Hellraiser V - Inferno

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Movie
German title Hellraiser V - Inferno
Original title Hellraiser: Inferno
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2000
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
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Director Scott Derrickson
script Paul Harris Boardman ,
Scott Derrickson
production WK Border ,
Joel Soisson
music Walter Werzowa
camera Nathan Hope
cut Kirk M. Morri
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Hellraiser IV - Bloodline

Successor  →
Hellraiser: Hellseeker

Hellraiser V - Inferno is an American horror film and the fifth in the Hellraiser series. After the failure of Hellraiser IV, this film was produced directly for the video and DVD market and released in 2000. The film is also known as Hellraiser 5: Inferno . Unlike its predecessors, the film draws its horror less from the direct display of naked violence and tortured people than from the implied horror between dream and reality.

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Joseph Thorne is a police officer who has gotten on the wrong track. He cheats on his wife with prostitutes, he takes drugs and forges evidence. After the gruesome murder of a former classmate, Thorne takes a mysterious die from the crime scene and discovers a severed child's finger. While looking at the cube, he discovers a mechanism in it and opens the puzzle. Shortly afterwards, a prostitute with whom he had spent the night dies. As he tries to cover his tracks, he becomes aware of a criminal genius known only as the "engineer" in criminal circles.

All traces lead to the body modification milieu . But every potential source he visits dies later. A finger is always left behind. He is also plagued by visions of mysterious beings. When both his partner and his boss suspect him of committing the murders or at least driving the wrong way, he is sent to a psychologist. After the first casual session, the psychologist tells him about a former police officer who was driven insane by the "engineer". The box conjures demons, the so-called cenobites. The murders are getting closer and closer to Thorne. It hits his parents, his partner, and ultimately his daughter and wife. The psychologist appears at the crime scene and turns into Pinhead, the leader of the Cenobites. He reveals to him that he is the murderer of all these people and that the fingers at the crime scene come from him.

Thorne wakes up the night he opened the cube. At first he thinks he was dreaming. But when events repeat themselves, he sits down at his desk and puts a bullet in his head. He wakes up again the first night. He leaves the room and ends up in his old nursery.

Awards

  • The film won the Video Premiere Award 2001 in the Best Visual Effects category .
  • Two nominations for the Video Premiere Award: Best Editing and Best Sound.
  • In the German version, ages 16 and up, the film ends before Thorne wakes up and realizes that he wasn't dreaming. So there is a kind of happy ending here.

Reviews

“In the fifth episode of the horror series, Clive Barker's infernal creatures and their bloody misdeeds take up little space. Dramaturgically half-baked and overloaded, the superficially moralizing film quickly loses any interest in its pale protagonist. "

- Lexicon of international film

Trivia

  • The budget was about 2 million US dollars .
  • The pinhead only makes a few, brief appearances.
  • The German rapper Kaisaschnitt founded a label called Hellraisa Records in 2004, through which he sold his music. He took some audio tracks from the 5th part of the Hellraiser films and built them into his albums as skits. He was one of the first German rappers whose style was based on horror films.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ schnittberichte.com accessed on May 2, 2014
  2. ↑ Hellraiser V - Inferno. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Budget on imdb.com