Hellraiser VII: Deader or Hellraiser VIII: Hellworld?

OK, I've got finally the answer to my question. I just saw Hellworld, and I liked it more than Deader (Deader was really boring...ZZZzzzZZZzz).

I had to quess at the Deader plot and I liked Hellworld. I liked it for being a horror movie, not a Hellraiser movie. Pinhead is not in it a lot so if you want Pinhead only watch the first 2, but if you want a tolerable horror movie than watch Hellworld. Deader they can keep, I still have so many questions about that one!

both very bad but yer 'deader' is a better crap movie! hellworld, was just slasher tat, bring back more pinhead! not his freddy style camero appearances!!

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It really kills to read things like
"Pinhead IS Hellraiser!!!!"
when clearly, he's not.
Go and watch the original again. Pinhead appears about 5 minutes. He has a few memorable lines, and then the movie is done (except for the Dragon part).
Even better, read "The Hellbound Heart" by Clive Barker (wait, wasn't he the guy the MADE the movie and STARTED the franchise? And then subsequently made the bad judgement of selling the rights...).

Hellraiser is about desire, greed, lust, human flaws and crippling shortcomings that shape and ultimately can destroy the human soul. It's not about gore, or cleavage, or even cenobites. Of course they're cool. The are cool because they are so rare. If the cenobites kept tanking around the entire movie like Jason or Freddy, the thing would become unbearable.
Except for Pinhead, what dialogue would they have except for *chatterchatterchatter* "uuuuuuuuuuuugh..." and "We'll tear your soul apart!"?

Naturally, the last 4 movies, except maybe Hellseeker, spelled doom for the franchise. It's simply not original anymore, and the scripts used are poor adaptions from stories that had entirely different agendas.
Still, I think Hellworld actually manages to pull off spanning the gap between teenie slasher and cyber horror. Or it falls slightly short of that. The last Pinhead line is a cheap shot, but maybe the entire thing will bring some kids who've only had to crap like Scream and Japanohorror like The Ring to watch a couple of really good movies like for example Hellraiser 1.

As for the question about the Hellraiser series: There are persistent rumours about an animated adaption of the Tortured Souls. Some sites also claim that Dimension is bidding for the rights on Undying.
However, with Barker currently busy with the Abarrat series and his line of Jump Tribe Plushies, I don't think it's going to happen soon. The former is a really enjoyable read, if you can't stand the Harry Potter crap. For the more mature minded, I can easily recommend Barker's "Coldheart Canyon".

I actually liked Inferno and Hellseeker a lot and think, they are A LOT better than Hellraiser 3 + 4 (but of course worse than 1 + 2). I recently saw Deader and Hellworld. I think theyre both ok, but liked Deader a bit more (Hellworld looks too much like a teenie slasher the first hour and really good is only the last 1/2 hour).

im Watching hellraiser hellworld as i type & so far they are both awsome

Ace Lion/ Williace the clown/ Bigwinwill / Blood-Hunter/ Captain "Bloody" William Flint

In my opinion... they should've stopped at Inferno... and also shouldn't have made #3... 1&2 are the best... bloodline was necessary because it explains Pinhead's future... Inferno had its' creepy moments... the rest of the scripts should've been nuked, I saw Deader... it was completely pointless showing how Ice fails because it's apparent in Bloodline that he failed because Pinhead isn't dead in that one (yet), as for Hellworld... well I didn't even bother with that one because Hellworld sucked enough as it was... honestly Deader had what like 5 minutes of Pinhead?? wow... they should stop making these films NOW