Wednesday 28 September 2011

Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth

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Year:1992
Country of origin:USA
Director:Anthony Hickox
Genre:Demons
Starring:Terry Farrell, Doug Bradley
Rating:4/5
IMDB link:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104409/
Tagline:What began in Hell, will end on Earth.
Favourite line:"I am The Way!"

Things take a change for the third installment, as the action switches from England to America.

Pinhead is now encased in a huge statue that a narcissistic night club owner has acquired.
Well, this guy isn't very pleasant, and tries to feed his girlfriend to the demon in the stone, but luckily she escapes him, and the night club owner becomes Pinhead's Ressurrection Lunch instead.
Pinhead then bursts out and sets about hunting his beloved Lament Configuration box.

Not as successful as the first two, this is still an ok horror movie.
Terry Farrell (Dax from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) is decent enough, and the set pieces are reasonable.
Pinhead parodying Christ's position on the cross whilst intoning "I am The Way" is particularly amusing, but the switch to America was a mistake, as now it just feels like A.N.Other horror franchise, even if it is a particularly good one.
It's downhill from here though, horror freaks.

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