10 "Final" Entries In Movie Franchises (That Totally Weren't)

The original story Clive Barker wrote, The Hellbound Heart, was exhausted by the end of the second film. The series continued for many entries after that, playing variations on the S&M-meets-Biblical-demons iconography that Barker created in the original.

So it should have been no surprise when the series creators decided to end it with an entry called Revelations, a reference to the final book of the Bible that brings all of existence on Earth to an end.

The movie certainly felt like a coffin nail. It was hurried, sloppy, and didn't even bring back Doug Bradley, the man who played the iconic Pinhead in every entry until that point. If you didn't believe the end was nigh because of the title of the film, you could believe it because of the sad state of the series.

You'd be wrong. Seven years after Revelations, the studio needed a quickie entry to hold onto the rights, and along came Hellraiser: Judgment. There is little hope that Hellraiser will return to its original greatness, but it's almost certain that there will be more Hellraiser movies.