Hellraiser

Hellraiser
$14.98
Creepy Ghoulish, Disgusting, Gore-ish(I hate gore), Hell, Just a Horrible scary movie. don't care much for it, Obviously it scared me.

Hellbound: Hellraiser 2
$14.98
I watched HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER 2 last night and...it made about as much sense as the first time I saw it.

The opening was interesting and it was nice to see Ashley Laurence back, but the movie carries on with a conventional horror structure without thinking through the Hellraiser landscape.

Kirsty, Ashley's character, charges into the alternate universe to rescue her father. But armed with what? Everyone else is easily massacred but Kirsty is completely impervious to everything. Why? Does she have something special or has she tapped into some power to combat the evil? Not really. She's the lead character so she's never really threatened. And the reason she went charging in is pretty much discarded and never resolved.

There's a brief and disappointing "battle" between the Cenobites and the new Cenobite on the block, but it's over before you have any idea of what just happened. Looked cool.

Also good to see Clare Higgins back...but what exactly was she in this?

In the second half, I just went along for the ride since things happened that didn't make a lot of sense. These movies have a cool concept...but I don't think they've really thought things through. They think of cool images and scenes but they never really applied a lot of logic to them.

Hellraiser III - Hell on Earth
$14.98
I picked this up as an impulse buy since it's now out of print. I like this third installment in the Hellraiser series quite a bit because it explains Pinheads past before he became Pinhead. Armored Saint makes a cameo as a house band who later gets involved in the clubs massacre. The new cenobites are cool also. All in all best Hellraiser in the series.

Hellraiser: Boxed Set
$59.97
The three DVDs have no protection. When produced, the bare DVDs are slid into the center of the puzzle box case slots, plastic on plastic, resulting in scuff marks on the tops and bottoms of the DVDs. If you're expecting mint DVDs, you won't get it with this set.

Also, the plastic puzzle box itself isn't authentic and detailed as some of the smaller plastic replicas you can buy from a Halloween store for around $20. Having said that, I guess $30 is an all right price for a kind-of-cool DVD case and three Hellraiser DVDs.

The Hellraiser Boxed Set... a cool idea, but flawed execution.