A shady police detective becomes embroiled in a strange world of murder, sadism and madness after being assigned a murder investigation against a madman known only as "The Engineer".A shady police detective becomes embroiled in a strange world of murder, sadism and madness after being assigned a murder investigation against a madman known only as "The Engineer".A shady police detective becomes embroiled in a strange world of murder, sadism and madness after being assigned a murder investigation against a madman known only as "The Engineer".
- Awards
- 1 win & 3 nominations
J.B. Gaynor
- Young Joseph
- (as JB Gaynor)
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- TriviaReports that this film originally began as a non-Hellraiser related horror script owned by Dimension and was edited to insert the Pinhead and the Cenobites are incorrect. According to movie's writer and director Scott Derrickson, it was pitched as a Hellraiser sequel and completed as such.
- Goofs(at around 8 mins) In the close up of Thorne dropping his keys in a dish near the beginning of the movie, his keys are for a Dodge vehicle, but he drives a Cheverolet sedan.
- Crazy creditsAt the very end of the end credits: Soli Deo Gloria (translation: To the glory of God alone)
- ConnectionsFeatured in Phelous & the Movies: Hellraiser: Revelations (2018)
- SoundtracksFrom Eden
Written by Michael Baber
Performed by Mod:1 featuring Lisbeth Scott
Produced by Mod:1
Courtesy of Brick Town Recordings
Featured review
Unworthy Follow-Up
It's important to note that the writers decided to take the series in a new direction with Inferno. The problem is that the direction they chose is far enough removed from the heart and soul of Hellraiser - from the very things that made it great - to be nothing short of off-putting and disappointing. It's a near impossibility to view this film without doing so through the lens of the straight-to-video format in which it was released. This film takes a budgetary back seat to its four predecessors and it shows painfully. It's very evidently a film script that the studio couldn't otherwise sell and, seizing on the opportunity, Miramax wrote in the Lament Configuration and, subsequently, Pinhead and slapped the Hellraiser moniker on it. A frequent statement fans of this film have used is that it must be viewed out of context of the Hellraiser series and entirely separate from the four films that came before it. When viewing it through that lens, Inferno becomes nothing short of a TV-movie-style production with some non-TV-appropriate profanities strewn throughout. The movie is bland, the acting is subpar and the plot is disappointing to say the absolute least. For a film that was promoted and released as a Hellraiser film with Pinhead on the cover, it's nonsensical to expect the viewer to enter into the film viewing it as anything but a Hellraiser sequel and, in that regard, it's not the worst movie ever made (and probably not even the worst Hellraiser sequel) but it definitely delivers an unhealthily large portion of boredom. Hellraiser: Inferno is an absolute pass. Not good.
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- baileycrawly
- Mar 2, 2020
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- Hellraiser V: Inferno
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- $2,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1
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