1987 Directed by Clive Barker
Larry and his wife, Julia move into an old house and discover a hideous creature - the man's half-brother, who is also the woman's former lover - hiding upstairs. Having lost his earthly body to a trio of S&M demons, the Cenobites, Frank, is brought back into existence by a drop of blood on the floor. He soon forces his former mistress to bring him his necessary human sacrifices to complete his body... but the Cenobites won't be happy about this.
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…
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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…
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A sexual frustrated woman becomes a serial killer, by luring unsuspecting men to her undead lover in order for him to regain his life force that was ripped away from him by the deadly Cenobites.
"The box, you opened it, we came ... It's just a puzzle box! ... Oh, no, it is a means to summon us."
Watching Writer and Director Clive Barker's Hellraiser has been a long time coming for me. I remember looking at the VHS cover in Blockbuster as a kid, and being so scared but intrigued by it. And what I have come to find with so many of these old school horror movies, is they do weave in enough humor…
Oddly enough, 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 as I pretended to be asleep and was absolutely horrified by what my what I was sneak watching, I must have been 5 or 6 and was in no way ready for that or the hopeless nightmares that would follow.
Fast forward a few more years and I was knee deep in late night vhs viewing sessions with my cooler older cousin, Richard. I’ve often mentioned my cousin in numerous reviews, as he was defiantly the spark plug in showing me horror films that were a…
A slimy pleasure seeker escapes from Hell and is pursued by Demons who work for Hell.
Jumbled plot could have been expanded and the characters fleshed out more instead of concentration on gore and effects.
The character of Steve is one of the most useless ever.
Still the king of all the Clive Barker adaptations imo. A macabre operatic soap opera mixed with Barker’s dark and disturbing imagination, to create a gothic masterpiece! ⛓
Not sure why I decided to watch this. Semi-glad I did. It was goofy good vibes, kinda wanna watch the rest of this series now
Pretty fucking weird set up and premise for a horror franchise. Fantastic effects that still make your skin crawl. Bafflingly thin ending.
superior mood than most halloween fare, it gets a little bogged down in the middle but is forever essential for its depiction of hell!
I really don't know how to approach this movie. For one, it has such a weird structure (in terms of story). As the director is the author of the book it's based on, I believe it may have worked better in written form.
And for some reason it took me a long time to realize that the main heroine was the main heroine. Goes to show the depth and care put into her character.
Moreover, I hate that it's so blatantly set up for sequels. Some movies leave parts of their worlds unexplored, just to make it seem bigger, more real or mysterious. That wasn't the reason this movie did it.
The effects, however, are a mixed bag. At times they're fantastic (the look of the Cenobites and the villain guy), and at times horrible.
As for the sadomasochism and sexuality stuff, the movie didn't handle it really well.
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