
Hellraiser (1987)
1987 · MovieFrank Cotton solves an ancient puzzle box and gets more than he bargained for. When his brother's family moves into his old house, a single drop of blood gives Frank a way back.
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Frank Cotton solves an ancient puzzle box and gets more than he bargained for. When his brother's family moves into his old house, a single drop of blood gives Frank a way back.

Riley McKendrick comes across the Lament Configuration and activates a sequence of trades that the Cenobites require working through.

Pinhead ends up trapped inside a sculpture at a nightclub. A journalist and a reckless club owner make decisions that let him out.

The puzzle box mythology stretches across three centuries, following the family whose ancestor built the Lament Configuration.

A journalist investigating a cult that claims to resurrect the dead finds a puzzle box at the center of the story.

A man survives a car accident that kills his wife and can't get a clear picture of what actually happened in the days around the crash.

Five fans of an online Hellraiser game receive invitations to a private party at a remote estate. The invitation is a trap.

A corrupt detective stumbles onto the puzzle box during a murder investigation and finds the case organizing itself around his own history of bad decisions.

Detective brothers Sean and David Carter investigate a serial killer called the Preceptor whose murders follow the Ten Commandments. The trail leads them somewhere far worse than a killer's hideout.

Hellraiser returns in a production that fulfills a contractual obligation and introduces a new face to the mythology.

Annie's mother has just died, and the grief in the Graham household turns out to be the least of what's coming for this family. Something has been arranged for them long before anyone realized it.

Hugh and Felix are visitors to a small Utah bed and breakfast when Mr. Reed produces evidence he claims proves God exists and refuses to let them leave without engaging with it.

A protagonist's fixation on someone draws the attention of a presence that feeds on that particular kind of obsession.

Three backpackers follow a tip to a hostel in Slovakia and find that the facility has a very different business operating in its lower levels.

The hostel's business model expands. This time the clientele and the merchandise are both different.

The third Hostel entry moves the setting to Las Vegas and the torture tourism business adapts to its new environment.

Sarah moves in next door to a house where something happened that the community has not fully processed.

Two couples following a documentary about American roadside oddities stop at a rural Texas attraction and end up as guests of a family that doesn't let people leave.

Hap drives Mina home to her remote gothic estate after meeting at a bar. She's charming, the house is beautiful, and his luck is about to run out.

A millionaire offers a group of strangers a million dollars each to survive one night in a former psychiatric institution. The building has its own agenda.
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