# Hellraiser the best horror movie ever?  Refute with your pick.

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**Created:** [September 5, 2002, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hellraiser-the-best-horror-movie-ever-refute-with-your-pick/127160 "2002-09-05T17:27:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Keith\_Berry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/22d042/32.png) [@Keith\_Berry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keith_Berry)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2002, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hellraiser-the-best-horror-movie-ever-refute-with-your-pick/127160/61 "2002-09-07T19:43:06Z")

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**Hellraiser** was always pretty mediocre in my book. Lots of fetish imagery, okay plot, not much else.

Some of my faves:

**Carnival Of Souls, Dawn Of The Dead, Nosferatu, Blood And Black Lace, Opera, Cannibal Holocaust**

Some of my non-faves:

**Any current horror movie that again uses the advertising concept of a photographic college of cast members…**

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**Author:** ![DarkWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@DarkWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkWriter)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2002, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hellraiser-the-best-horror-movie-ever-refute-with-your-pick/127160/62 "2002-09-08T05:36:16Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Drastic \*  
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> I seem to be the only person I know who vastly prefers Exorcist III over the first; parts of it creeped me right the hell out when I first saw it. Silent ceiling-crawling old lady, f’r’instance. Plus, George C. Scott has an absolutely wonderful rant about how he now believes, as he’s pinned up against a wall with Legion’s hairy eyeball, that’ll always have a fond place in my heart. \*\*

I don’t prefer _Exorcist III_ over the original; however, I agree that the movie is excellent. The ceiling crawl is very creepy, and the scene where the nurse suddenly has a murderer right behind her never fails to make my heart race.

The difference between the movies for me is that I can watch _III_ on my own; the original I just can’t.

Sheri

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**Author:** ![Aixelsyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@Aixelsyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aixelsyd)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2002, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hellraiser-the-best-horror-movie-ever-refute-with-your-pick/127160/63 "2002-09-08T19:33:12Z")

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Someone mentioned earlier and I’ll give a big second to Prince of Darkness. very creepy. A recent one I haven’t noticed mentioned is Resident Evil. I never played the video game, so I went into the movie with very low expectations and found it pretty scary and entertaining. I would put John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars in a similar category. Neither would make my top five list, but I found them worth watching. Oh, and in the sci-fi/horror class, Pitch Black is a great movie! Maybe not the scariest movie, but stylish, suspenseful, and smart.

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