October is upon us and that can only mean one thing: PUMPKIN PIE!!! Awwwww yeah, I cannot get me enough of that delicious fall treat. Seriously, whoever looked at those crazy round orange things and said “That needs to be a pie.” is the most insane and smart person to ever exist. All year I wait and wait for it. Sure, apple pie is great, but dude…pumpkin.

Ummm…yeah…October. Halloween is coming which means it is time to watch scary movies. There are tons of horror franchises out there, but everyone has their favorite. Some people cannot get enough of Jason slashing up campers, for some Freddy dream murdering people is the best. For me, it is the cenobites coming from hell and destroying people dumb enough to release them. The Hellraiser series has always been my favorite because of how deliberate it is. The franchise has just as many sequels as the others, which means just as many chances to make some mistakes. Hellraiser: Bloodline certainly is not the best in the series, but I like it just fine.

Bloodline is set in space. Let’s just get that out of the way. No, they did not rip off Jason X, this movie came out a good five years before that. Really, it is only half set in space. The movie outlines the history of the puzzle box that releases the cenobites (those are the bad guys) so some of it is set in the 1800’s, then some is in the 90’s, and then it is back to space. By the end of the film you get a pretty good grasp of how the puzzle box came to be and what it is capable of. The beauty in this is that you can get by watching this movie without having seen the first three Hellraiser movies.

There are plenty of reasons to not like this movie. The directing is kind of weak (mostly due to the fact that the original director jumped ship after the studio messed with the script so much) and the plot is pretty incoherent at times (again, thanks to the studio). A lot of people hate it because of the space thing, or the old timey thing. Bloodline‘s poor reception made it the last movie in the Hellraiser series to get a theatrical release, at least until there is a reboot (which cannot be too far off).

First off, the fact that this movie in space is not a problem. It is freakin’ awesome. There are lasers and space soldiers and all that great sci-fi stuff, but with Pinhead. Unlike most horror franchises this one being in the future makes perfect sense. The cenobites are immortal and the puzzle box that releases them cannot be destroyed. Sure, someone always finds a way to send the cenobites back to their own dimension, but that does not kill them. Bloodline may be a bit of a mess, but you get to see a ton of different settings, which rules.

The major key to enjoying this movie is the cenobites. Pinhead is back, but he has some new friends. Now there is a new girl cenobite and the twins. The girl cenobite is a pretty integral part of the story, and you get to see her start out as a demon that was summoned to be an evil servant. Eventually she gets turned in to a cenobite and joins Pinhead’s crew on the space ship. The other new cenobite is the siamese twins. I wont spoil it for you, but you get to see them get created and it is truly brutal and awesome.

Every horror franchise has some less than stellar movies. Hellraiser is no exception. However, that does not mean the bad movies hold no entertainment value. At the end of the day I would still rather watch one of the bad Hellraiser movies than anything in the Twilight series. Tune in (ha, radio joke) next week to see why Saw: The Final Chapter might not be as bad as you think.