According to the trivia page DEADER didn't start out as a HELLRAISER sequel . In other word Pinhead and his cohorts have been shoehorned in to a plot that originally didn't feature them . This explains a lot . Ironically the problem with DEADER is that very little else is explained in a film that has a very confused and confusing narrative .
The action starts at a London news agency . We know it's a London news agency because there's several posters on the wall with London landmarks . If the film had been set in New York no doubt everyone would be walking about the office wearing I LOVE NY t-shirts . Things like this make an audience notice that the location is blatantly filmed somewhere else . Anyway the news editor gets one of his go getting journalists to investigate the " Deader " cult who are based in Romania . Good job there's no famous Romanian landmarks or else they'd be splattered all over this movie . Mind you Romania is a cheap place to film so it has its benefits
!!!!! SPOILERS TO PREVIOUS FILMS IN TIRED FRANCHISE !!!!!
So the go getting journalists Amy Klein lands in Romania and as soon as she does this she starts having nightmares . Thankfully the producers don't come up with the plot of the previous two films where it's revealed the main protagonist is dead but that's hardly shining praise . Amy walks down dark cellar/corridor/street and something supposedly scary happens and then she wakes up in another scene . Repeat every ten minutes till the end credits . HELLRAISER 3 introduced characters being visited by Pinhead in their dreams but weren't part of the mythos from the original film . It's done to death here and just to tie in DEADER with the other films of the series there's a half baked throwaway line that the Deader cult is led by a descendant of Merchant from BLOODLINE
In summary this is a very poor movie . There might be a lot of mileage in HELLRAISER but subsequent productions shoot themselves in the foot by having repetitive plots with confused plotting . DEADER is probably the worst in the series and can be summed up by Joey ( Marc Warren in a wasted role ) who gasps " For ***** sake " which was also my reaction
The action starts at a London news agency . We know it's a London news agency because there's several posters on the wall with London landmarks . If the film had been set in New York no doubt everyone would be walking about the office wearing I LOVE NY t-shirts . Things like this make an audience notice that the location is blatantly filmed somewhere else . Anyway the news editor gets one of his go getting journalists to investigate the " Deader " cult who are based in Romania . Good job there's no famous Romanian landmarks or else they'd be splattered all over this movie . Mind you Romania is a cheap place to film so it has its benefits
!!!!! SPOILERS TO PREVIOUS FILMS IN TIRED FRANCHISE !!!!!
So the go getting journalists Amy Klein lands in Romania and as soon as she does this she starts having nightmares . Thankfully the producers don't come up with the plot of the previous two films where it's revealed the main protagonist is dead but that's hardly shining praise . Amy walks down dark cellar/corridor/street and something supposedly scary happens and then she wakes up in another scene . Repeat every ten minutes till the end credits . HELLRAISER 3 introduced characters being visited by Pinhead in their dreams but weren't part of the mythos from the original film . It's done to death here and just to tie in DEADER with the other films of the series there's a half baked throwaway line that the Deader cult is led by a descendant of Merchant from BLOODLINE
In summary this is a very poor movie . There might be a lot of mileage in HELLRAISER but subsequent productions shoot themselves in the foot by having repetitive plots with confused plotting . DEADER is probably the worst in the series and can be summed up by Joey ( Marc Warren in a wasted role ) who gasps " For ***** sake " which was also my reaction