Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
Nowhere near as repulsive as the first two and completely misses the point of Pinhead. To me Pinhead is the guy that shows up 10 minutes away from the ending to tell the characters that they done fucked up. He's not a slasher villain. He's shot from below, in an otherworldly jail cell with chains hanging from the ceiling, and there's a smoke machine in the corner. But here he's basically Freddy Kruger, specifically in Freddy's Revenge, stepping into a mundane real life setting and showboating in front of dozens (or a few hundred) of people at once, dishing torture like he's an X-Men villain. Instead of an ominous figure of portent he's just a cackling maniac with cheesy one-liners.
The cenobites are all fairly ridiculous and themed around singular mundane objects like they're Pokemon (have they made a car keys Pokemon yet?). There's cigarette cenobite, piston cenobite, CD cenobite (every movement comically accompanied by whirring "I'm a robot" sounds), videocamera cenobite, flaming cocktail cenobite... I can't take any of these guys seriously.
The main lady is very pretty but a horrible actress. She can't work a single terrified look on her pretty face the whole movie, even when her big debut is watching a dude asplode in the emergency room (and somehow leaving without any evidence - great reporting, plucky girl reporter). She also gets to run across empty streets and empty construction sites and empty fields a lot, but has to do it slow enough for the camera to follow her, so it comes across more like prancing, less like fleeing from demons.
Not to pick too much on her. Everybody's a horrible actor in this, so it's probably a director thing. Movie opens with the twunk version of Bobby Briggs from Twin Peaks waltzing into an art gallery at night and knowing my Clive Barker I assumed he was a male whore but no, twunk owns a nightclub (uh huh) and is straight (uh huh). He even does the Patrick Bateman thing of flexing his arms while he fucks (women). He buys a sculpture with the Lament Configuration embedded in it, somehow, and unwittingly brings Pinhead to his nightclub. This results in Pinhead comically being trapped and immobilized inside a cinderblock for most of the movie, his face alone exposed as he kinda desperately bargains with whoever's left in the room. Not a very dignified turn.
Twunk Bobby Briggs accidentally sacrifices a floozy to Pinhead (he has a fuck pad in the back of his nightclub) and is asked to bring more. I'm not sure what's in it for Bobby. When he finally brings him someone, instead of handpicking any bimbo from his club (he has an entourage of them in any other scene), he decides to call the one chick who left him - and ironically she sacrifices him instead (resulting in another unintentionally funny scene where the camera patiently holds on her for a little too long she tries kicking his limp body towards an immobilized Pinhead, to no avail).
Anyway.
