The acting is not great (quite bad, actually) and the actors are not very convincing, especially Kevin Bernhardt as club owner JP Monroe. Even Doug Bradley as Pinhead is not convincing. Pinhead doesn't even look scary. On the contrary, he looks quite serene and sweet, actually. Pinhead is supposed to be this great demon, but he relies on mortals for help. Really?? The plot is ridiculous. Why is Pinhead now killing everyone in sight and not only the ones who opened the box? What's the purpose of the box then? The film became a slasher for no reason. Nothing about this film makes any sense. Why have the rules changed? Why are Pinhead and Captain Elliot Spencer separated if they're the same person? Oh, and what a silly ending...

If you're into serious sickness in your horror and skinless corpses getting down and dirty with each other before hatching murderous plots, then Hellraiser 1 and 2 should do quite nicely for you. They follow each other and tell the tale of a mysterious puzzle box that, when opened, summons the 'cenobites' – a race of demons who want to tear you apart for their own amusement. The first two films go together nicely and the second expands on the first. However, with part three we're introduced to new characters and the series seems to deviate from what's gone before. The only thing that links it is 'Pinhead.' And, if you don't know who that is then you obviously haven't seen any cover art for the franchise. He's the 'lead cenobite' and basically the only real reason you're going to want to watch part three. In fact, Pinhead, despite being the villain, is the most charismatic and interesting aspect of the whole film. Once you take him out of it there's really little left that's any good.It's about a female reporter who discovers the existence of the cenobites and the box that calls them and decides to investigate. However, the whole film is very dated. Somehow the first two seem to exist in a time and place that's pretty indeterminate. I had difficulty telling whether the originals were set in America or the UK. Here it's set firmly in nineties America – and it always will be. Everything screams nineties, with the possible exception of the acting, which in cases like 'Doc' could well be taken from the nineteen forties. I hate to pick on one actor, but the lead female's cameraman seems to act like he's reading his lines off a prompt card out of shot.At least he's not in it that much. The lead female is about as generic as you can get and just stumbles from one forced plot device into the next. Everything about the film screams 'low budget' and, despite a few nice moments of gore and practical (bloody!) effects, everything falls on Pinhead's shoulder to save.If you're a fan of the first two, know that the drop in quality is about the only thing dramatic about 'Part III.' Most of it is dire, interspersed with good scenes starring the bad guy who you might as well root for seeing as the heroes are so damn bland. Oh, and watch out for the dumbest cops ever to be caught on camera in the final act. They deserve everything that's coming to them.

First of all, be sure to see the full uncut version of 96 minutes, mostly you will find the cut version of 91 minutes or TV version clocking in at 89 minutes!3 year after part 2 the franchise was back. Nothing to do with previous parts from now on every entry stood on it's own. Of course Kirsty (Ashley Lawrence) was back for a moment to lay a link to other parts but that's all. Away from the UK up to New York. An owner of a Goth club the Boiler Room bought a statue that delivers pain. A journalist witnesses the arrival of a victim at a hospital full of chains and his head explode. Off she goes with a Goth chick to see what is going on. Soon they discover the Channard archive.It takes a while before pinhead comes in. The thing they did was putting pinhead in lighting so the mystery and atmosphere of part 1 is gone, the same happened with Freddy Kruger remember. But they were clever enough to actually tell the story of Captain Elliot Spencer (Bradley) who becomes pinhead as we know. So we have the story taking place in NY and the story taking place at WW 1. To see the horrors of pinhead you have to wait an hour, but once he enters the gore do comes in. Not that bad after all this entry. If you are searching for the full uncut the thing added is more blah blah done by Captain Spencer and some gore at the trenches. Further you go deeper into conversations. It's also the first hellraiser with nudity. For me better than part 2 and pinhead at his best at the church. Motorhead was also used in the score.Gore 1,5/5 Nudity 0,5/5 Effects 2,5/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

Hellraiser takes an alternate turn in the series focusing on a reporter caught in an epidemic of people around town being subjected to death by chain's and must solve the mystery with the help of a club girl.It was actually quite decent from effects, music and atmosphere of doom all across the land.A few continuation errors could've been patched up like Pinhead now being the king of hell, the stone statue from part 2 appearing in The store instead of hell and his minions coming back to life without rhyme or reason.The opening scene was a nice throw back to the first showing Pinhead before he turned and how he became the soulless monster he was at present.Yet he seems more humorless like he can't contain a bad joke and loses a lot of the menace that made him scary. Instead of offering justice he punishes anyone near him or in his vicinity betraying the rules set up for him.It tried to be a true Hellraiser film that revels the first two keeping the sex appeal, but the gore is tame and doesn't ring true to the epic blood bath of the first two. Even though Tina's skinning and the club massacre come very close.I like Joey and Tina as a fuel but it feels like an unused script staring Kristy and Tiffany yet they couldn't get them back.Its watchable to any die hard Hellraiser fan, but it doesn't have the ingredients that made the first two a horror master piece.Try it out and see for yourself.