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Doug Bradley, Katheryn Winnick, Henry Cavill, Lance Henriksen, Dave Robinson ... see more see more... , Victor McGuire , Christopher Jacot , Khary Payton , Anna Tolputt , Gary J. Tunnicliffe , Michael Regan , Catalina Alexandru , Stelian Urian

Clive Barker's sinister creation Pinhead returns again in this horror outing, the eighth feature in the Hellraiser franchise. A handful of teenagers have become big fans of the latest Hellraiser video... read more read more... game -- so much so that they create a tribute website called "Hellworld.com," which simulates a digital Lament Configuration in cyberspace. However, Pinhead (Doug Bradley) is not at all happy with this turn of events, and decides to take action agaist the young people, luring them to a "party" where their frightening fantasies become a far more disturbing reality. Hellraiser: Hellworld also stars Lance Henriksen, Katheryn Winnick, Christopher Jacot, and Henry Cavill. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 35 min.

Directed by: Rick Bota

Release Date: September 6, 2005

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  • TheDudeLebowski65
    March 16, 2012
    TheDudeLebowski65
    This instalment in the Hellraiser series is a very poor attempt to deliver effective horror. The film contains all the ingredients of your typical horror film. Hellworld is a pathetic attempt at keeping the series going, and unfortunately this isn't the last sequel in the series.... read more Hellworld though a bad film, had a pretty interesting idea, unfortunately the filmmakers can't seem to make it work to effectively build the scares that you'd expect from a Hellraiser film. The concept is interesting, but the execution is poor. Director Rick Bota can't seem to deliver anything that would be of interest. Hellworld is a horrible film, though the concept is interesting, it doesn't go nowhere. Hellworld just goes to show that it doesn't matter whether the script is horrible, the filmmaker won't try to make a good film. The film is poorly made, and it just goes to show that the filmmakers simply didn't care if this film would be good or bad; as long as they made money with this crap sequel, that's all they cared about. This a film that like many in the series, uses the typical clichéd formula to try and create the horror. Sometimes it works, sometime it doesn't. In the case of Hellworld, it doesn't. This film is boring, and uninspired direct to DVD trash. The Hellraiser series becomes more dull with each straight to DVD sequel, and films like Hellword are proof of that.
  • matertenebraum
    May 1, 2009
    matertenebraum
    I've got to say i wasn't too impressed with this to be honest. I love the original hellraisers and i just keep hoping that they make at least 1 more decent sequel but thats looking unlikely.

    Having said that i've seen worse films but its seems to have gone down the the tradition... read moreal slasher film a bit too much. The real shame is that there's some good ideas in it. They just don't seem to have been pulled off.

    Don't go out of your way to watch this unless you're really into the series. It doesn't add anything, just offers a slightly different slant on the story.
  • kpn666
    November 10, 2008
    kpn666
    Ummmm.... no. Pinhead in the real world... a video game??

    A movie filled with debauchery and uninteresting sex... loads of it, with bucket fulls of fake blood and cheesy has-been horror scenes....


    why make things into slashers?? it sucks.


    Anyways... thats how c-grade horro... read morer goes.
  • Stinger839
    August 17, 2008
    Stinger839
    8-17-08: So far, this is the only movie of the Hellraiser series that I've permanently deleted from my drive after watching the whole series in order.
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    The main thing that needs to be said about this movie: don't see it. In this one, Lance Henriksen owns and runs the larges... read moret collection of Hellraiser related paraphern, set in a world where "Hellworld" is a massive role-playing game of sorts whose players are suspiciously exclusively hot and not a single person at the party requires eyeglasses or corrective dentistry (there is no such thing as this many hot RPGers, much less all of them being at one place together playing the same game). A group of Hellworld RPGers, bound together by a mutual friend who killed himself for the game, show up at Henriksen's mansion for a massive Hellworld party but soon find themselves getting picked off one by one by Cenobites. These Cenobites can actually walk and move, which is kind of a new thing for them. The Chatterer is back and lookin cool; Pinhead's outfit is losing its appeal tho and this costume emphasizes his nipples, which is weird and doesn't work.
    This is a straight forward twenty something trapped in a "haunted" house bent on killing them, except it sucks.

    And I'll SPOIL it right now: Lance Henriksen is their friend's dad and he is killing all of them out of revenge, and most of the Hellraiser stuff is them hallucinating after he's drugged the kids with hallucinogens and buried them with breathing pipes and cell phones, mentally torturing them until they die. At the end, the "real" Cenobites show up to collect him when he's fiddling around with his son's Lament Configuration and accidentally solves it.

    There's gore galore in this flick, but none of it is inventive or cool to watch. It's just a very "blah" horror attempt, which would be admirable on primetime tv but is just disappointing in fully budgeted feature mode.
  • YosemiteSamFan
    July 8, 2007
    YosemiteSamFan
    Part 8 (Hellworld) was like a Nightmare on Elm Street movie. A group of kids won a contest and were invited to a party at a haunted castle by Lance Henrickson.

    There's great spooky scenes and imagery. It doesn't require Pinhead to complete the story.
  • Ivan6655321
    September 18, 2009
    Ivan6655321
    The weakest film of the series, and also marked the first time where a bunch of disposable teenagers are the main characters, which is a very bad thing, a "Hellraiser" film finally succumbing into slasher film stereotypes. Even Pinhead is using butcher knives in this one, and the... read more twist is predictable. It's cool though to imagine Pinhead as a software developer.Ha!
  • PC79
    February 21, 2007
    PC79
    Makes you think twice about them online games and their conventions now.
  • sleepykiss
    August 31, 2011
    sleepykiss
    "Like a bad horror movie, isn't it?"

    Yes, yes, its Hellraiser 8. I cant believe they made 8 sequels. It doesnt follow the Hellraiser story line & the Cenobites only make brief appearances, but theres a Hellraiser (Hellworld) internet game, a Hellraiser (Leviathan) House and... read more guess who shows up? Doug Bradley & Lance Henriksen star, shame shame on Doug.
  • antwanleeroyphillips23
    November 1, 2010
    antwanleeroyphillips23
    hellraiser hellworld is by far the worst horror film in the hellraiser series I mean the first hellraiser was a classic but this was just terrible im very dissapointed rick bota the director of this awful film and the screenwritter carl dupree why was it because the writter neve... read morer saw a hellraiserr film welll look clive barker look what they have turned your creative boogeyman pinhead a awful peiece of gatbage and rick bota why I mean rick bota has done good things before this pile of shit like for example he did things for the classic horror HBO tv show tales from the crypt to this shitfest this film is awful and pinhead wasnt really the killer well hell you dont really see pinhead that much in this film dont see this film it is a waste of your money and waste of 1 hour and 35 minutes thats for sure.
  • theSwitchbladeSister
    October 22, 2010
    theSwitchbladeSister
    This movie feels like what a shitty Hellraiser sequel should be. Silly and slightly more contemporary with enough blood and gore to shut us up for at least the duration of the film. I enjoyed this movie a lot more just due to Lance Henriksen's performance.

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David Nusair
December 24, 2005
David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

...moronic... Full Review

Walter Chaw
October 17, 2005
Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central

The weakest kind of equivocal garbage. Full Review

Kevin Carr
September 22, 2005
Kevin Carr, 7M Pictures

There's a lot less story to Hellworld, although it does deliver in the sordid elements you'd want from a horror film - sex, violence and nudity. Full Review

John J. Puccio
September 12, 2005
John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis

The main characters wander into every room they don't belong in, and following the Hollywood guidebook for the terminally clichéd, they always wander alone. Full Review

Staci Layne Wilson
September 3, 2005
Staci Layne Wilson, About.com

Director Rick Bota and screenwriter Carl V. Dupré brought their A game with inventive little twists and shocks all throughout the gory proceedings. Full Review

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