“Hellraiser: Deader” is the seventh entry in the “Hellraiser” series and it’s just more of the same gory images and bad writing. This one is set in Romania and that’s about the only thing that will help you distinguish it from the other direct-to-video “Hellraiser” flicks.

Amy Klein (Kari Wuhrer “Anaconda”, “Eight Legged Freaks”) is a journalist that gets sent to Bucharest, Romania to investigate a mysterious cult. The group appears to be able to bring people back from the dead. However, she soon finds the sinister puzzle box and it’s not long before Pinhead (Doug Bradley “Hellraiser”) and the other monsters are causing her life to be plunged into darkness.

The Amy Klein character is not particularly interesting so I didn’t care what happened to her. The other characters are mainly unpleasant individuals that are into disturbing sex stuff and being part of cult rituals. There are even a few sequences that take place on an Eastern European torture sex train… I guess this movie made that a thing. We get to see plenty of them with little to no clothes and doing depraved acts. Don’t expect to see much of Pinhead as he must only show his face here for a couple of minutes.

The whole Eastern Europe sex train thing has to put this film in the same league as “Hostel” for making Eastern Europe look like a place of sexual sin and torture. If you liked the other direct-to-video “Hellraiser” sequels then this is another one. It’s just more of the same with more people getting ripped apart by chains, another meaningless story and more gore. Pinhead must appear just enough for this to qualify to be a “Hellraiser” film. It’s so obvious that so many of these sequels were never intended to be part of the franchise.