Hellraiser: Hellworld

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Hellraiser: Hellworld

Directed by	Rick Bota
Produced by	Nick Phillips, Ron Schmidt
Written by	Clive Barker (characters), Joel Soisson (story), Carl V. Dupré
Starring	Stelian Urian, Lance Henriksen, Katheryn Winnick, Anna Tolputt Henry Cavill
Music by	Lars Anderson
Cinematography	Gabriel Kosuth
Distributed by	Buena Vista
Release date(s)	2005
Running time	91 min
Country	USA
Language	English
Preceded by	Hellraiser: Deader
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Hellraiser: Hellworld (also known as Hellraiser VIII: Hellworld), was released on DVD on September 6, 2005. It is the eighth film in the Hellraiser series. It was directed by Rick Bota.

1 Plot
2 Reactions
3 Trivia
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Pinhead returns in the eighth Hellraiser film to terrorize five friends who are Hellraiser fans addicted to an online computer game called Hellworld.

Lance Henriksen plays "the Host". His son Adam had been a fan of all things to do with Hellworld and Lemarchand, who killed himself thinking he was giving his soul to the Cenobites.

The Host, angry at Adam's friends for not preventing his suicide, organises a Hellworld Party for all fans of the macabre, knowing that the five friends will come. He learns all about Lemarchand and Hell and the Cenobite cult surrounding it, so that he can seem genuine and get his revenge.

[edit] Reactions

Hellraiser: Hellworld was not received well by critics, and has a score of 20% at RottenTomatoes ^[1]

[edit] Trivia

Pinhead and the troupe make a "real" appearance at the end in a slice-up scene when Lance Henriksen opened the Lament Configuration his son had.

Around the time of the film's release to DVD, Clive Barker voiced his intention to kill off Pinhead in a future short story, saying, "I want to give Pinhead a good send-off. I want to do it right. If we are going to get rid of the old guy, let's do it with some style." What was planned as a short story has grown into a 600-page novel that is still being written.