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But we're just going to mention a couple, a sinister as being one that he directed, and the exorcism of Emily Rose. He also did the big blockbuster movies like Doctor Strange. So he's gone up in the world. The movie, of course, stars Doug Bradley as Pinhead for a whole two seconds. Craig Schaeffer is in this, and he's very well known for being the main character in Night Breed, another Clyde Barker brainchild. James Reimar is also in this, and he's been in tons and tons of stuff. He kind of started off in the Warriors way back when. As Ajax. Warriors, come out to play. The time I did that, that cook out of mine I was all drunk, and I dropped all the bars. I smashed. He was also a Dexter's dad in the TV series Dexter. And Sex and the City, too. Who's in that, too? Yeah. Samantha's beau. Oh, really? Yeah. Didn't she have several? Oh, yeah. Every episode, I think, was like, OK. Several talked about Sex and the City. I like that show. So the movie starts out. We get introduced to Joseph Thorn, and he's this hard-boiled detective, I guess you say. We see that he gets called to this crime scene, and it's this big mansion. In front of this fireplace in the living room, there's these chains. They're chained up to bones and flesh and everything that's just not there anymore. There's no body there anymore. It's just all mush. Jesus. There's a candle with a child's finger that's sort of embedded into the wax. And as a stand for the candle, it's the Les Marchand's box. Famous Hellraiser puzzle box. He goes home to his family. You know, I got a big case. I got to work on, and he just takes off. Yeah, sure, big case. He drives up to a bunch of prostitutes and goes and gets one with the help of this vial of drugs that he's got. She's all hot, too, like, yeah, right? Only in movies are prostitutes all super attractive. But she's like, you got any gum? He goes to the washroom, and he has the box with him, and he's just sort of rubbing it, and the thing opens up and starts turning. All of a sudden, he gets transported to, like, this house. Two of these sento bites, and they kind of go up to him and start kissing him, and they slide their fingers right into inside his chest. Chatterer comes, too, but it's only, like, half of them. He starts walking up the stairs. He kind of comes, too, after on the floor of the bathroom. And it was all a dream, I guess, right? He gets a phone call at the office from the prostitute in the room, and she's getting, like, fucking just slaughtered. He goes in to check it out, and she's just slaughtered in the bathroom. She's hanging there, all diced up and everything, and he starts digging deep into this investigation, trying to find out who this puzzle box belonged to and who the finger belonged to who's in the candle. We find out it's from a child. In the meantime, he keeps having these weird visions. He sees the tattoo of the sento bites in the back of that guy with that tattoo, right? You gonna fuck me or what? Yeah. He's got his snitch that he always goes to who's now driving an ice cream truck. Fucking hanging out drugs to kids and everything? He tells Joseph that there's this guy only known on the street by the name engineer who wants this box and has something to do with it. So he has to find out who this engineer is and why he wants the box and who these fingers belong to because as more murders happen, more fingers start popping up at the murder scene. Yeah. His poor child's only has so many fingers, right? And that's where we're gonna wrap it up. So if you wanted to find out what happens at the end of Hellraiser Inferno, finish watching the movie, but first is a Trash or Treasure? First the treasure of this movie and one of the biggest treasures is the story itself, right? Not your typical Hellraiser movie where a pinhead and his sort of clan of sento bites sort of just basically take things over. They're not at the forefront of this movie. Which is kind of a breath of fresh air. You need how they take this detective mystery movie and they use it as like the main plot and but have the Hellraiser part as the background. Somehow we're gonna get there. We're gonna get to pinhead at some point, right? So you're just waiting. Okay, when, when are we gonna get to the fucking hell? I wanna see him tear shit up. With the murders, you're not sure really who's doing them because the way they film it and everything, you're not sure if it's like a sento bite or if it's someone kind of dressed as a sento bite. Cause it kind of looks like someone wearing a mask, right? So it could be some weird like sento bite cult or is it the sento bites? You're not sure. So I kind of liked the mystery part of this. Yeah. And there's, there's a lot of cool ifs from both, right? It's like, if it is the real sento bites, it means that they've breached this world, that portal or whatever, which means they're in, they're on earth and they're kind of not supposed to be. So they could kind of raise hell if they want. The effects are pretty good for like a straight to video movie. You know, this year 2000, so CGI isn't rampant yet. So you're seeing a little bit of it, right with the tongues slithering out. Yeah, all the practical effects are really good. The sento bites look really good. Kills are really good. There's a great scene where that ice cream man's being whipped by that like- Cato nine tails. But with the hooks instead of- Yeah. And you don't even see it happen. You just see the legs of the person doing the whipping, and you just hear it and see all the blood and- Hear him screaming and everything. And then you hear that ice cream man music in the background cause they're in his truck. Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding. The atmosphere of this movie is, is another treasure. Dark, rainy detective type atmosphere to it, but I really like about it, you know? Yeah, it kind of harks back a little bit to the first one with Frank where he's got the box. Life doesn't excite them anymore. They need something more. Then they find the box and it kind of transports them to this world, but they weren't exactly up for what Store for them, right? I didn't want that much excitement. Yeah, just tore it back a little bit without the tearing of the flesh and limbs and such The next point we're gonna make is the pacing and this falls into both categories the trash and the treasure The treasure aspect of the pacing is that I like how it unfolds like a mystery eventually it gets like oh There's still like an hour Like when when is Something more gonna happen kind of neat thing is they use the centabytes and pinhead sparingly and it's like okay It's a little neat, but too sparingly Eventually like you're about three quarters into the movie like well, but when yeah Now is a good time for people to get torn apart Okay, now I want to see pinhead. Yeah, I want to see some real madness, but it's like oh Then it's more investigate more investigation more this weird dreamy shit And then you do see pinhead finally. It's this awful CGI What do you the engineer morphs with that morphing technology into pinhead like oh shitty Yeah, there are some silly parts of the movie too Which kind of take you out of the whole horror aspect one of them is that saloon scene? Recomes in there's that guy with like the holster and the guns Looking for the engineer Those cowboys know that karate all those cowboy karate guys doing those kicks and like what the hell Then that's it for that go away. Yeah Picks you up and puts you somewhere else. It's like a different movie Another negative aspect about this movie is it is kind of Blatant once you get to the end of the movie that this originally wasn't a hellraiser script I don't want to pay someone to write it Let's just put pinhead in this script right well I guess the fact that it's got the hellraiser name to it and everything lends credence to it And then they can make more sales off it right try to make it work And actually for the most part it does it just they they could have tried harder to make it work as a whole right Sure try it harder. Yeah You hate to say you just want to be satisfied for your own pleasure that it works out the way you want it to but I really wish it would have turned out to be more of like a A cult like a cenobite cult because it that's the way you thought it was gonna go Yeah, the end is kind of cool and what pinhead has to say at the end is pretty poetic and pretty awesome But at that point it's like it's not enough to make up for the last, you know Quarter of the movie, you know hellraiser inferno trash or treasure Treasure. Yeah, I'm gonna say treasure too. There's not enough bad about this movie to make it a piece of trash It's not a movie. I'd probably seek out to watch again Yeah, you know, but you're kind of glad that you watched it anyways Yeah, just to sort of continue the hellraiser Thing right after this movie that is kind of enough though Yeah, I kind of don't want to watch anymore Because you kind of know it's only downhill from here and this was and this was the borderline Yeah, yeah exactly. Yeah, it's funny that like almost every hellraiser movie to come out after this Was the same thing where it wasn't a hellraiser movie It's just some script that the studio had already for something else and let's just throw pinhead in there Right making a hellraiser movie and that's kind of why most of them from now on make no sense Or aren't that great exactly if you haven't seen it yet and you want to continue it on Definitely check it out. It's worth one watch. That's for sure because it is a treasure. Yeah, and until next time Keep drinking