Hellinger

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.

I give this film a 1 because negative numbers aren't available. Terrible effects and dialogue. But the acting is the WORST!!! The long haired "hero" is lame and an embarrassment to long hairs everywhere. Dude can't act and his dialogue is flat. I'd say the part with the lead actress rubbing "blood" all over her breast is typical but I had to laugh when she was screwing the guy and there was a fuzzy pink distortion in the pubic area when the covers dropped down. Hilarious!!! If you need to blur something.... REMOVE IT FROM THE FILM!!! Don't waste your time

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.

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!!!

Hellinger (Wayne Petrucelli), a demonic spirit who looks like he failed to graduate from Cenobite school and talks as though he has severe brain damage, likes to torment a woman named Melissa (Shana Sosin), killing those around her and then boring the poor girl with protracted monologues about the devil and stuff (all delivered in his insufferable trademark drawl).

Melissa's cousin Kendall (Artie Richard) is a tough cop with a serious set of inks and a cool leather coat; he is investigating a murder, but seems to spend more time talking to Melissa's coma-inducing psychiatrist in an attempt to help her with her problems.

Meanwhile, Melissa's boyfriend is out doing very nasty things to women with a knife...

Even by Troma's low, low standards, Hellinger is very poor viewing: the muddled Hellraiser-style storyline is never scary, the dialogue is tedious and uninteresting, the acting atrocious (with Petrucelli taking the prize for worst actor), and the whole cheap-assed production reeks of amateurishness. Hell, the extreme levels of ineptitude displayed by all involved didn't even manage to make me laugh, so the film doesn't even score marks there!

However, narrowly saving this piece of garbage from the shame of receiving a 1/10 are a couple of completely gratuitous sex scenes (just like dwarfs and kung fu, they always make a film better) and a murder scene that manages to shock thanks to the over-the-top manner in which the victim is dispatched: she is brutally punched in the face, repeatedly stabbed between the legs with a knife, eaten out by her attacker (yes, literally eaten out!!!), and then raped. This is all done in the dark, and so isn't necessarily that graphic, but we see enough to get the message: this killer is one very sick puppy!