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Originally Posted by Tommy Jarvis
Well, the way I understood it up until now is some form of lameness/failure. In this case, a foreshadowing line so on the nose and obvious that it becomes lame. Example: Terminator 3. A few minutes in, Clare Danes' character has the line "I hate machines". Womp womp. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrln8zrAlVI
In the case of Hellraiser III, the main character/reporter being frustrated about a boring job and then hearing something like "the story of your life may be closer than you think".
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OK, I got ya. So you were saying the first ten minutes of Hellraiser3 had a few moments of lame lines that drew attention to themselves, "becoming self aware", pretty much breaking the forth wall (taking you out of the story universe), and the rest was silly and goofy? That's sounds pretty bad for a horror film.
Yeah, the original Hellraiser was pretty straight horror and didn't break the forth wall. It had some satire of course, but not self-aware parody. Not too uncommon for sequels. I think of Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 which jumped the ship and went to a weird dark humor parody of itself.