Pinhead is now hanging out in a dilapidated house with another cenobite character named, 'The Auditor', where they are coaxing sinners to confess their misdoings before being subjected to some savage blood/puke rituals. Meanwhile, a team of detectives are gathering up clues from a string of mysterious murders that lead one of them to the house and the movie pretty much goes completely nowhere from there...
From what little I remember about the previous film in the series, "Revelations", this one is slightly better, but still a colossal bore with an incredibly weak script, dull, lifeless characters, shitty effects... This one has it all. The make-up job on 'The Auditor' was awful, rubbery shit to the point where his mouth barely moved and a certain character that is seemingly mutilated to all hell (just off-screen) appears in the next shot surprisingly intact, though covered in blood. Needless to say, they copped out heavily with the gore in this one. Of course, they don't bring Doug Bradley back as Pinhead (because that may somewhat appeal to genre fans and we can't have that...) and the character may very well be the LEAST imposing he's ever been in the franchise. His minuscule screen-time is mostly spent sitting in a chair, facing a wall, and during the anti-climactic bullshit ending he in no way comes across as otherworldly or intimidating. He just talks in a non-threatening, British accent. That's enough on this one. Don't bother with it.
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