Our intrepid heroine Kirsty Cotton
became besties with Pinhead and the Cenobite Crew, who then all went
on to get slaughtered by a guy with a vagina tentacle growing out of
his head. Also a mute girl did stuff... I think, honestly I have
absolutely NO IDEA what happened. Sure looked cool, though.
The second Hellraiser movie came
out in 1988, amidst its distributor New World Pictures having major
financial issues that resulted in a massive slash and burn on the
budget. Fast forward four years later to 1992 and New World Pictures
had completely gone under, and the rights to the franchise now
resided in the hands of famed Dimension Films. They brought back
director Tony Randel and writer Peter Atkins to make a third movie,
but decided Randel wasn't experienced enough so replaced him with
Anthony Hickox. Hickox was famous at the time for directing the
horror series Waxwork, a moderately successful series that was
a borderline parody of the genre.
Atkins was kept on to write the script,
which I'm not sure is a good thing considering how mind bogglingly
absurd his previous one was. However, he did end that movie on a
cliffhanger of sorts so maybe he had a bigger story in mind that'll
tie up all the loose ends from- HAHAH, I couldn't even say that with
a straight face. Buckle up folks, it's time for A Ghoul Versus
Hellraiser III: Hell On Earth!
