Hellraiser III: Hell On Earth (1992)

In the continuation of our series review, Hellraiser: Hell on Earth is the third entry in the series and the first to take everyone's favorite cenobite leader on a walk through the city streets for a large dose of destructive action.

After the events in Hellbound, Elliot Spencer has been free'd from the grips of hell and is no longer forced to be the leader of the cenobites. Unfortunately, the force of life surrounding Pinhead is much too strong to just die and starts to take on a life of it's own, on earth.

Now, with the help of her dreams, news reporter Joey Summerskill must try to stop Pinhead and send him back to hell.

Directed by Anthony Hickox and starring Terry Farrell, Paula Marshall, Kevin Bernhardt and Doug Bradley reprising his roles as Pinhead and his human counterpart Elliot Spencer.

Being that the storyline is a little different than the other two entry's I was kind of skeptical about this film when I had first watched it. After about the halfway point of the movie I realised it was probably the smartest thing they could have done with this series and it made the remainder of the film a real treat to watch giving us a whole world of greatness.

The greatness I am referring too is of course all the new aspects they added into the film. First off, the new cenobites looked awesome and is always a great idea to keep secondary characters of this nature fresh just so people don't get bored of them and of course the scenery change was beautiful!

Having the cenobites in the streets of a city was another genius idea! Not only is it fresh, but they have a ton more they can do with the environment that doesn't just involve the use of chains with hooks on the end.

The storyline itself was a little confusing but like I've said in the past for this series and surely, it will be said again with some of the next films, it's mainly used to show off gore which again, everyone who likes the 80's type of slasher horror films, will enjoy this one for that reason.

Don't get me wrong, I love a great storyline, but most times in this genre you just have to take what you can get.

Better storyline than the first, more confusing that the one from the second but the new baddies and scenery really took the cake for me in this one and so i will give it a 7 out of 10!

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