Hellraiser III

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Movie
German title Hellraiser III
Original title Hellraiser III
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1992
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Anthony Hickox
script Peter Atkins
Tony Randel
production Christopher Figg
Lawrence Mortorff
music Randy Miller
camera Gerry Lively
cut Christopher Cibelli
James DR Hickox
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Hellraiser II - Hellbound

Successor  →
Hellraiser IV - Bloodline

Hellraiser III , also known under the reference title Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth , is the second sequel to the horror film Hellraiser - The Gate to Hell and was released in 1992. Directed by Anthony Hickox; the lead role was played by Terry Farrell , later known as Jadzia Dax in the Deep Space Nine series. On September 11, 1992, Miramax brought the horror film produced by Fifth Avenue Entertainment to American cinemas as a distribution partner with its subsidiary Dimension .

action

The ambitious television journalist Joey Summerskill has the assignment to report live from the emergency room of a New York hospital. But that night nothing happens there, which is why cameraman “Doc” is contacted by the broadcaster and sent to another part of town. Just as Joey is about to leave the gloomy hospital, a seriously injured man is brought to the emergency room. Chains protrude from his body, they are anchored with hooks in his flesh. The chains develop a supernatural life of their own and tear the injured to pieces. A scared young woman named Terri had accompanied the man to the hospital. Joey learns from her that he was found injured near the nightclub "The Boiler Room". Terri later gives the journalist a mysterious cube that is believed to be related to the man's death.

JP Monroe, young macho owner of the Boiler Room , acquires a massive, bizarre sculpture in the art gallery Pyramid Gallery , without realizing that in this patina-studded column of souls there is the manifestation of a demon - the Zenobite Pinhead . Monroe sets up the grotesque monolith in his apartment. When a young blonde woman, with whom he previously had sex, stands next to the sculpture, she is skinned and completely sucked into the gray sculpture. The Zenobite Pinhead comes to life, but is still too weak to leave the statue. When the initially shocked JP Monroe shoots Pinhead several times with a pistol, he realizes that earthly bullets cannot wound the malicious nail head. Therefore the muscular man agrees to an agreement with the soul-hunting Pinhead to procure further victims for him. JP Monroe lures the homeless girl Terri into his apartment, but is knocked unconscious by her with a brass knuckles during the fight . Terri also falls for the false promises of the demon - she sacrifices JP Monroe to him. Zenobit is now free, he appears in the night club, locks all the doors and kills the panicked visitors, whom he mistreats as if by magic with his meter-long iron chains and pointed barbs, with the chains flying across the music club in this bloodbath.

For some time now, Joey, the TV reporter, has been regularly sleeping in nightmares in which she has to watch helplessly as her father, whom she never met personally, dies in the Vietnam War. One night she enters a dream dimension in which she emerges from a trench full of dead soldiers and meets the British Captain Elliot Spencer. The former soldier who served at the front in World War I reveals himself to her as a benevolent spirit. He reports that for decades he was the Zenobite pinhead without ever remembering his previous human past. The current Pinhead is a split from himself. Joey is supposed to lure the demon into the dream dimension with the help of the cube, so that Captain Spencer can put an end to the horror.

When Joey wakes up, her TV is switched on and there is a report on the massacre in the Boiler Room . She calls her cameraman "Doc" to meet him at the scene. But the TV show was a fake, staged by Pinhead himself. When Joey reaches the nightclub, there are neither assistants nor media on site. Between all the corpses, under which their decapitated cameraman lies in one corner, the pinhead appears, he demands the die from Joey. She escapes and is pursued by Pinhead and gruesome monsters, the newly created Zenobites, which include Terri, JP Monroe and their cameraman "Doc", who have risen from the dead as vicious reincarnations. As an undead revenant , the boiler room disc jockey, who throws razor-sharp CDs at his opponents, joins the Zenobites. In the nightly streets of New York City all hell breaks loose under the influence of the ominous Zenobites, manhole covers explode from the asphalt and cars go up in flames. A rushing police force cannot stop the demons, and Joey finds no protection even in a church. When Pinhead enters the church, the blue and red church windows shatter. Standing behind the altar, Pinhead pulls two long nails from his pale skull and drills them into his palms, similar to the stigmata of Jesus Christ . As with a satanic ritual, Pinhead announces, laughing uproariously and with outspread arms: “ I am the way. “The enraged priest of the Church is forcing Pinhead to eat a piece of flesh and blood from his chest. And the terrible face explains: “ I will save those of you who come to me. "

The fleeing Joey is finally surrounded by the Zenobites on a construction site. She puts herself in the dream dimension in which her father is already waiting for her on a sunny meadow. She hands him the gold decorated Rubik's Cube. Until Joey realizes that he has fallen into a trap - because it was Pinhead who can be up to mischief even in the woman's dreamy consciousness and pretends to be her father in transformation. She then lures the demon to the dream level of Captain Elliot Spencer. Spencer merges with Pinhead and Joey manages to get to the cube. This turns into a kind of knife with which she stabs the Pinhead Spencer being. The being then becomes a shadow and disappears into the cube, whereupon the balance between good and evil is restored.

Suddenly Joey is back at the construction site. The pinhead and the other Zenobites have actually disappeared. She dips the cube deep into a still-liquid concrete foundation, obviously in the hope that the magical object there will be inaccessible forever.

The final scene shows the building that was erected on the foundation. Its architecture is frighteningly similar to the structures of the mysterious cube.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack to the film was released in 1992 on the Victory label and contains 12 songs that are played in the film, including the title song Hellraiser played by the British hard rock band Motörhead . In the video clip for the song, shot under the direction of Clive Barker , Lemmy Kilmister , the singer and bassist of Motörhead, plays poker against the film character Pinhead at a red table . The piece Hellraiser was composed by Ozzy Osbourne , Zakk Wylde and Lemmy Kilmister. The song was first released in 1991 on the Ozzy Osbourne album No More Tears . The song can also be found on Motörhead's 1992 album March ör Die . The individual soundtrack titles are:

  1. Motörhead - Hellraiser - 04:32
  2. Ten Inch Men - Go With Me - 03:23
  3. Material Issue - What Girls Want - 03:56
  4. Electric Love Hogs - I Feel Like Steve - 05:03
  5. Triumph - Troublemaker - 04:06
  6. KMFDM - Ooh La La - 4:01 am
  7. Tin Machine - Baby Universal - 3:17
  8. The Soup Dragons - Divine Thing - 3:51
  9. House of Lords - Down, Down, Down - 4:49
  10. Motörhead - Hell On Earth - 3:59
  11. Chainsaw Kittens - Waltzing With A Jaguar - 2:38

Feedback and awards

The film grossed slightly more than the second installment in the US at $ 12,534,961. The European premiere of the film took place in Frankfurt am Main in the Harmonie cinema as part of the Fantasy Film Festival there. The indexing of the film in Germany was lifted in December 2016.

The film won the Pegasus Audience Award for director Anthony Hickox in 1993. It was also nominated for several awards, including a. for the Saturn Award in the categories Best Horror Film and Best Make-Up .

criticism

"Third part of the" Hellraiser "cycle, now relocated to neon glitter, but this does not detract from the violence."

- Lexicon of international film

background

  • The shooting took place in the city of High Point in the US state of North Carolina . The backdrops for the fictional music club The Boiler Room were set up in a furniture factory.
  • As an actor, shooting Hellraiser III for Pinhead Doug Bradley marked his first work experience in the United States.
  • Since the production company New World Pictures , which was responsible for the first two Hellraiser films and owned the rights to the material, went bankrupt in 1990, producer Lawrence "Larry" Kuppin had to secure the rights to Hellraiser first before filming for Part 3 could be started.
  • For his work as a filmmaker in the horror comedy Spaceshift (original title: Waxwork II: Lost in Time), the director Anthony Hickox was commissioned to realize the third part of Hellraiser.
  • Even before the release of the second Hellraiser film Hellbound , initial discussions took place with the creator Clive Barker and the producer Christopher Figg about a third sequel. For other Hellraiser films, Clive Barker intended to focus on the character of the Queen of Evil Julia Cotton, but the actress Clare Higgins refused to take on the role of Julia Cotton again in a third film. Other discarded ideas included a story set in ancient Egypt , with a pyramid as the architectural materialization of the fabled Lament Configuration from the first two parts. Subsequently, the original creator, Clive Barker, was no longer involved in the creative work process until post-production of the third part.
  • The film team wanted to go to a real church for the shooting of the scene in which Pinhead was up to mischief in a church. However, when the vicars there were given the script to read in advance, all the church representatives asked unanimously refused to create a horror film in their holy walls that blatantly flirted with satanic elements.
  • The heavy metal band Armored Saint has a short guest appearance, in a scene in the lavishly partying music club The Boiler Room the group plays their song "Hanging Judge", which is on the 1991 album Symbol of Salvation .
  • The industrial metal band KMFDM , which is featured on the soundtrack with the song Ooh La La , originally comes from Hamburg and was founded in 1984 by Sascha Konietzko and Udo Sturm.
  • In the dream scene, in which the father of TV reporter Joey Summerskill transforms into the terrifying figure Pinhead in a smooth transition, the plot uses morphing as a special effect. At the time the horror film was made, the then innovative technique of morphing established itself in the film industry as a design tool. The video clip of the Michael Jackson song Black or White from 1991 contributed to this.
  • In addition to the Hard'n'Heavy soundtrack , the composer Randy Miller wrote a classic orchestral work for the film music within three weeks , recorded by the Russian ensemble The Symphony Orchestra and Choir of Mosfilm Studios under the direction of conductor Sergei Scripka .
  • In the film, the screenwriter Peter Atkins plays a small supporting role as a bartender at the music club The Boiler Room . In addition, Atkins, who met his future wife during the filming, mimes one of the new Zenobites with barbed wire wrapped around his head called Barb Wire Head , who can spit fire. Director Anthony Hickox himself plays a falling soldier in the Vietnam War for a few moments during the nightmare scene of Joey Summerskill, played by actress Terry Farrell.
  • In 1974 the actor Ken Carpenter, who can be seen in the role of the cameraman Doc and later becomes the evil Camerahead Cenobite , starred in the horror film The Phantom in Paradise by director Brian De Palma .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Hellraiser III . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Box office results on imdb.com
  3. ↑ schnittberichte.com, accessed on December 30, 2016
  4. ↑ Hellraiser III. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ Video interview with director Anthony Hickox in the documentary Raising Hell on Earth , directed by Jake West , 14 minutes, 2004, produced by Nucleus Films and Arrow Video, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 3) , 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  6. ↑ Video interview with actor Doug Bradley in the documentary Under the Skin 3 - Doug Bradley on Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth , directed by Jake West , 14 minutes, 2004, produced by Nucleus Films and Arrow Video, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay- Box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 3), 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  7. ↑ Video interview with director Anthony Hickox in the documentary Raising Hell on Earth , directed by Jake West , 14 minutes, 2004, produced by Nucleus Films and Arrow Video, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 3) , 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  8. ↑ Video interview with actor Doug Bradley in the documentary Under the Skin 3 - Doug Bradley on Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth , directed by Jake West , 14 minutes, 2004, produced by Nucleus Films and Arrow Video, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay- Box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 3), 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  9. ↑ Video interview with director Anthony Hickox in the documentary Raising Hell on Earth , directed by Jake West , 14 minutes, 2004, produced by Nucleus Films and Arrow Video, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 3) , 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  10. ↑ Video interview with director Anthony Hickox in the documentary Raising Hell on Earth , directed by Jake West , 14 minutes, 2004, produced by Nucleus Films and Arrow Video, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 3) , 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  11. ↑ Video interview with screenwriter Peter Atkins in the documentary Hell on Earth - Die Geschichte von Hellraiser III (The Story of Hellraiser III) . Directed by K. John McDonagh and Christopher Griffiths, 32 minutes, 2015, produced by Cult Screenings UK Ltd. and Dead Mouse Productions, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 4), 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)