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…
Pinhead more bark than bite but still one badass Cenobite. Kinda creepy. Pretty gory. The last 10 minutes are pure insanity. Not a film you want to watch on strong acid.
"I have seen the future of horror fiction and his name is Clive Barker." ~ Stephen King
Groundbreaking horror cinema that made Pinhead and sadomasochism household names! Clive Barker unleashed the cenobite demons of S&M upon us with a vengeance!
Gruesomely Graphic Gore and Violence that will soothe the savage gore whore in us all! Be sure to watch all the sequels and before you know it YOU'LL be HOOKED TOO! (Literally)
me before watching hellraiser: idk s&m is kinda intense for me i don't think i'd ever be into it
me after: sticks and stones may break my bones but chains and whips excite me!!!!!!!
I loved "The Hellbound Heart" novella and I cannot believe it has taken me this many years to get arojnd to watching it.
The physical effects are hard to beat. When Frank is first forming it is gory and fantastic.
The story moved along at a good pace much like the book and the cenobites are every bit as disgusting as expected.
Genuinely disturbing effects, a neat premise and of course, Pinhead. Some of the stopmotion/animatronics were a bit dated but overall it has aged very well. Can't wait to see more of the stuff in this series.
This movie has never quite seemed to live up to its potential to me, although of course it introduced some powerfully resonant horror imagery. The real plot is a simple vampire-slasher movie about an evil sadist (Sean Chapman, also in the sequel and “For Queen & Country”), Frank, brought back to life when his brother (brilliantly played by Andrew Robinson, from “Dirty Harry” and a regular on “Star Trek: Deep Space 9” as “Garak”) accidentally cuts himself and bleeds on the floor where he was originally pulled into Hell. Really, that story is good enough and it works, but it isn’t the part everyone remembers: the Cenobites (led by the great Doug Bradley, also in “The 4th Reich” and “Lucifer’s Unholy…
Esperaba una slasher precursor del torture porn con gore explícito pero sin mucha chicha y al final me llevé un film muy original en planteamiento lleno de interesante mitología macabra recién llegada de tus pesadillas, un toquecillo culebronesco (la parte pasional) y unos encantadores efectos prácticos ochenteros.
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As voted by the Shock Waves Horror Movie Club, the fan made top 100 horror movies of all time.
