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He'll tear your soul apart.
An unfaithful wife encounters the zombie of her dead lover while the demonic cenobites are pursuing him after he escaped their sadomasochistic underworld.
Hellraiser
1987 Directed by Clive Barker
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Helraiser, Le Pacte, Hellraiser 1, Hellraiser 1: Los que traen el infierno, Clive Barker's Hellraiser, Clive Barkers Hellraiser, Pekelník, Fogo Maldito, 猛鬼追魂
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Horror, the undead and monster classics Intense violence and sexual transgression horror, creepy, eerie, blood or gothic scary, horror, creepy, supernatural or frighten horror, gory, scary, killing or gruesome horror, creepy, frighten, eerie or chilling zombies, undead, horror, gory or flesh Show All…
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The cenobites, ranked:
1: Fat Cenobite- the GOAT. This guy looks great and he knows it. He’s got torture sunglasses and that’s frankly cool as hell.
2: Pinhead- The main guy. Gotta give it up. He’d be first place but my man Fat Cenobite came to win.
3: The Female- Not great and I'm not crazy about her neck but at least she has eyes.
4: The VCR mouth guy- where are your eyes? You’re trash. -
shocked this movie doesn’t seem to have a lot more cultural permeance past Pinhead being considered a genre icon. literally did not know anything else about this movie going into it– took a while to feel like i was locked into its groove, but when i was i thought it was fantastic. love the big cenobite with sunglasses that looks like several Dragon Ball Z characters came to life. big ups to whoever cheated on clive barker the same week he saw Possession for blessing us with this banger
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I dunno I feel like these Cenobites might be a good hang if you get a couple beers in with them
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Some cool stuff here and there but Kirsty? Is that the best name they could come up with?
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Pain, pleasure, and repulsive glamour.
I first watched (half watched) Hellraiser through covered eyes and pulled up blankets in a hotel room on a trip to Disney with my parents. They were watching it on the HBO while I pretended to be asleep—I must have been around 7 years old and I was absolutely horrified by what my what I was sneak watching...in no way ready for that or the hopeless nightmares that would follow.
Fast forward a few years and I was knee deep in late night vhs viewing sessions with my cool older cousin, Richard, who was the spark plug in showing me horror that was more intense than what I was accustomed to at that age. He’s ten years…
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Take note of the religious iconography, which Clive Barker even has spilling into the frame during a suspense sequence. Pain and pleasure are intertwined, but the perversion is fueled against god, who can only weep when there is no return, no penetrative act worth saving. A flower blooms, a new world opens, and the lord is still. Probably top-5 all time in the history of horror practical effects.
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“pain and pleasure, indivisible.”
WE HAVE SUCH SIGHTS TO SHOW YOU. one of those rare movies where your eyes can hardly believe what they're seeing even on rewatches. genuinely gets under my skin. what is even the genre here? cosmic sadomasochistic body horror? maybe an erotic fulci movie? idk but leave religion at the door, we only worship the flesh here.
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