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Summary: Clive Barker's Masterpiece!!
Review: If you LOVE BLOOD, GORE and ABSOLUTE HORROR then this is the movie for you! Clive Barker's Hellraiser is a cult horror classic and made Pinhead just as well-known as Freddy, Jason and Michael Myers. Claire Higgins and Ashley Lawrence star in this mysterious tale of a puzzle box that opens the gates of hell and unleashes a gang of demons called the Cenobites. The Cenobites are led by Pinhead (Doug Bradley) and give their victims the most excruciating but oh so pleasurable pain in their quest for flesh and blood. Once this box has been opened it will be absolute hell trying to close it. I've seen many horror movies and this is one of my favorites. Hellraiser is a combination of intelligence, creativity and GORE!! A perfect fit for all horror fans. Let this movie pleasure and scare you as it has done to millions of horror fans. I'd also like to say Pinhead is the coolest looking demon I've ever seen.
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Summary: You will never look at hooks the same way....
Review: This is one of the more fiendishly original ideas ever put on screen. A simple gold puzzle-box, correctly solved, opens up the "pleasures of heaven or hell" to those who seek the ultimate in experience. Of course, we never see the pleasures of heaven -- this is a horror movie, not a porno flick -- but the pleasures of hell are delivered by four latex-and-leather nightmares called Cenobites: highly stylized humanoid demons who inflict the most awful tortures imaginable on those who summon them. In this case, however, one of their former victims, the debauched, thrill-seeking Frank Cotton (creepy Sean Chapman) manages to escape from hell when some of his brother Larry(veteran actor Andrew Robinson)'s blood accidently re-animates what is left of his corpse (which is not much). Frank recruits Larry's deceiving wife Julia (a very, very creepy Claire Higgins) to seduce and murder some hapless businessmen so he can feed on their blood to restore himself, but eventually he will need a suit of skin to walk around in -- and his brother's is a perfect fit. Opposing them is the fiesty Kirsty (Ashley Lawrence, typical horror-movie actress -- shreiking and running), Larry's devoted daughter, who ends up making a devil's bargain with the Cenobites in an attempt to save her father's life. "Hellraiser" is a gritty, nasty, ugly film, with more gore and blood-splattering than you can shake a mop at and very few redeeming characters, and it is more gory and disturbing (the Cenobites calm, clinical thirst for torture is somehow much worse than the chainsaw-waving of Leatherface or the the silent-stalkings of Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees) than it is scary, but the concept is so original, and so jarring to see, that you will never be completely free of it. Unfortunately, Cliver Barker's subsequent directorial outings, like "Nightbreed" and "Lord of Illusions" were so bad that this film, which he says is his least favorite outing, comes off as more of a fluke than the beginning of something grand. But "Hellraiser" stands fine on its own.
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Summary: They don't make them like they used to.
Review: Hellraiser has somthing that a lot of today's horror films does not have. Originality.
You can tell that Clive Barker knows what he's doing and has full intentions of doing it right and succeeds. Hellraiser should satisfy those who are looking for a good shock or two, even though Hellraiser 2 was far more gizzly and violent than this was.
The acting by Andrew Robinson Clare Hinggs, and Ashley Laurence was very good and convincing. Buy this.
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Summary: A horrifying work of Horror and Art.
Review: In 1987, Clive Barker gave audiences this Horror Fantasy Drama
about a ancient Puzzlebox that is a gateway to another dimension
and suddenly it unleases Demons including the infamous Pinhead.
Intriging and Gory fairy tale not for the Squeamish but for those
who have taste for Blood and Macabre.Clive Barker makes " Tim Burton" look like " H.R. Giger".
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Summary: "We'll Tear Your Soul Apart..."
Review: Larry Cotton and his lovely wife Julie have just moved into an old family home, preparing to start their lives anew. A strange feeling draws Julie to the attic and she is overcome with the memories of her true love, Larry's brother, Frank. Suddenly Larry bursts into the attic, blood gushing from a large wound to his hand. Softly falling, drip . . . drip . . . drip, his blood seeps deeply into the cracks of the attic floor, feeding the unnamable which lurks in the darkness. Later, as Julie is drawn back to this unholy place, she encounters a terror beyond her wildest dreams. But wait . . . it is her beloved ex-lover Frank (who isn't quite himself), begging for her help. He explains that by solving the "Lament Configuration," he had summoned spirits from the Outer Realms of Darkness. In his ardent desire for pleasure, he had also been met with pain as the Cenobites unleashed Hell's fury upon him. Barely discernible as human, Frank now needs blood to regain his old form. He convinces Julie to seduce men and bring them home so he may feed upon them. The real terror begins when Larry's daughter Kirsty discovers what is hiding in the attic and steals away with the seemingly innocuous puzzle box capable of opening the portals of Hell. Ignorant of what awaits her, she inadvertently summons the Cenobites who then come for her soul. Desperate to save herself, she tells the Cenobites she knows of one who has escaped them and proceeds to bargain for her soul in exchange for Frank's. But in Hell, as in life, things are never that easy and promises were meant to be broken. The ending sequence offers many twists and turns as it wends its way to its hellish conclusion.
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Summary: Another sucessfull movie from the 80s
Review: I don't know what it is about horror movies but you will always find that the best ones were made in the 80s. Horror movies nowadays are not as scary or as exciting as those created in the wonderful days of the 1980s, to put bluntly recent horror films "stink" because there is no originality in them in addition to this tyhey have become so predictable.
Hellraiser 1 is an original piece of art, might you say. The creation of the character Pinhead has become a well known horror icon that has easily secured a place in movie history, this films shows true originality with its dark and gruesome story and I can honestly say that I still find it very exciting and that it scares my girlfriend. So all I can say to Clive Barker is Nice-one.....
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Summary: "Angels to some, Demons to others..."
Review: Based on Clive Barker's short novel "The Hellbound Heart", Hellraiser is Barker's best. This is the first installment of a franchise that has seen its ups and downs. Barker's terrifying demonic creatures, the Cenobites, are described as "explorers in the higher reaches of experience". They exist in a shadowy world where pain and pleasure are obscured and serve those who call them through a mystical puzzle box, whose possession is the ultimate prize by those who know the secrets it contains. The story revolves around a newly wed couple who get more than they bargained for when they move into the old family house. It seems that brother Frank had been using the house as a hideaway to perform his occult experiments into the hidden powers of the box, only too late discovering the ultimate price of experience. A few accidental drops of blood on the floor of the attic are enough to resurrect the disembodied Frank, who will now stop at nothing to possess the box, and escape the cluthes of his inhuman tormentors. Hellraiser combines a genuinely creepy atmosphere with Barker's trademark sado-masochistic imagery of the Cenobites, whose leader, Pinhead, would go on to fame and cultish devotion by fans of the series. The Cenobites are truly frightening and loom large among some of the greatest movie monsters of all time. You will never look at hooks and chains the same way again.
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Summary: Best Horror Movie Ever
Review: If you love horror movies you have got to see this. Pinhead is great. There is so much gore. I have to stop typing because I am going to see it again. Rated R? There is not a drop of blood, no killings, no sex stuff, no nudity, and there was not one bad word.
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Summary: Pure Hell
Review: This film, along with the others(Part 3 is the only one I can stand), are cold, lifeless pieces of tripe. There is no entertainment value in any frame of this film. Not one single enjoyable moment. Pinhead is an interesting creation, but there is not enough of him to be seen in any of the movies to make him scary or to have a lasting impact. This movie is pure slime.
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Summary: Monster Gore Fest
Review: If your into wierd monsters, and plenty of violence, and gore, this film is sure to fit your profile. When I first saw Hellraiser, I was scared out of my wits, and afraid to go in my own attic after the skinned corpse Frank kills people.This film does not have much of a plot,but The ending part will shock you and keep you shivering.
WARNING: NOT FOR THE SQUEMISH! Bried nudity,sexuial solutions,extreme lanuage, and graphic images.
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