Seems like an awesome short film/short story with a golden child tacked on, but the ending saves it.

A nice little über-gory horror movie.

Amazing prosthetic effects and an effective score do not save it from being a captial B-movie.

Try as a you might, it is not possible to entirely hate a film that ends with a man suspended by meat hooks sinked into his flesh, high on some desperately bizarre s/m ecstasy, who, as his final words on this earth, before being dragged back to hell and torn apart - muscle by muscle - exclaims: "Jesus wept". Also, the Xenobites are pretty cool.

I think the ending prevents Hellraiser from being a classic. I found it silly that Kirsty was running around capturing the Cenobites with the puzzle box.

Unlike most horror flicks form the eighties, well most of them are slashers and most of them aren't all that scary, but this one... this one is all about the gore in quite sure this is the goriest movie of it's time. You watch slashers to have fun and you watch this if you want to be grossed out.

this movie has the weirdest pacing of a horror movie...I liked it, but in the end the movie needed better direction

You spend the entire movie waiting for Pinhead to show up and when he finally does barely figures. Also needed to better utilise Andrew Robinson's creep factor. Only character designs, nothing else.

Bizarre adaptation of Clive Barker's books. It's standard horror stuff but it manages to be somewhat creepy and surreal. Pinhead is one of the more original characters to grace the horror genre. The "hell" as envisioned is also metaphysical and interesting.

great performance from clare higgins, lots of cool visuals and memorable concepts... it's not that scary, and has a bit too much gore for my tastes, but it's a damn cool movie.

Surreal and scary, it's fun to be scared by a movie as involved as this.