At this point, the "Hellraiser" movie franchise is more painful than pleasurable . After all, most of the sequels that've been made since "Hellraiser IV: Bloodline" weren't even originally envisioned as "Hellraiser" films. Determined to retain the rights to the property without spending the big bucks, studios execs at Dimension Films had the mythology forced into random horror movie scripts so they could churn out cheap DTV sequels at their convenience. As you can imagine, these films had such meh sights to show us — a far cry from the disturbing, thought-provoking masterpiece that is Clive Barker's 1987 original.
That said, some fans argue that the "Hellraiser" franchise went off the rails with 1992's "Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth," which sees Pinhead (Doug Bradley) and the Cenobites