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Hellraiser : Bloodline , akaHellraiser 4 , infamously sent Pinhead and the Cenobites to place , and finish up being disinherit by director Kevin Yagher . It feels safe to say that theHellraiserfranchise has been a massive dashing hopes overall . Clive Barker ’s 1987 originalHellraiseris a classic , and 1988 sequelHellbound : Hellraiser 2is in the same league , but after that thing set down off a cliff in quality . Sure , Hellraiser 3 : Hell on Earthhas some fans , and Scott Derrickson’sHellraiser : Infernois astonishingly good for a direct to picture sequel , but neither is even close to beloved by the majority of horror consumers .
release in 1996,Hellraiser : Bloodlineperformed so poorly on both a critical and commercial level that it holds the dubious honor of being the lastHellraiserfilm to date to really play in theaters . AfterBloodline , Pinhead was shunted to the rack land of direct to video , forever doomed to have his films satiate Wal - Mart steal bins and play on premium line at 3 am . While a theatricalHellraiserreboot finally bet to be in the offing , it wo n’t save Pinhead from the two decades of suffering he ’s already brave out .
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Perhaps the most frustrative matter aboutHellraiser : Bloodlineis that many of the construct it presents are full of potential difference for success , turn over as it does into the story of the Lament Configuration and the major power social system among theCenobitesin Hell . If Yagher had gotten to make the movie he intended to , it could ’ve arguably been one of the better entries in the series .
Why Hellraiser 4’s Director Took His Name Off The Film
A top - ledge special effects creator , Kevin Yagher only has three directorial credits , two episodes ofTales from the Crypt- Yagher had design the show ’s iconic Crypt Keeper creature - andHellraiser : Bloodline . Then again , he ’s not in reality credited on the latter , asBloodlineis credit to notorious Hollywood pseudonym Alan Smithee . It ’s a sad twist of events , as Yagher was n’t very gung ho about directing aHellraisersequel , that is until he was impressed by the script write by Peter Atkins , who had also written the second and third films . unluckily , much of that book did n’t make it to the projection screen .
Yagher turned in the initial cut ofHellraiser : Bloodlineto Dimension Films executives in other 1995 , which run 110 minutes . The trouble was , the studio apartment detest it , call for that the celluloid be drastically re - ferment . young scenes were written , but Yagher was bite out after what had been a difficult filming process , and declined to participate . Halloween : The Curse of Michael Myersdirector Joe Chappelle - who at one pointedness was in line to directBloodlineto begin with - was then bring in to shoot these new sequences . The final edit was chopped down to a brisk 85 second , creating a hasten feel to the story , and leaving many elements of the plot of ground and character backstories poorly explained or spay exclusively . Pinhead ’s office was also beefed up at the behest of the studio apartment .
This was precisely what Yagher had feared would take place the moment Dimension ask for rewrite and raw scenes , and he felt that the net cut ofHellraiser : Bloodlinewasn’t the film he had signed on to make , asking for his name to be off . Chappelle had n’t shoot enough new material to justify a reference of his own , so the Smithee name was used . A leaked other workprint ofBloodlinehas made its way around the bootleg lap , but it ’s obviously not an official release , and while it restores some helpless footage , it ’s still drop quite a bit from Yagher ’s original excision .
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