Out of the theatrical releases, HR3 was the weakest of the bunch. With Clive Barker no longer a part of the series, merely his name on it, things degraded quickly into making a marketable, easy-to-digest movie for the masses. The juxtaposition between the first two movies, this, and the fourth one (which was not as good as the first two, much better than the third, and eminently better than any of the straight-to-video releases) is somewhat jarring. Pinhead before was just a servant of the wants of a god that wanted more souls in its grasp to torture, and in 3 became the typical "want to take over the world" villan. The whole "good vs evil" (or human vs demon) of the Pinhead story was interesting as a side bit in 2, but it becoming a main plot point in 3 was just lazy writing combined with a cliche. The script itself was bad, so was the direction, and the acting was very poor, except from Doug Bradley, who, like Jim stated, never stopped being Pinhead, just being different kinds of Pinhead. 4 was a good return to form, though less so just because it wasn't about tempting people and fighting the Cenobites, just fighting the Cenobites. Still, Hellraiser, as a (talking about the theatrical releases, not the straight-to-videos, those are mixed bunch) series is miles better than most other horror series, pretty much, again, for what Jim stated. If you haven't, at the very least, check out Hellraiser 1,2 and 4. If you so desire, check out the whole series, theatrical and straight-to-video, though just know that only one of those was decent (7 has Kari Wuhrer as the main protagonist, and 8 has Lance Henrikson as the main villan, so let that be a guide on how "good" those movies are).