrack on? Several, I'd guess as the songs changed every 30 seconds. Yet another splinter to remind you that you are wasting your time on this poor product.
That's what I felt coming into this episode with no expectations. This is the "The Crow - Wicked Prayer" for the Hellraiser series. There is always a low point in everything and this like that Crow movie, very low from the high point of it's respective series. I suggest you avoid this movie. One star.
 It's A Hell Of A World When Even Pinhead Stoops To This Level June 28, 2008
Eric Ericson (Venice, Florida USA)
What is it with my favorite Horror franchises just majorly falling apart around their eighth (and usually final) entry? Michael Myers becomes a game show contestant in Resurrection, Freddy Krueger gets "real" in New Nightmare, Jason Voorhees buys a ticket-to-ride to the big apple and turns into a child in the process in Jason Takes Manhattan, and even Pinhead himself becomes a slasher-for-hire in Hellworld.
I guess when Horror characters get long in the tooth, the powers that be just try too hard to come up with something new for them to do, but alienates the fans that put them there in the process. Such with Hellworld, Hellraiser's eighth (and last, until dreaded "remake" time) installment. Director Rick Bota back around 2003 was given the opportunity to make two new Hellraiser films back-to-back to add to the franchise and give Dimension Films something to add to their bad sequel catalog. Strangely though, both scripts he ended up with were never intended to be Hellraiser films in the first place, but stand-alone projects that only were altered to feature Pinhead and company in small, cameo-like roles. His first, Part 7:Deader seemed more Hellraiser-ish to other direct-to-video chapters like Part 5:Inferno & Part 6:Hellseeker. More based on one character's slow trip through madness, ending up in Pinhead's clutches towards the end. Not the case with Hellworld, for the first time all the rules are out the window, Pinhead's going for it in ways he's never done before...or really should have either.
In it, there is a popular on-line videogame called "Hellworld" based upon the Lament Configuration (y'know..the box?) and it's guardians The Cenobites, with Pinhead being it's "Mario" of the bunch. In this movie everybody knows the Hellraiser legacy, however I'm pretty sure that unlike say New Nightmare or Blair Witch 2, they don't know of any of the actual movies based on them...whew! When one of a group of friends kills himself over too much playing of the game, the five surviving friends go their separate ways until two years later when they reunite due to a special invitation to a Hellworld themed house party. Once there they're host, always welcomed and enjoyed Lance Henriksen, takes to the group and shows them around his private collection of Hellworld rarities and oddities. And then strange things start to happen to each of them, making them question what is real and what is not, as if they were playing the game right then and there...and with Pinhead stalking them the whole way.
That's right, "stalking" them. Pinhead's never been one to play Jason or Michael but he does so here. And even though his new techniques are somewhat explained by the film's end, you sort of wince when you see this once great character lose his originality. Gone are the chains/hooks of death replaced with knives and wooden stakes, and early on you question how did Doug Bradley let himself get stuck in a script like this. At least the visuals look nice, with a decent (yet cheap) amount of gore, nudity, and flash, but all the way feeling empty and foreign to the Hellraisers we've seen before. So by the credits roll, you feel the same way as you did when you probably saw Friday The 13th V:A New Beginning..hopefully that won't spoil it for you too much.
So to a Hellraiser fan, it's a must once see film, but you won't stop watching at least four other chapters for it. Sure, you do get to see Pinhead more in this film compared to three chapters before it, but sometimes "less is more" is a phrase that isn't used often enough.
(RedSabbath Rating:6.5/10)
The weakest "Hellraiser" April 3, 2008
Burritoman
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I thought "Bloodline" would go down as the least essential entry in the esteemed "Hellraiser" series. I was wrong; "Hellworld" isn't even up to the less than elegant standard of part 4. The problem here is not at the feet of director Rick Bota, who delivered the masterpiece "Deader" and the excellent "Hellseeker" prior to this one. It's the script, even more, it's the entire concept behind this film. It's another of the self-aware type of horror that was already proven to be useless with "Halloween: Resurrection". The story about internet Hellraiser games and revenge and hallucinogens, etc. etc. just doesn't work. The "Hellraiser" we have here is basically reduced to a teen thriller, and the only reason it's entertaining at all is because of Bota's deft hand and background in cinematography. Otherwise this would be unwatchable. Really.
This appears to be the final film of the original series. Too bad it had to go out like this.
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