The thing that drew me away from Hellraiser 3 was I wasn't expecting them to replace the rest of the Cenobites with really lame ones. I liked Barbed Wire up until he started breathing fire. The rest I just laughed at. The only Cenobites (other than the original) that I really appreciated were the ones from Hellseeker.
Though Hellraiser 3 did feature Pinhead the most, didn't it? That was my beef with the original, not enough of the Cenobites. But when they were there, those scenes were the best.
Hey, I really enjoy the hellraiser movies. I have seen 3 or 4 I think can anyone tell me how many there are, what they are called and brief outline of story as its really bugging me and you guys sound like the experts. I remember the first one is set in that house, then the one in the hospital, then one in space, is there also one that is like a cop/detective story. xxx
Hellraiser: Frank opened the box and was captured. His brother cut himself and bled on the floor, reviving Frank's body. He and his sister-in-law, Julia, lead men into the house so Frank can feed off them and become a whole person again. Kirsty opens the box and makes a deal with the Cenobites to give them Frank.
Hellbound: Kirsty is institutionalized where Dr. Channard is growing very curious about the box. As he tries to open the door to hell, Kirsty follows in hopes to bring her father back.
Hell on Earth: A man buys the column in which Pinhead rests. Pinhead wakes up and tells him to bring him victims in which help him escape the column. He is then set out to destroy the box so he will never return to hell.
Bloodline: A man in space is determined to close the gates to hell forever. Many generations of his family have tried and failed to close the gates in which his ancestor created with the box back in the 18th century.
Inferno: A detective solves the box as he chases a killer who leaves the finger of a child, who is still alive, at the scene of every crime.
Hellseeker: Kirsty's husband gives her the puzzle box for their anniversary. Soon after, they get into a car accident and Kirsty drowns. As time progresses, all signs are pointing to a homicide and not an accident.
Deader: A reporter finds this group of people who practice a ritual where they die and come back to life. Such things anger the Cenobites just as Frank did.
Hellworld is yet to come out.
Man, i just watched deader. What a boring movie. This was a movie that had nothing to do with Hellraiser, the Hellraiser story just happened to be involved somehow. I like the idea that people are just creating different sotries around hellraiser, other than expanding on the original story. It seems that deader diddnt work out to well though. I thought hellseeker was better.
Has anyone seen Hellraiser:Bloodline? Its actually pretty cool except when its on its current events which is oddly enough takng place on space station but is goes back and shows all the desendents of the Toymaker and what happened to them. I hope I have this right may not but who really cares that much
I own all the Hellraiser dvds.......
Hellraiser -awesome
Hellbound - awesome
Hell on Earth - decent
Bloodline - decent
Inferno - decent
Hellseeker - lame knock-off of Inferno
Deader - not so good
As far as the straight to video releases go.......
I really like Bloodline. Gives a much needed backstory to the Lament Congiguration. The stuff in the future I could have done without but oh well, I didn't write it.
Inferno is great. I liked the way they changed the direction of the series a bit. It reminds me a lot of Jacob's Ladder.
Hellseeker was a let down. Inferno worked because you didn't know the entire premise until the end of the film. Hellseeker brought nothing new as everybody knew the "twist" all the way through the film....as it was copied from Inferno.
Deader was pretty much just bad. It left so many questions that the film never bothered to even attempt to answer. For starters, how exactly do the Deaders come back to life? They did play with the mythology a little, even though they re-wrote the script (which wasn't originally a Hellraiser movie) to improve the continuity with the rest of the films.
The core of Hellraiser is sin/punishment. A person is condemned to hell because of their greed and/or lust. The series has strayed too much from the original concept that made the first two flicks great. Instead, they now focus on the Pinhead character and leave story/plot on the back burner. They need to get rid of Pinhead for a while........write stories based on the original concept and include other various cenobites with perhaps a cameo of Pinhead in one scene. I'm getting tired of them bringing down the value of films simply to show Pinhead on screen.