The first Hellraiser sequel offers a shockingly durable blueprint for making a quality horror follow-up.
Horror sequels are often dismissed as poorly constructed cash grabs, and some of the sequels Clive Barker's legendary directorial debut Hellraiser certainly don’t help that dismal reputation. Too many of these follow-ups are cheaply made wastes of time that forget any of the creative bloodshed or eroticism that defined that inaugural installment. Something like Hellraiser: Revelations didn’t just strike a nadir for the Hellraiser series, but for 2010s horror in general.
These aren’t the only noticeable recurring flaws in horror sequels, but they are especially prominent ones that speak to the kind of creative deficiency that so many of these follow-ups are working with. Great horror tends to come from either restraint or wildly unpredictable maximalism . It’s hard to properly execute either of these elements when you’re interested in just providing an encore of what people experienced before.
These elements involving Julia are smartly building upon aspects established in the first Hellraiser -- namely what previously dead human beings look like once they return to the land of the living -- to create something excitingly new. This trend continues once Kirsty, Julia, Channard, and new character Tiffany all head to the land inhabited by dreadful Cenobites like Pinhead .
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