Hellraiser - Inferno
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Actor: Craig Sheffer, Doug Bradley, James Remar, Nicholas Sadler, Nicholas TurturroBrand: Buena Vista Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-10-10
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Dimension
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Movie Review: Fifth Outstanding Entry In A Row
Summary: 5 Stars
The "Hellraiser" series achieves a rare and difficult distinction with "Inferno", delivering the 5th consecutive entry in a series to be outstanding. Generally, in a long-running franchise - even the best ones - it's to be expected that there'll be chapters that just don't measure up to the best. It would eventually happen in the Hellraiser series itself - "Hellseeker" being a decent movie but not on par with the first 5. Those first five, however, are of a universally excellent quality that ranks as possibly the best straight run of franchise entries of all time. Part of it may be achieved by the Barker effect; it seems it's very hard to do a bad Clive Barker movie - even on one where he's not directly involved - working on one just seems to bring out the best in everyone involved from the performers to the directors to the score composers, and on.
"Inferno" does not follow "Hellraiser: Bloodline" directly. Not to give anything away on that movie, but its box description does bill it as an anthology, with segments happening in the past, roughly the present, and the future. "Inferno" doesn't follow the ending segment, instead returning to the modern time frame; in fact it's difficult to pinpoint exactly where chronologically it takes place, which isn't a minus but adds to the timeless feel of the mythos. The movie begins as a story of a police investigation into a homicide, with Craig Sheffer turning in the best performance of his career as a heartless, totally amoral detective and Nicolas Turturro outstanding as his considerably more likable partner. The investigation leads to a search for a mysterious figure called 'The Engineer', who apparantly scares the meanest and baddest of Denver's underworld out of their wits, and the emergence of surreal, mind-bending weirdness that challenges reality.
The effects are outstanding, and ghastly new Cennobites are intoduced (awesome special effects). Longtime Hellraiser fans are in for a treat with the apparant return of a briefly seen Cennobite who hasn't made an appearance in a while, and Pinhead is at the peak of his sinister grandeur. It's been widely complained about the relative lack of screen time for the icon - and no, Pinhead doesn't appear as often as he does in some of the other entries. After taking on a more and more direct onscreen prescence in the last 2 non-anthology entries, "Hellbound" and "Hell On Earth", it's time for a reversal and to let the Cennobite prescence be felt and dreaded instead of constantly seen. Personally, I think it was a good move; "Hellraiser III" went about as far as you can with the direct, bloody onslaught of the Cennobites and made a classic movie, the change in direction in "Inferno" allows for a different kind of movie and very fresh, original, and equally horrifying movie. The actual appearances of The Prince Of Pain come as darkest epiphanies, awesome shreddings of human perceptions of reality and a terrifying look at the darkest corners of being.
And "Inferno" is also a rumination on the nature of evil. It's hard to elaborate without giving too much away, but in all the enigmas and open-to-interpretation angles, there seems to be a theme that killers don't just kill their victims, they kill the intended version of themselves, that God, or nature, or fate, or whatever one would call it, intended to exist before the individual's choice of evil was made. That probably sounds very nonsensical and confusing, but when you see the movie you may have a different idea of what I mean. Or maybe not; you could get a very different take on the meaning. This movie has apparantly been perceived in a number of ways, and it's good to once in a while have a movie that can be that way. I know this isn't the most popular horror movie out there, but I give it my personal vote as one of the most underrated, under-appreciated movies ever made. I'd even say it's one of the best, period.
A metaphysical horror masterpiece combining the psychological and the violent like few movies have ever attempted. Extremely recommended.
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