A whole week of Halloween episodes of Reel '96 kicks off today as we summon the otherworldly knowledge of director and makeup fx artist Mike Lombardo (I'm Dreaming of a White Doomsday) to help us become cenobite aficionados  as we exhume the body of Hellraiser IV: Bloodline. It's a film with a troubled production history close to the heights of Alien3 (but not quite) and has an ambitious centuries-spanning narrative from Revolutionary France to present day (1996 y'all) to futuristic deep space. Does it live on as the last good Hellraiser movie? Let's find out!

Movies mentioned: Hellraiser, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, Hellraiser V: Inferno, Bordello of Blood, The Thing, Midnight Meat Train, Books of Blood, Lord of Illusions, Nightbreed, Rawhead Rex, Dread, Hellraiser: Revelations, Hellraiser: Hellworld, The Stepfather, Wishmaster, Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh, Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings, Tremors 2: Aftershocks, and so much more!