History YMMV / Hellraiser

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: When Kristy first opens the puzzle box, you would expect the Cenobites to appear. And they do...after a scene where a door to a hallway opens, Kristy enters it, and is promptly chased back down it by a horrifying monster.[[note]]Credited as "the Engineer"[[/note]] When she gets back to the hospital room, the hallway disappears, ''then'' the Cenobites appear, with the previous chase sequence not being spoken of again and the monster itself only showing up in the climax to provide the movie with one last scare, which ''also'' comes off like a Big Lipped Alligator Moment.

** [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon Frank Cotton]] is a cruel [[TheHedonist hedonist]], who was taken by the Cenobites in his search for ultimate pleasure. After escaping, he manipulates Julia Cotton in to helping him murder several innocent people in order to complete his return to normal world. After murdering his brother and disguising himself in his skin, he tries to [[EvilUncle rape his own niece]] Kristy. When he killed Julia by accident, he just tossed her aside to continue his hunt for Kristy. When he's taken by the Cenobites again, Frank languishes in a private hell and sends Kirsty letters begging for help, pretending to be her father so she'll come to save him, solely so [[VillainousIncest he can keep her]] as a SexSlave.
** [[CardCarryingVillain Julia Cotton]] is Kirsty's WickedStepmother who helped Frank accomplish his murders and was trying to help him rape her own adopted daughter Kristy. After she is revived, she gleefully drains people at a mental hospital of their life while relishing in their pain and suffering to restore herself. She [[UngratefulBastard feeds her rescuer]] Dr. Channard to her master to turn him into a Cenobite and tries to kill her stepdaughter and an innocent, mentally handicapped girl. When she encounters Frank again, she murders him by ripping his heart out.

* EvilIsSexy: You wouldn't think so about Pinhead, would you? But the mounds of fan mail Doug Bradley gets from adoring women say otherwise.

* EvilIsSexy:
** Frank was in life a hedonist who after his encounter with the Cenobites seems to have no problems bloodily killing people to recontruct his body, but he was also one hot dude (at least while he was alive), to the point that Julia's motivation for choosing him over his good brother Larry seems to relate to this.
** Julia is also this for some fans, who wouldn't mind trading places with the men she lured to her house, even if it was a trap so that Frank could brutally kill them to regenerate his body.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The film has not one but ''two'' awesome scores -- the CreepyAwesome rejected score by Music/{{Coil}} and the terrorizing, brooding orchestral music score by Christopher Young that appears in the completed film.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The film has not one but ''two'' awesome scores - the CreepyAwesome rejected score by Music/{{Coil}} and the terrorizing, brooding orchestral music score by Christopher Young that appears in the completed film.

* DracoInLeatherPants: Creator/DougBradley famously quipped about how much fan mail he gets from women and how they love Pinhead, even though he hasn't done a good, benevolent thing over the course of the entire film franchise.[[note]] Though telling Kirsty to avert her eyes so she doesn't watch Frank's gruesome death at the hands of the Cenobites in the first movie, along with preventing Frank from stabbing her in retaliation for setting him up, then sparing Tiffany after she is manipulated into opening the box in the second movie, and his HeroicSacrifice for Kirsty and Tiffany at the end ought to count. And of course, while not good in a heroic sense, punishing evildoers like Frank, J.P. Monroe, Joseph, Trevor, Winter, and The Host is hard to describe as anything but just.[[/note]]

* DracoInLeatherPants: Creator/DougBradley famously quipped about how much fan mail he gets from women and how they love Pinhead, even though he hasn't done a good, benevolent thing over the course of the entire film franchise.[[note]] Though telling Kirsty to avert her eyes so she doesn't watch Frank's gruesome death at the hands of the Cenobites in the first movie, along with preventing Frank from stabbing her in retaliation for setting him up, then sparing Tiffany after she is manipulated into opening the box in the second movie, and his HeroicSacrifice for Kirsty and Tiffany at the end ought to count. And of course, while not good in a heroic sense, punishing evildoers like Frank, Joseph, Trevor, Winter, and The Host is hard to describe as anything but just.[[/note]]

* DracoInLeatherPants: Creator/DougBradley famously quipped about how much fan mail he gets from women and how they love Pinhead, even though he hasn't done a good, benevolent thing over the course of the entire film franchise.[[note]] Though telling Kirsty to avert her eyes so she doesn't watch Frank's gruesome death at the hands of the Cenobites in the first movie, along with preventing Frank from stabbing her in retaliation for setting him up, then sparing Tiffany after she is manipulated into opening the box in the second movie, and his HeroicSacrifice for Kirsty and Tiffany at the end ought to count. And of course, while not good in a heroic sense, punishing evildoers like Frank, Winter, and The Host is hard to describe as anything but just.[[/note]]

* DracoInLeatherPants: Creator/DougBradley famously quipped about how much fan mail he gets from women and how they love Pinhead, even though he hasn't done a good, benevolent thing over the course of the entire film franchise.[[note]] Though telling Kirsty to avert her eyes so she doesn't watch Frank's gruesome death at the hands of the Cenobites in the first movie, along with sparing Tiffany after she is manipulated into opening the box in the second movie, and his HeroicSacrifice for Kirsty and Tiffany ought to count. And of course, while not good in a heroic sense, punishing evildoers like Frank, Winter, and The Host is hard to describe as anything but just.[[/note]]