Hellraiser
The controversial story begins about a man and wife moving into an old house but discovering something strange that seems to be a terrible creature. This hideous creature is the half-brother of the man, who is also the lover of the former woman who is hiding on the top floor. This strange creature lost its earthly body to three demons of S & M, Cenobites, but was brought back to life by a drop of blood. The ugly creature begins to force his former mistress to sacrifice his human sacrifices to complete his body in a hideous and terrifying way.
10 November 1955, Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
7 September 1954, Liverpool, England, UK
14 February 1942, New York City, New York, USA
28 May 1966, Los Angeles, California, USA
11 October 1940, Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
22 May 1981, Bronx, New York, USA
24 March 1930, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA
6 September 1960, London, England, UK
2 June 1961, Greenwich, London, England, UK
3 October 1948, Dublin, Ireland
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...
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.
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.
February 12, 2010
Clive Barker's virtuosic De Sadean satire
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.
January 11, 2008
Minor grisly fun, but don't expect the movie to linger when it's over.
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.
February 01, 2011
Gore-torture-horror-ghoul fantasy from the '80s.
November 25, 2007
...an entertaining and downright creepy piece of work...
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.
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.
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.
