8 Ridiculous Behind-The-Scenes Struggles Over Movie Rights

4. The Hellraiser Sequel That Wasn't Even From The Creator's "Butt-Hole"

Dimension Films began releasing sequels in the popular Hellraiser franchise starting with 1992's Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth. However, Hellraiser creator Clive Barker ceased to be involved with the films after the next sequel, 1996's Hellraiser: Bloodline, which was also the last of the series to be released to theaters.

Four more direct-to-DVD sequels followed: Hellraiser: Inferno (2000), Hellraiser: Hellseeker (2002), Hellraiser: Deader (2005), and Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005), most of which originated as non-Hellraiser horror scripts that were bought by Dimension to save time on writing original screenplays. However, because Dimension stopped making sequels the company's rights were in danger of expiring.

To prevent this, in late 2010 Dimension rushed a ninth Hellraiser film into production titled Hellraiser: Revelations. The film was shot in three weeks on a $300,000 budget with a small cast and crew, released in a single theater in California on March 18, 2011, and then released on DVD in October 18, 2011 to overwhelmingly negative reviews. Douglas Bradley, who portrayed the series' signature character Pinhead since the original film, declined to participate because of the poor script and low budget. Barker objected to promotional materials using the phrase "from the mind of Clive Barker" when he had nothing to do with the project. On his Twitter he remarked that it was not only not from his mind, but it was not even from his "butt-hole." Dimension and Barker must have patched things up because Barker announced in October 2013 that he would write and direct a reboot starring Bradley as Pinhead. If nothing else, it has to be better than the low-budget butt-ugliness of Hellraiser: Revelations.