Is hellraiser a good horror movie?

Answer 1

Movie Explanations are my specialty!

Hellraiser (Entire Film Series): Demons called cenobites take people to hell because they open a puzzle box designed by a French toy maker.

Hellraiser (1987): A zombie uses his former lover to kill men so he can feed on their blood to become whole, but gets taken back to hell.

Hellraiser 2: Hellbound (1988) A quiet girl solves a puzzle, hell was briefly under new management, and bad guys died as humans and end up on a spinning beam.

Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth (1992): A man and his demonic alter ego join again, but are quickly sent to hell when stabbed with a puzzle box.

Hellraiser 4: Bloodline (1996): A man rambles on about his ancestors making a box, then blows up the bad guy in a ship that turns into a box.

Hellraiser 5: Inferno (2000): A detective pursues a bad guy that turns out to be himself through his own custom version of perpetual hell.

Hellraiser 6: Hellseeker (2002): A man goes through some strange stuff that turns out to be his personal hell for trying to off his wife for her inheritance.

Hellraiser 7: Deader (2005): An ancestor of a toy maker that can bring people back to life gets taken to hell, and a journalist stabs herself.

Hellraiser 8: Hellworld (2005): A deranged father kills most of his sons friends after he kills himself over an online game called Hellworld.

Answer 2

It's certainly a classic in the genre, but as a movie, it is a bit lacking overall. The budget is fairly small, the acting isn't phenomenal, the special and makeup effects aren't great, and it moves at a pretty quick pace...but it is still a fine film of the genre and worth a watch.

Answer 3

In the original novel "Hellbound Heart", the person (the Pinhead), was so fed up with various forms of lust, that he started looking for advanced forms of pain as pleasure, which opened a door to the Engineers, referred in the movies as Cenobites, who introduced him to extreme forms of flesh games, ultimately making him into the Pinhead.

The closest movie to the novel was Hellraiser II, directed by the author of the book, Clive Baker.