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Genres:
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Horror
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Release:
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Director:
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Clive Barker
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Actors:
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Ashley Laurence,
Oliver Smith,
Anthony Allen,
Robert Hines,
Leon Davis,
Michael Cassidy,
Gay Baynes,
Dave Atkins,
Andrew Robinson,
Clare Higgins,
Sean Chapman,
Frank Baker,
Kenneth Nelson,
Niall Buggy,
Oliver Parker
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Duration:
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94 min.
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Rating:
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(7/10)118.5
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Plot Summary:
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A man finds he is conceded more than he bargains as regards when he solves the mystify of the Grieve for Configuration - a doorway to Avernus. But his ex-lover has inaugurate a advancing of bringing him back, and his niece, Kirsty Lawrence, finds herself bargaining with the Cenobites, angels to some, demons to others, whose greatest pleasure is the greatest pain.
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Hellraiser
Clive Barker's chilling classic. A dark, adult horror story of exquisite cruelty and brooding menace
Author Clive Barker's directorial debut is a flayed corpse of a movie: a gruesome curiosity with a shockingly perverse beauty that's impossible ever to feel entirely comfortable around. Set in London, but with a distinctly transatlantic twang, Hellraiser is a horror movie that British fans have long sought to reclaim as their own, despite its obvious pandering to US audiences. And well they might since its mix of gothic horror, inter-dimensional demons and S&M is a suitably adult riposte to the scream queen scares of contemporaneous 1980s teen horror like A Nightmare On Elm Street.
Written and directed by Barker, it harks back to an older tradi...
Intelligent Horror, rare
Cliver Barkers original Hellraiser should really be seen as its own film, separate from the ridiculous franchise it spawned. The Faustian themes of pleasure and pain having no distinction is really interesting, particularly when it relates to the female lead having an affair and living to regret it. The murders she needs to commit by having more affairs are analogous to trying to erase the painful memory by reliving it over and over, instead making the memory more apparent. The Cenobites are understated and therefore hold a majestic centrepiece to the movie. I just really wished they'd not resorted to the yellow graphics when destroying the cenobites at the end. When Bud Fox is watching Hellraiser in Wall St, it hammers the movie home as a cult classic, to be enjoyed if you're stre...
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