Hellraiser (1987)
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luka
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"Does your dad like Question of Sport"?
craner
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My mate Gav, when I first played him jungle his route into it was from the film samples, all of which he recognized. When he was a kid, his Dad opened up a video shop opposite Brecon Cathedral, much to the irritation of the Bishop. Like all children of video shop owners in the UK in the 80s and early 90s, this meant that he had seen every single gory horror and action film by the age of 10. Films like Nightbreed, Hellraiser, The Howling, Evil Dead, etc., I only ever heard about them because of him because he used to talk about them incessantly in school. I hate all these movies.
Leo
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pinhead trivia: coil did the original soundtrack to the first one but was scraped and replaced before the final cut. I've always liked how it's more low-key -- and thus, more unsettling -- compared to the typical commercial horror movie OST.
Printed on sleeve: "The only group I've heard on disc, whose records I've taken off because they made my bowels churn." - Clive Barker, Director of Hellraiser.
Printed on sleeve: "The only group I've heard on disc, whose records I've taken off because they made my bowels churn." - Clive Barker, Director of Hellraiser.
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droid
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i tried to read The Scarlet Gospels a few years back. Cant really overstate how appallingly bad it was.
Corpsey
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Often the humans/victims in these movies are written with the about the same level of nuance as you find in pornos. You want them to die.
The shot that haunts me from Hellraiser is where the bad guy gets Cenobit and he's being stretched into a thousand pieces by hooks and he licks his lips and grins (before he explodes).
I saw Hellraiser in a double bill with the Exorcist at the BFI. Was stoned to an uncomfortable level. I thought Hellraiser had held up better.
sadmanbarty
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Bastard
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I thought it seemed silly. And not silly in the self conscious way Hellraiser is. It's terribly portentous.
No doubt at the time it came out when religious belief was more widespread it earned its fainting patrons.
People (in the cinema) were laughing at it.
Maybe it's death by parody?
No doubt at the time it came out when religious belief was more widespread it earned its fainting patrons.
People (in the cinema) were laughing at it.
Maybe it's death by parody?
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