Good start, but then it gets ruined

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

A journalist uncovers an underground group who can bring back the dead and slowly becomes drawn into their world. Hellraiser: Deader is a straight to dvd sequel and it shows trust me. The acting was pretty bad, the cinematography was very awful and the entire set of characters were pretty much there in order to take their money or die that's it. This movies offer nothing new or fun to the Series they keep doing the same thing again and again without any actual meaning and it makes things worse and worse with each installment. (0/10)

This had the potential of being a decent Hellraiser sequel. For one, the story makes this a Hellraiser film. The trouble is that it doesn't go far enough and the direction is dreadful, the pace is too slow, and the scary atmosphere is non-existent.Reporter, Amy Klein (Wuhrer), is given a new assignment to track down the deaders. Her boss, Charles Richmond (Kunz), has been sent a video in which a woman is shot in the head after a strange ritual by a man named Winter (Rhys)... seconds later she's alive once again, with a huge exit wound in the side of her head... and she's immortal. In the course of her investigation into the new cult, Amy finds out that Winter is a descendant of L'Merchant...For some reason, Bota, who was responsible for the uneasy feeling throughout the last instalment of the Hellraiser saga, Hellseeker, failed to add the same atmosphere in this chapter. This is a shame as it would have been so much better with it... the story cries out for a sense of unease and creepiness, with a side order of fear. It's even forgivable that there are few Cenobites in the story, once again, as the ritual and the immortalisation is based around the L'Merchant configuration. However, the ritual itself should have been better thought out. It feels and appears weak and silly. For me, it was even quite annoying with all the shouting. This was a missed opportunity, and there are plenty more in the story.I have to admit, even though I'm not liking the new set of Hellraiser films, I have to give credit to the actors and actresses as they have been the strongest and best part of the movies. This is still the case in this flick too. The only flimsy character is Winter. Rhys gives a poor portrayal of a main character, though this too could be down to the writing and the direction. I would have tried to get Bruce Ramsey to play Winter as he did such a great job as the trio of Merchant's in Bloodline.What the film needed was a more detailed and thought out story, better direction with an influx of atmosphere, and slightly more Cenobites...Again, I would recommend the original four films over this one.

The picture starts out in a large, run down flat in London which contains several abusers of alcohol and drugs. The mostly blocked daylight slowly stimulates wakening. Amy takes a few last snaps, and turns off her sound recorder. She leaves to go to the offices of a publication, 'London Underground'...after some considerable cleanup, that is. When she goes to meet her boss, Charles Richmond, the scent of patchouli oil precedes her. Amy and Charles have known each other for quite some time. Charles shows her a tape about 'deaders,' then gives her a new assignment concerning the accuracy of the tape.The tape has what at first seems to be a snuff film. A young woman shoots herself in the head with a heavy pistol. She seems quite dead. Winter, the leader of the forsaken-looking 'youth' that watched the head shot gives her mouth-to-mouth and the stricken woman revives.The envelope containing the tape had a return address. Charles sends Amy to Bucharest, Romania, where all the 'cool' Euro trash go for thrills. ('Amsterdam is so 90s.') Amy finds the return address in Bucharest. She finds the exact flat, discovers a body dead by suicide, a scrapbook of disturbing photographs, a puzzle cube, next steps to investigate, and a plea for help. Later, when she is in private, she runs her hands over the puzzle cube, and gets her first (hallucinatory) encounter with Pinhead after opening it partially. She keeps looking, then runs afoul of the local gendarmes. Charles bails her out, then exhorts her to keep after the story, again back in Bucharest.When she continues the investigation, her hallucinations get much worse. She manages to witness the act of 'resurrection.' She has her first chilling conversation with Winter, and gives him the puzzle cube. Winter claims he is trying to recover his inheritance. He attempts to recruit her in his war against Pinhead since she can open the puzzle cube.Pinhead, on the other hand, sees Winter (a descendant of the puzzle box's creator) as an interloper in his domain. Pinhead exhorts Amy to help him against Winter, since Pinhead is her only way out of her current mess.Can Amy find her way back to stability and reality in this metaphysical war? -----Scores------ Cinematography: 9/10 Well shot in daylight and in the dim night scenes.Sound: 10/10 Strong and effective.Acting: 10/10 This is, hands down, the best performance I've ever seen from Kari Wuhrer. Simon Kunz, Paul Rhys, Marc Warren, Georgina Raylance, and Doug Bradley were all quite good.Screenplay: 7/10 A little weak on exposition, but not by much. On the whole, well-told.SFX: 8/10 Best in the series so far.

The first film is the best, the second film was disappointing, the third film was okay, the fourth film was okay, the fifth straight to DVD film was silly, and the sixth straight to DVD film was rubbish, I didn't have very high expectations for this seventh film in the series, even with the returning iconic villain. Basically from London investigative reporter Amy Klein (Kari Wuhrer) is sent to Bucharest, Romania for an assignment, she is shown a video tape where a ritual is being carried out on a woman, she is shot in the head at close range and is somehow resurrected back to life, the cult that did it call themselves "The Deaders". Amy has to investigate the origins of this video tape, she tracks down the address the VHS was to be returned to, and in an apartment building she finds a dead woman in the bathroom sitting on the toilet, and in her hand she is holding a puzzle box, the Lament Configuration. On her own she solves and opens this box and in consequence releases Pinhead (Doug Bradley), the leader of the Cenobites, but he does not want to cause her pain, he warns her of a coming danger. Amy continues with the investigation and follows the leads, and she tracks down the leader of the cult Winter LeMarchand (Paul Rhys), he is a descendant of the toymaker who designed and made the puzzle box, it still opens the portal to the dark world, he has the birthright to access the realm. He cannot open the box himself, he founded the Deaders to attract emotionally vulnerable people, murder them and resurrect them in the hope of creating someone who can open the box, and he kills Amy. Killing Amy and bringing her back to life causes her to relive her experience in the past of childhood abuse, but coming back to reality she opens the box and summons the Cenobites and leader Pinhead, they slaughter all the Deaders for their cheating of death, and rather than be taken by them Amy kills herself and causes the demons to disappear. Simon Kunz as Charles Richmond, Hustle's Marc Warren as Joey, Georgina Rylance as Marla and Daniel Chirea as Amy's Father. One again the story has developed more into a crime based tale, but at least there is a bit more of Pinhead and torture material to watch, it is a bit more worked out and interesting than the other two stories were, with the people who die and bring themselves back particularly, but it is still pretty trashy and cheap looking, and you just know all in all it is a terrible horror mystery thriller. Adequate!