Hellraiser
There was something strange that appeared in the new house where the couple moved. The couple discovered that this amazing thing is a formidable creature of demons, the half-brother of the man, who is also the former lover of the woman. This creature hides on the top floor after it has lost its ground body and turned into three demons of S & M, Cenobites. He seems to have come back to life by a drop of blood on the ground. The life of the couple begins to collapse when the ugly creature tries to force his former mistress to sacrifice his human sacrifices to complete his body in a savage way.
24 March 1930, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA
7 September 1954, Liverpool, England, UK
22 May 1981, Bronx, New York, USA
2 June 1961, Greenwich, London, England, UK
10 November 1955, Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
3 October 1948, Dublin, Ireland
28 May 1966, Los Angeles, California, USA
11 October 1940, Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
14 February 1942, New York City, New York, USA
6 September 1960, London, England, UK
February 12, 2010
Clive Barker's virtuosic De Sadean satire
April 20, 2009
Barker's vision cribs equally from the mythos of vampires and zombies, but Hellraiser's overriding ridiculousness (and nagging budgetary shortcomings) can't disguise the fact that the movie is at least unwittingly a product of the AIDS crisis.
November 25, 2007
...an entertaining and downright creepy piece of work...
February 01, 2011
Gore-torture-horror-ghoul fantasy from the '80s.
January 01, 2000
It's a dark, frequently disturbing and occasionally terrifying film that suggests Barker's vision hasn't quite made the conversion from paper to celluloid.
August 07, 2011
For all that it is an incredible, and incredibly disturbing, film to look at, Hellraiser doesn't entirely click as a narrative.
April 09, 2017
"This isn’t for your eyes”", says the demonic Cenobite –- but he is so very wrong about Clive Barker'’s must-see horror.
February 09, 2006
[Writer/Director Clive] Barker's dazzling debut as a director creates such an atmosphere of dread that the astonishing visual set pieces simply detonate in a chain reaction of cumulative intensity.
August 15, 2010
Sharp grim direction and tight writing from Clive Barker who turns his story of a puzzle box invoking the forces of hell in to an experience rather than doing the work for us...
January 01, 2000
This is a movie without wit, style or reason, and the true horror is that actors were made to portray, and technicians to realize, its bankruptcy of imagination.
April 06, 2017
Not only did it revolutionise horror and force mainstream critics to accept that it could ... have real artistic weight, it captured a moment in time when social and sexual mores were shifting in a fascinating way.
January 11, 2008
Minor grisly fun, but don't expect the movie to linger when it's over.
