Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth

1992
18
1h 37m

IMDb RATING

5.5/10

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An investigative reporter must send the newly unbound Pinhead and his legions back to Hell.An investigative reporter must send the newly unbound Pinhead and his legions back to Hell.An investigative reporter must send the newly unbound Pinhead and his legions back to Hell.

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IMDb RATING

5.5/10

36K

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Awards
- 1 win & 10 nominations

Paramedic 1
(as Rob Treveiler)

Christopher Frederick

Paramedic 2
(as Chris Frederick)

Lawrence Kuppin

Derelict

Sharon Percival

Brittany Virtue

Philip Hyland

Brad

David Young

Bill the Bouncer

Brent Bolthouse

CD the DJ

Peter Atkins

Rick the Barman

Paul Coleman

Soldier 1
(as Paul Vincent Coleman)

Peter G. Boynton

Joey's Father
(as Peter Boynton)

Anthony Hickox

Soldier 2

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Storyline

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Trivia
The biggest issue was the Black Mass scene, which caused controversy in socially conservative North Carolina. Anthony Hickox had been refused permission to shoot in a real church, so he used a matte painting as a background to the altar. When the crew complained of sacrilege, Hickox told them it was no different than the countless Hammer horror films in which Christopher Lee as Dracula rampaged in churches.

Goofs
(at around 8 mins) When Joey bursts into the ER room, she witnesses a patient's head explode. As she staggers out however the patient can be seen lying on the gurney with his head very much intact.

Quotes
J.P. Monroe: Jesus Christ!
Pinhead: Not quite.

Alternate versions
The out of print Paramount DVD despite the R rating on the package is really a completely different version and features the uncut sex scene and uncut gore scenes from the unrated version and runs 93 minutes. It also contains two music alterations, most obviously the end credits which have a 'stinger' sound effect and then it jumps right into the song "Hellraiser' blaring over the soundtrack. The original end credits fade out with the classic Hellraiser score building over the soundtrack and playing over the credits for a moment before the "Hellraiser' heavy metal song begins.The sound quality of this DVD is awful and heavily compressed at only 98 kbps. It appears this print matches the Lionsgate Canadian dvd that had been available for years. The Paramount DVD is anamorphic widescreen while the Lionsgate release is not.

Connections
Featured in Heartstoppers: Horror at the Movies (1992)

Soundtracks
Divine Thing
Performed by The Soup Dragons (as Soup Dragons)
Music and Lyrics by Sean Dickson
Produced by Marius De Vries (as De Vries) / Steve Sidelnyk (as Sidelnyk) / Sean Dickson (as Dickson)
Published by Soup Music/Big Life Music
Admin. in the U.S. by Warner Chappell
Courtesy of Big Life/Mercury Records

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Featured review

6/10

going mainstream

In New York City, Pinhead, the puzzle box, and the other Cenobites are trapped in a pillar. J. P. Monroe buys it for his nightclub, The Boiler Room. Frustrated TV reporter Joey Summerskill (Terry Farrell) encounters Terri (Paula Marshall) at the hospital who brought in a victim of the club. She decides to investigate when her story is turned down. Terri turns out to be one of Monroe's many girlfriends and she has the box.

This is the franchise turning into a more standard horror. It has the skin-ripping fun. The characters work. I love Farrell from Star Trek and she's fine as the protagonist. I like the mind games from Pinhead. The WWI dream stuff can be better substituted with an additional character. It's trying to explain the monster when it doesn't need explaining. It does give a final solution which is very important. Honestly, Pinhead is a brilliant monster design. The new ones are pretty cheesy. The camera and the CD Cenobites can exists no other time. They even try some quippy dialogue although Pinhead is undefeated as a character.