Damn straight, 8 was absolutely fecal. However, I still recommend watching them all... the trash factor is always entertaining the first time 'round.

actually, i thought hellseeker wasn't bad at all. otherwise, i agree.

You're kidding. A remake? Fucking Christ.

Hellraiser 3 is one of my favorite movies, actually.

If we lived in a universe where Hollywood was willing to go dark--I mean pitch black, abyss of Hell kiddie porn photo shoot dark--then I could see a point. Today, Hellraiser is kind of dated. All of the blue lights and fog machines and lasers and that scene where Pinhead breakdances down an alleyway in torn jeans gives it a campy 80's vibe.

Clive supposedly wrote the script for the remake, stating he wanted to update the S&M themes. The directors are two French guys. We may have something here. It does, however, serve as definitive proof that America is out of ideas. We've even gone to foriegners to do our re-makes of foreign horror films now. If British counts as foreign.

Also, 4 counts as the worst because THEY WENT TO SPACE. Whenever a horror franchise goes to space, its had its day in the sun. I think that fourth one effectively killed the franchise for a few years and condemned it to direct-to-video releases.

Um, wasn't the original Hellraiser pretty much a British film? Clive Barker wrote and directed it, and he's British...

well, it was made by an american studio right?(i could be wrong) if so it's still an american movie regardless of where Barker is from.

Also, I didn't mind the space parts of Hellraiser 4. I didn't think it was terrible. Actually, if you've ever seen "event horizon" it's almost exactly like a hellraiser movie in space minus cenobites.

A brilliant and inventive suggestion sir with just two tiny drawbacks.