After watching Doug Bradley in Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines I had this immediate need to rewatch Hellraiser....so I did.

The first time I watched Hellraiser I was at an incredibly impressionable age, honestly, I was probably too young to see something of this nature, I couldn't have been any more than 10-years-old. The movie absolutely terrified me but at the same time caused me to have an intense curiosity about the morbid things I was already fascinated with: pain, hell, death, afterlife, etc.

For its time, Hellraiser was above and beyond what most genre-films were exploring. When Clive Barker wrote the novella The Hellbound Heart (a year before the movie was released) it was obvious he was capable of bringing…

Hoop-Tober, Film 10 of 31:

Whoa. This movie is truly insane, and bizarre, and...
Yeah, bizarre.

Seriously really bizarre.
I wasn't expecting Phantasm-level strangeness.

One of the scenes in this film is a definitely contender for the scariest scene of the 1980s, in my opinion:
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It's 4AM. I can't sleep (not sure if it's because of the film).
I can't seem to gather my thoughts,
Or think of anything worthy of including in my review.

I want to watch this again.
But no, I don't. I really don't.

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But awesome.

The acting though, is kinda meh. The writing is kinda meh.
But the creatures. The SFX. The music. The atmosphere.
The main character shift.…

Clive Barker's "Hellraiser" is a gloomy, gory horror film full of violence, mystery, and modern-gothic atmosphere all its own. A monster movie with unique and intelligent monsters, the film is heavy with themes of temptation and self-inflicted suffering. It is an engaging, jolting, and memorably nightmarish piece of work.

Its plot revolving around a mystical puzzle box with the power to open interdimensional doorways, "Hellraiser" follows a family dealing with the effects of what comes out of and goes into those doorways. Human-like creatures wrapped in all manner of depravity who blur the lines between pleasure and pain slip back and forth, harassing those who dare open the box.

"Hellraiser" deals more with the family and its attempts to appease…

I've seen 'Hellrasier' a number of times over the years since it's 1987 release and to completely honest I have never really understood the love it has gained. That was until my latest viewing were something seemed to finally clicked, it was almost like I was watching it for the first time with fresh eyes.

Clive Barker's tale manages to stand out in a decade that was stacked with some absolutely fantastic examples of the genre, in which many are considered as classics. 'Hellraiser' at it's core is a love story, a very twisted love story weaved together with elements of lust, sexual obsession, forbidden desires and wrapped within this strange outlandish S&M party, but a love story nonetheless. There's…

Damn those practical effects are beautiful! 👌 Hellraiser is not only a visually creative gore fest, but it is also a very impressive directorial debut from Clive Barker.

Hellraiser is a movie that literally brings you to hell and back. The movie as about a married couple Larry and Julia, who move into an old house. After Larry has an accident and spills blood, deeply cutting his hand, it awakens a hideous creature, Frank who is strangely connected with them both. He is Larry's half brother and Julia's former lover. Seeing his incomplete and gross looking body, Julia decides to help him be whole again by feeding him bodies. Meanwhile, Pinhead and his demonic Cenobites are left searching for the…

I missed out on most of the more popular horror titles of the 80’s and 90’s. I always saw the VHS tapes sitting in stores and always walked right past them. Hellraiser was one of them. I felt it was time to finally give in and see a film that has been referenced a billion times in popular culture and it turned out the film was actually pretty scary.

I find most horror films don’t have a lot at stake, and are fairly corny and cheesy at times. Films of the 80’s and 90’s try to go all out and go for big, cheap scares and I don’t think it’s nearly as scary as some of the scenes from Hellraiser.…