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:
goo.gl/images/eVBC9N

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.…

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 older than me and I…

"The box. I opened it. They came."

Und wie sie kamen...

Clive Barkers Meilenstein...und ein absoluter Klassiker.
Leider folgten unsäglich schlechte Nachfolger. Man hätte Pinhead und die Zenobiten spätestens nach dem dritten Teil nicht mehr aus dem Würfel lassen sollen...🤷🏼‍♀️

Als ich "Hellraiser" zum ersten mal sah, war ich augenblicklich fasziniert von der Bedrohung, die von Pinhead und den dämonischen Zenobiten ausging.
Ich finde, im Gegensatz zu anderen klassischen Killern wie z.B. Michael Myers, waren sie nicht greifbar und wirkten wegen ihrer Herkunft aus einer anderen Dimension, für mich.... übermächtiger.

Einfach echter Horror mit universellem psychischen Fundament...der wahrlich erneut für eine gepflegte Gänsehaut sorgte!

"Hellraiser 1" ist ja durchaus auch aufgrund seiner sadomasochistischen Elemente bekannt geworden...
Man könnte ja sagen,…

There is a lot that makes this movie not good. The late production decision to make it not set in England which necessitated the overdubbing of lots of the bit players makes for a lot awkwardly jarring moments of dialogue. The acting, though I do like Andrew Robinson, is really awful, particularly Ashley Laurence. Clive Barker had never directed before and admittedly knew nothing about film and, apparently, directing actors. When the monster chases Kirsty down the hall, you can fully see the cart mechanism behind it for a good 3 seconds. All that being said, it's still kinda good! It certainly scores big nostalgia points. Something about the ambitious supernatural cenobites seemed revolutionary for its time, and it's understandable…