Getting involved in a strange case, a police detective gradually comes to realize that he's far more involved in the crimes due to Pinhead and his demons and tries to stop it before it consumes him and his family.
This one is an utterly abysmal and barely worthwhile effort that doesn't have a lot of redeeming values. About the only thing that really works is the tension built up over the Cenobites and their few appearances here which are quite chilling in most cases. From the quick-shot glances of the faceless demon to the multitude of psychological tortures inflicted throughout the scenes in the hospital room or his flashback into his childhood home, these scenes with the Cenobites showing off their psychotic tendencies and mind-games are incredibly enjoyable and really seem to come from a better movie altogether. That's mainly due to the massive amount of flaws present which are so damaging and detrimental that there's hardly anything about this that's worthwhile. The biggest issue here is this one spends so much time on the investigation and his mental stability that the film doesn't even feel like part of the rest of the series. There's so little time here with the creatures here who have at most five minutes of screen-time that their presence is wasted on such a film, so there's barely a real connection here to the series in this manner anyway. Those scenes focusing on his descent into madness are some of the most boring, dragged out scenes in the series that they just don't have any real more or suspense to them continually appearing for about twenty second sand causing him to go off on a long tangent that just makes for an utterly boring and cringe-worth series of scenes. In the midst of all this searching, we get useless scenes just to show that he has a tortured family life, then it's back to the investigation, being almost as maddening as the search. To make it even worse, the investigation scenes, which took up the majority of the movie, were just criminally slow and boring, and it can be pretty hard to see this one all the way through. Those issues by themselves would give this one a seriously bad name, but then it throws on top of those issues one more act here with the heinous factor of using the entire plot as a morality tale just makes this one unbearable. Not only is the choice to do this incredibly insipid and wasteful, but the entire purpose for including it is outright illogical as this was never a part of the series to begin with as they were always about punishing people so the need to teach him a lesion despite being the perfect person to torment makes this the single biggest flaw in here and that makes this one near impossible to come back from.
Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, Nudity, drug use and children-in-jeopardy.
This one is an utterly abysmal and barely worthwhile effort that doesn't have a lot of redeeming values. About the only thing that really works is the tension built up over the Cenobites and their few appearances here which are quite chilling in most cases. From the quick-shot glances of the faceless demon to the multitude of psychological tortures inflicted throughout the scenes in the hospital room or his flashback into his childhood home, these scenes with the Cenobites showing off their psychotic tendencies and mind-games are incredibly enjoyable and really seem to come from a better movie altogether. That's mainly due to the massive amount of flaws present which are so damaging and detrimental that there's hardly anything about this that's worthwhile. The biggest issue here is this one spends so much time on the investigation and his mental stability that the film doesn't even feel like part of the rest of the series. There's so little time here with the creatures here who have at most five minutes of screen-time that their presence is wasted on such a film, so there's barely a real connection here to the series in this manner anyway. Those scenes focusing on his descent into madness are some of the most boring, dragged out scenes in the series that they just don't have any real more or suspense to them continually appearing for about twenty second sand causing him to go off on a long tangent that just makes for an utterly boring and cringe-worth series of scenes. In the midst of all this searching, we get useless scenes just to show that he has a tortured family life, then it's back to the investigation, being almost as maddening as the search. To make it even worse, the investigation scenes, which took up the majority of the movie, were just criminally slow and boring, and it can be pretty hard to see this one all the way through. Those issues by themselves would give this one a seriously bad name, but then it throws on top of those issues one more act here with the heinous factor of using the entire plot as a morality tale just makes this one unbearable. Not only is the choice to do this incredibly insipid and wasteful, but the entire purpose for including it is outright illogical as this was never a part of the series to begin with as they were always about punishing people so the need to teach him a lesion despite being the perfect person to torment makes this the single biggest flaw in here and that makes this one near impossible to come back from.
Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, Nudity, drug use and children-in-jeopardy.