Looking further into the story, Hellraiser IV: Bloodline depicted a story taking place in both the past (18th Century France) and simultaneously in a futuristic spaceship, showing how the Cenobites as an entity transcend time and place.

So preoccupied with enacting suffering to those they deem deserving of, the Pinhead character itself is so grossly ethereal that gender as a concept feels like the least of this particular monster's worries. Its unforgettable images of pain being dispatched (helmed by an incredible mix of makeup and practical effects) remind one of the kind of anti-smoking adverts adorned on cigarette packaging in some countries: contorted bodies all ruined by one's own decision-making in something so toxic. The first film is minimalist in comparison to where the rest of the Hellraiser franchise heads, but it has a poetry in its own dank vileness. It is a film that has remained lusty and covered in all manner of liquids. This is an out-and-out horror film that is consistently flirtatious, grinning in the dark with an ulterior motive underneath every new line of dialogue.

Sex and gender relations are the life force of Hellraiser and always have been. Sex, or in this case the promise of it, leads to death. Julia, a cheat and a horrible stepmother, heads to a bar with the promise to seduce some guy she meets - to bring him back to the house to murder him for a re-composing Frank. and there will certainly be hell to pay.Through a mishap with a stray nail in the original film, Frank has returned to the living and requires blood to survive and become whole again. But his brother's love-crazed wife, Julia, has discovered a way to bring Frank back-though the price will be bloody and terrible. It is one of the most frightening stories you are likely to ever read.įrank Cotton's insatiable appetite for the dark pleasures of pain led him to the puzzle of Lemarchand's box, and from there, to a death only a sick-minded soul could invent. It is about greed and love, desire and death, life and captivity, bells and blood. The Hellbound Heart is one of Barker's best-a nerve-shattering novella about the human heart and all the great terrors and ecstasies within its endless domain. The classic tale of supernatural obsession from the critically acclaimed master of darkness- and the inspiration for the cult classic film Hellraiserįrom his scores of short stories, bestselling novels, and major motion pictures, no one comes close to the vivid imagination and unique terrors provided by Clive Barker. Prison Life: Help for Inmates and Families Used : Fiction, Romance and Urban Fiction Used: Science Fiction & Fantasy and Horror Novels Used: Western and Historical Novels & Historical Romance Used: Mysteries, Thrillers, Suspense and Action Novels Science Fiction & Fantasy and Horror Novels Mysteries, Thrillers, Suspense and Action Novels

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