The ensuing pandemonium, lacking the bite of the previous two films, just goes through the mythic motions. Also, while Bradley is probably the best performer here, it’s tempting fate to have him utter the line: “I cannot act in your world.”

Gone is the confusion of the earlier films and mercifully gone is the waffling metaphysics of the second film; instead there are surprisingly careful characterisations and good, creepy, squishy horror stuff.

Forget the disastrous Hellbound: Hellraiser II; this is adult horror to die for.

Only entertaining in fits and starts, Hell on Earth is a terrible disappointment.