Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Platypuschow Few franchises have nose dived to the extent of the Hellraiser series. What started out as an ingenious memorable horrific set of movies turned into bafflingly bad boring titles with little relevance to what we had learned to love.Hellraiser Deader is just one of many recent dire attempts at cashing in on Pinhead and though this one does feature Doug Bradley he is on screen for mere moments.Starring Kari Wuhrer who to her credit is better than usual here we have another confused tale revolving around a cult and the infamous puzzle box. Sadly once again it makes little sense and is immensely boring.Fans of the series will not be happy with this one.Hopefully one day Hellraiser will find its way home, for now it's well and truly lost in the desert.The Good: One tense scene Wuhrer is on form The Bad: Confusing plotPractically no cenobites at all Things I Learnt From This Movie: When entering a property and finding a corpse that you have no intention of reporting it makes perfect sense to leave your fingerprints everywhereAlike the real world the term "God help me" has never worked in movies

statuskuo Not sure why people hate this movie, but the set up and the subsequent installment of "Hellraiser" is a unique spin on the series. Not necessarily for the die hard Pinhead fans, but it plays like a Skin-a-max movie sure to win over the adolescent (in me anyway).director Rick Bota uses the locations to great effect. A rotten apartment in Romania, is gruesome, scary and is beautiful in it's sickness. Kari Wurher does a fantastic job at the sleuthing part. AND, there are subtle hints of a woman who has male trust issues. Key points NEVER voiced, but..things like combat boots, or having a oversexed banter with a co-worker. These are nice nuances of character that seem to have been missed because it is a Hellraiser tag and subtlety isn't what that franchise is known for. But I really liked this movie for having the guts to try something different. For those desperately wanting Pinhead as the central figure, this isn't your movie. For those who are into psychological punk'd out drama, this is a decent watch

KineticSeoul The previous 2 movies in this franchise didn't really seem like a "Hellraiser" movie all that much. As a matter of fact this seems like the third installment of a trilogy of people that are going through psychotic breakdown. This movie is watchable for being a stand alone flick, but wouldn't have gotten as much attention if it weren't for the "Hellraiser" title. The story is about a semi-goth looking journalist starts to investigate her sister's death and her sister's ties to a underground zombie cult of some sort. And the more she digs, the more horrendous stuff she unravels and finds more than what she bargained for. Now this WAS first written to be a stand alone movie, but decided to rewrite it connect it to add Pinhead and the cenobites. By having the cult leader who is the descendant of the guy that first created the puzzle box trying to wage war and control the cenobites and the hellworld. The protagonist caught in the middle of it all while dealing with her inner demons (this is the only somewhat interesting bit of this movie). The main thing going for this movie is the imagery which creepy, nasty, bizarre and almost underworld like (which breaks away from the silly and goofy aspects of the previous 2 installments). And the imagery is the only thing that kept my attention throughout this whole thing because when it comes to the story, it's easily forgettable. The series after the 4th installment is heading to the criminal investigation movie with a protagonist that constantly hallucinates over and over and over again. It actually got really old after a while to the point of it getting more annoying than suspenseful. Although forgettable I give this movie credit for the vibe and the decent build up, although the development is poor if that makes any sense.4.6/10

BA_Harrison Journalist Amy Klein (Kari Wuhrer) likes to live life on the edge, taking assignments that offer her danger and excitement; when she is given the opportunity to track down a bizarre cult in Romania, who are allegedly able to bring the dead back to life, she happily hops on the first plane from London to Bucharest (where, as it so happens, horror films can also be made on the cheap).Not long after her arrival, Amy tracks down the apartment of Marla (Georgina Rylance), one of the cult's members, where she finds the girl's dead body clutching a strange puzzle box. A video tape made by Marla warns Amy not to open the box, but the intrepid reporter doesn't listen and winds up having to face her demons (both metaphorically and literally)...Directed by Rick Bota, who also made Hellseeker (the previous film in the franchise), Deader is, for the most part, a confusing load of twaddle largely thanks to a script that was never originally intended to be part of the Hellraiser franchise, but which was adapted to accommodate the Lament Configuration, Pinhead and his Cenobite pals.To his credit, Bota does what he can with the resultant mess, actually managing to deliver a couple of surprisingly well-staged scenes—Amy trying to reach past Marla's corpse to get to a package, and Amy waking to discover that she has a knife buried in her back—but despite these memorable moments, some reasonable gore and a smattering of gratuitous nudity (including brief toplessness from Wuhrer), the film as a whole still continues the gradual downward slide for the series.4.5 out of 10, rounded up to 5 for IMDb.