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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs  Personally it's a case of do you like the Cenobites, Jason Vorhees et al. If you do then you should get something out of all the films.
It's horror and exploitation after all. We all want to see Pinhead slaughter someone rather than anything else...don't we? |
I'm not so sure - I'd take the tighter scripts and dark foreboding of the original
Hellraiser films over the later sequels. Apparently all the films post-
Bloodline were just stand-alone stories / half-completed scripts which just shoe-horned Pinhead and the gang into the story for the sake of extending the franchise. This is why they're far from spectacular story-wise and Pinhead often feels like he's playing a bit part. Then there's part III which sees Pinhead starting to become more of a caricature...
This is where a lot of franchises lose their way (at least for me) when they turn their villains into pantomime characters.