Hellraiser: Bloodline
Five Great Movies Directed by Make-Up Artists
Make-up artists and special effect teams are crucial to the horror world. They’re the people that really make the nightmares come true. They’re the people that make the monster...
How Hellraiser: Bloodline Went From An Ambitious Franchise Saver To The Pin In The Coffin
The Hellraiser franchise has always been rocky. The first two movies are absolutely spectacular. Hellraiser III is a bit underrated, but not without its problems by any stretch. And then you have Hell...
Five Bad Sequels That Were Almost Good
Many horror sequels don’t live up to the original. Many more are simply bad. But nobody sets out to make a bad sequel. Things just get in the way, whether it be time budget or any other consider...
Fear and Loathing: The Weird Evolution of Horror Icons in the 90s
The 1990s were an interesting time for horror. For a while, there was a need to make everything new. To make things fresh and different. This need eventually went away, but not before leaving a lastin...
The Final Frontier: Why Franchises Inevitably End Up in Space
Space is a confusing location for a horror feature. It’s somewhere that every franchise winds up eventually, and yet it’s somewhere that nobody really wants to go. So why does it keep ha...
Gluttons for Punishment: Exploring the Death of the Hellraiser Franchise
Hellraiser was a great horror movie that arrived at exactly the right time. It was made at a point in the 1980’s when things were getting stale. The slasher genre had played itself out. Th...