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Post by CT on Jun 15, 2007 4:22:10 GMT -5
Hellraiser: Deader (2005) Directed by Rick Bota"A female reporter Amy Klein (Kari Wuhrer) for a London newspaper is sent to Bucharest to investigate an underground suicide cult (the Deaders) who can bring back the dead. She is quickly drawn into their dark world and soon can see no way out other than to join them. The Cult is lead by Winter (Paul Rhys). At the address given to her by her editor, Amy finds the corpse of a girl and a puzzle box." |
Rate this movie one a scale of 0 - 5 stars. (5 being the 'best'!)
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Post by GL on Jun 16, 2007 10:22:33 GMT -5
“Hellraiser VII: Deader” is a very entertaining entry in the series.
**SPOILERS**
Reporter Amy Klein (Kari Wuhrer) is assigned to a case involving a strange new cult called the Deaders and their leader, Winter (Paul Rhys) who promises eternal life for his followers if they commit suicide and allow him to bring them back to life. Thinking it’s nothing but a rumor, Amy searches Romania for the elusive Winter, to no avail. After getting into hot water with the authorities over a simple misunderstanding at a train station, her boss, Charles Richmond, (Simon Kunz) comes in to see what she has done with the story. Following her only lead, she descends into Romania’s underground and finds Winter and his followers. With Amy introduced into Winter’s world, Pinhead (Doug Bradley) doesn’t appear to happy about what the cult is doing, and uses Amy as a pawn to bring about a war with the cult.
The Good News: This was actually not that bad, and don’t know why a lot of people don’t like it. While not being very overtly gory, this is certainly a bloody film. There is a lot of blood spilled in this one, and while the deaths are pretty violent, there is more blood in dealing with the aftermaths of everything than the deaths. It’s a pretty nice change, as it keeps the gore in the movie while not having to resort to deaths we’ve all seen before. I welcomed it greatly. It lead to a couple memorable scenes anyway: the scene in Amy’s bathroom, which features a twist that is completely original and really mind-blowing, and the train station. That one is a little on the funny side, but the blood still appears to make it worth while. The deaths we get are pretty graphic, so they do keep the graphic-ness of the movie’s other scenes in there as well. There’s also one scene I really want to comment on: the scene in the friends’ bathroom. How they came up with that scene, I don’t know, but it is the best scene in the movie and is quite a highlight. See it just for that scene alone. This is also a pretty good mystery movie for the last half of the film, as it features a well-thought series of clues to finally lead us to what it wanted to do.
The Bad News: The endless jumping around and transporting of characters around in different locations got very tiring after a while. It always happened right around a particularly scary part, which got on your nerves. This happened quite frequently, and it was a real distraction and the only thing I didn’t really like about this one.
The Final Verdict: The only thing really wrong with this one is too many transporting around, wondering if what happened was a dream or not. The film is pretty good, and should definitely be sought after by those that want to enjoy a cheap film filled with blood and gore. Hellraiser fans may want to exceed caution, as it isn’t a true film in the series and might be a little off-setting for most.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, Nudity, Graphic Language and drug use
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Post by Jen on Aug 13, 2007 11:15:00 GMT -5
Again, not bad (I'm beginning to think I just have a soft spot for these films...lol ). Certainly entertaining enough, but it gets a tad confusing at times and this one also doesn't seem like a Hellraiser movie in a lot of ways. Also, I wanted to know more than they let me know (about Winter mostly). I will give it a weak 3.
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Post by GL on Aug 14, 2007 10:22:46 GMT -5
I kinda like this one as well, and felt the same way you do, that's it's not a Hellraiser film like the first ones where. Just one more to go, and it's a guilty pleasure fave so you should be in luck.
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Post by Jen on Aug 14, 2007 11:11:46 GMT -5
I kinda like this one as well, and felt the same way you do, that's it's not a Hellraiser film like the first ones where. Just one more to go, and it's a guilty pleasure fave so you should be in luck. Actually I have already seen Hellworld. It was the first sequel I watched after part 2. And I did enjoy it. Already voted in the thread. So I am all done with the films, and I must say, overall, I enjoyed them far more than I expected to. I guess a few of them are new guilty pleasures of mine.....
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Post by GL on Aug 15, 2007 10:09:38 GMT -5
Now I remember, that's right. I kinda like the series myself, great guilty pleasures as you said, not great but good enough.
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Post by abraxas on Dec 8, 2009 11:35:28 GMT -5
Never watch it, nor will I, Im sure it sucked like all of the others after part 4, which was only half good itself.
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Post by GL on Dec 9, 2009 10:51:14 GMT -5
Give it a chance, it's a lot better than expected.
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Post by The Walking Dude on May 30, 2011 1:35:01 GMT -5
Certainly entertaining enough, but it gets a tad confusing at times and this one also doesn't seem like a Hellraiser movie in a lot of ways. Originally Deader was a script that Dimension had the rights to,but never got it off the ground.So they reworked it into a Hellraiser movie.So that's why it probably feels different.I don't know though,as I still haven't seen it.I'm planning to rectify that in the near future though.
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