Review: Hellraiser V: I Inferno (2000)
By William Pattison
For Horror Bob’s Blog
This time I’m reviewing the fifth film in the Hellraiser franchise…
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".
This is the fifth and first of the unfortunate direct to video
Hellraiser films Dimension produced. Most of these were
Hellraiser versions of already done films like Jacob’s
Latter (Hellraiser 6) and I produced reused scripts (Hellraiser 7). This film
is actually a retelling of the film Angel Heart.
Craig Sheffer is not bad as the corrupt detective Joseph,
the ususpecting target of Hell and Pinhead.
Also, this film features some very interesting Cenobbytres,
including The Wire Twins (that I amusingly call The Soska Cenobytes) and The
Torso (a variation on The Chatterer Cenobyte).
All in All this is one of the most watchable of these later
Hellraisers, but is is far inferior to Hellraiser Bloodline, which came before
it. Also, though Penhead appears in this film it is barely more than a cameo at
the end.
In the end though this film is ok it will be nearly ten
years before fans would get a Hellraiser worthy of the name. The only time I would recommend this
film would be if you were bored and couldn’t find a copy of Angel Heart.
Keep on Creepin’, Horror Bob’s Blog…
