10 Overhyped Horror Movies You Wish You'd Not Watched

Written and directed by Clive Barker, and based on his 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart, supernatural horror Hellraiser spawned a decade-spanning franchise that is still limping along today.

The plot is built around the discovery of a mysterious puzzle box that summons the Cenobites, interdimensional beings who can no longer tell the difference between pain and pleasure, led by the horror icon Pinhead (Doug Bradley). And, while on a conceptual level Hellraiser more than deserves its place in the horror canon, that doesn’t make it a good film.

With the way the horror community reveres it, one expects something more on par with the John Carpenter classics, and yet Hellraiser is surprisingly limited. Pinhead is a phenomenal creation and a horror villain for the ages, but that simply isn’t enough to carry a film that is ugly, schlocky and feels cheap in a way that most of the other films typically mentioned in the same breath do not.