I Was always wondering why did the Hellraiser franchise got so low ? I mean all of the Hellraiser movies had a good box office gross. And now they suddenly decide to make the franchise "direct to video" ?? I mean those are small time movies....
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Box office / business for
Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996)
Budget
$4,000,000 (estimated)
Gross
$16,675,000 (USA) (sub-total)
You gotta be joking right? This is only US gross and not counting rentals.
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...Still I Don't think this is the reason...Hellraiser 3 was poorly received but it didn stop Hellraiser Bloodline to have it's own theatrical release. A lot of parts from Friday the 13th franchise were weak and received a bad critical reaction same goes for Halloween movies but none of them went on "direct to video". I guess that will remain an unresolved question that will torture me for the rest of my life. Still if someoone knows "THE REAL REASON" please give ur opinion.
P.S. I Hope Dimension films and Rick Bota all burn in their own Hell for this and let Pinhead torture them for ruining his movies.
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I'm sure it went directly to video because it sucked.
That boy ain't right.
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It went DTV because Dimension stopped caring about horror and after the mid-90s decided to send franchises DTV. Including Halloween, which ONLY stopped when Jamie Lee Curtis got involved.. originally thye planned a DTV straight-sequel to Halloween 6. Then Scream started the slasher trend and a supernatural thrillerlike Inferno just wasn't what they wanted to deal with. in the end, Dimension just didn't care.
- Scarecrow
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Try the good old Irish "feck!"
shareBig difference in franchises. Hellraiser at 14-million is a modest hit but for New World Pictures a low budget company a big hit. Regardless at 14-million it made less than the lowest grossing Elm St (New Nightmare). Going on only the Paramount films. The lowest grossing Friday the 13th was part 8, which pulled in 14-million same as Hellraiser,
Only taking the films made in the 70s/80s when it comes to Halloween, Hellraiser was just a tad higher than Halloween 3 and 3-million more than Halloween 5. The big 3 at their peak made double if not triple that of Hellraiser. So there's really no comparing in terms of box office.
Someone mentioned 16-million for Bloodline, that's incorrect, it only made 9-million in the U.S.