Hellinger

This is a documentary regarding Pinhead's brother, who was made redundant from the cenobites for having a crap voice and wandered the streets of New York, claiming benefits and doing Uncle Fester impressions for loose change. This is his story.

Which isn't saying much. Basically there's this girl who's scared of Hellinger, and her dad, right, he's given her gip about this and that and taunts her about Hellinger, who then appears behind her dad and rips his eyeballs out. Now Hellinger looks like someone fell into a bucket of light blue paint and is now standing under a spotlight shouting about it. You know how Pinhead was covered in pins and was menacing and had a weird voice? Well Hellinger can't even afford safety pins, looks like a bad actor, and sounds like he's suffered some sort of head injury.

Years after the dad-eyeball pulling incident, and the child is all grown up and still banging on about Hellinger. There's also some religious guys, one of whom is her boyfriend, who seem to have some connection with Dillinger. I wasn't paying that much attention as a lot of the film contains bad actors jawing at each other.

There's also a cop/cousin of the girl trying to get to the bottom of some sort of murder (I can't remember if he solved that one) and he also gets caught up trying to figure out who Hellinger is. I've never been to New York but I'm guessing all the cussing and threatening is basically how they talk to each other there.

There's also a bit where this serial killer steals Hellinger's giro and they all have an awful time trying to get a replacement at the local jobcentre, forcing Hellinger to become homeless.

The start of the movie showed promise. I was expecting a brilliant psychological and theological horror, sort of the Hellraiser. Hellinger's theology was somewhat based on Buddhism. That is impressive for a low budget, gore-mongering, sex laden horror flick. But there were two major problems with this film. 1) That scene where the rapist brutally murdered and raped that woman had nothing to do with the plot and was so disgusting I have spent weeks trying to remove the image from my head, it won't go away. This should have been left out of the movie all together. 2) All that imagination building up a great plot and it fell apart in the end. That is one of the worst endings I have ever seen, but I won't spoil it for you.

I don't say this often, but if you haven't seen this movie, don't! For the love of God don't! It is not worth it due to reason number 1 stated above. I gave this movie 3 stars only because it could have been good. What a waist!!!

The Village Voice calls it a masterpiece. A young woman's strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk. It's a story about life. And love. And becoming a woman. "Hellinger," now playing at Paradise 2.

I've already commented on this movie somewhat on the CARNAGE ROAD review. This is by far, Max Cerchi's best movie. It isn't important, not does it contribute to the independent horror movement, but it sure is one imaginative and violent slasher film.

An abusive father of Melissa was killed by Hellinger,a bald and white-skinned pseudo-Pinhead.Grown-up Melissa lives in New York and is plagued by nightmares of Hellinger.Her long-haired and tattooed cousin Kendall has been contracted by the police to find out about a series of gruesome murders in which people have been eviscerated."Hellinger" is an amateur horror junk that rips-off highly acclaimed "Hellraiser".Admittedly the acting is decent and the camera work is fine,but the audio sucks and few gory moments are amateurish.Troma's Lloyd Kaufman co-produced this low-budget horror trash.4 out of 10.Be afraid of the wrath of Hellinger.He will tear your soul apart.