Review #102: Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005)
This review was originally written in October 2020. October Movie Review #19- Hellraiser: Hellworld Okay. Now I know why people keep talking about the Hellraiser movies being bad- it's because of entries like this. When I read the one-sentence blurb about this film I expected it to be about a haunted video game, complete with cheesy 2000-era CGI and maybe some 90s-holdover "hacking" scenes. I'm kind of disappointed we didn't get that, because if we had, at least it might have been a fun romp through some cheesy effects and maybe a self-aware joke or two. Unfortunately, that's not what we got. In fact, despite several sources seeming to market this movie as being about a Hellraiser video game, it isn't. There is nothing in this movie about a video game, except that the characters in the movie used to play a video game based on the Hellraiser mythos. (There really isn't any impact from this on the script- except that the characters have a few lines talki...