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Hellraiser

Eleven films, three of which were not written as Hellraiser films at all.

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Where to start with Hellraiser

Release order is actively misleading here, because several of the later films are unrelated scripts with Pinhead dropped into them. There is a real story running through this franchise and it is only five films long.

  1. 1
    Hellraiser (1987) Hellraiser

    Clive Barker adapting his own novella and directing it himself, and it is nothing like the sequels. Nothing before it, and it is the only one he made.

  2. 2
    Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988) Hellbound: Hellraiser II

    Continues the same night and goes into Hell itself, which is what the first film only implies. It is generally held to be the last good one.

  3. 3
    Hellraiser: Hellseeker (2002) Hellraiser: Hellseeker

    It is a straight-to-video sequel from a script that was not originally about any of this, and yet it is the film that actually finishes the story the first two started.

Then what? Fill in the third and fourth films between the second and Hellseeker, and that is the whole story. Inferno, Deader and Hellworld are standalone and can go in any order or none. Revelations and Judgment exist because of contracts rather than because anyone had a story. The 2022 film is a separate adaptation of the same novella and should be watched on its own terms.

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