An unfaithful wife encounters the zombie of her dead lover while the demonic cenobites are pursuing him after he escaped their sadomasochistic underworld.
Minor grisly fun, but don't expect the movie to linger when it's over.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
11 Jan 2008
fresh:
[Writer/Director Clive] Barker's dazzling debut as a director creates such an atmosphere of dread that the astonishing visual set pieces simply detonate in a chain reaction of cumulative intensity.
– Derek Adams,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
rotten:
It's a dark, frequently disturbing and occasionally terrifying film that suggests Barker's vision hasn't quite made the conversion from paper to celluloid.
– Richard Harrington,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
This is a movie without wit, style or reason, and the true horror is that actors were made to portray, and technicians to realize, its bankruptcy of imagination.