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Hellraiser Reviews
It is very easy for stories of such darkness and depravity to feel miserable and unwatchable in a movie standpoint. However, Hellraiser is able to be as dark as it wishes will keeping you invested with great effects, good performances, and some of the most iconic villain designs in horror with the Cenobites: Pinhead and his Gash (yes, the offical term). Their backseat role feels sensible in this movie, unlike the rest of this franchise.
This movie is absolutely crazy. That's the best way to describe it. It's like Demon 79 but darker and fused with The 9th Circle (the short film where Art the Clown first appeared). Let's begin. The plot is worth talking about as it is interesting. A guy manages to escape hell but needs people to be killed in order to regain his normal form. It's crazy and works well, adding horror as the guy, named Frank Cotton, slowly but surely regains his flesh but turns into a blood-soaked figure. And there's also the Cenobites, who are mysterious and look cool. The film is also absolutely crazy. Like, the way the Cenobites are summoned is a puzzle cube, they rip people apart with chains, and a dragon steals the box at the end. Well, a demon that looks like a dragon at least. We don't see much of hell but what we see is cool. We see it more next film anyways. Overall, a crazy movie and a very good movie.
I was really looking forward to watching this movie after playing the video game Dead by Daylight. As the lead cenobite better known as "Pinhead" is a playable character. Boy was I disappointed. The film is boring and the cenobites are barely in the film. Just about an unfaithful wife who lures men to her house to resurrect her husband's dead brother who she slept with before and it was a really good time for her. The acting is bad. It's not scary. just gory. I would not recommend watching this film. The cenobites are a great design.
Boring and rubbish. This movie was not scary at all.
In the Navy we saw this shortly after it came out - out at sea - in a rough patch. I don't think anyone got any sleep that night. Your average sailor is pretty well hardened to horror pics, but this one...
Intriguing mystery of character motivations behind their fixation and history with the cenobites. Great creature work and character design for all of the cenobites. Solid acting from Pinhead's actor. Can't tell if Julia's affair is a well-done portrayal of assault or a poor framing of it as a consensual affair. I was really invested in the Frank storyline where he coerced Julia to help rejuvenate him back to life. I ironically lost some interest when it devolved to typical “undignified screaming & crying final girl chased by monsters” stuff with the cenobites & Kirsty. Or when the hospital conveniently keeps Kirsty hostage by locking her in without explaining what’s going on even though they legally can't do that since she isn't institutionalized (God, I hate that trope in horror movies). But then it gets interesting again when Kirsty offers to trade Frank's soul for hers to the cenobites with a pretty cool climax that ties it all together with some crazy body horror brought to life from insane practical effects.
Lá quando eu era criança, tinha muito medo dos cenobites. Este filme passava no SBT, eu ia assistir e depois me borrava de medo. Mas hoje, sei do que tinha medo, era da maquiagem. Todo o filme se baseia na reconstrução do Frank, que é maravilhosa, considerando um filme de orçamento baixo. Isso é inesquecível. Mas o roteiro, e as atuações são bem fracas. Aliás não sei como o filme se manteve com tantas continuações. Este é um daqueles filmes onde torço para o vilão.
Maybe I would have enjoyed this at the time it came out, but having watched it in 2024 as an adult, I can't really appreciate what they were trying to do. I found it more funny than scary. Lady lures men to house as sacrifices to bring her husband's brother (and former slam piece) back from a gooey existence is the actual plot. It has little to do with hell or cenobites, to my great disappointment. Still, it was nice to see what people reference in shows/movies now.
This film is terrifying and has some of the best gore I've ever seen and the actors are just simply amazing in this.
Hellraiser… Yeah it’s pretty okay. I did almost fall asleep through this movie because of how somewhat boring it is. This movie starts with Frank solving the cube then getting killed off in a very gross and gruesome way. It’s great. Anyways, we go to the plot where a family moves into a house and we meet some characters played actually really well. The whole thing where this woman was killing people to get flesh for him was actually pretty interesting though. The cenobites are actually played great and Pinhead is actually an well-written and cool antagonist. Overall, the movie is okay with some issues that make it a major snooze-fest and great gore. 6.4/10
Not really my thing but the plot and effects looked to be pretty good for its day.
This film brings monsters and ghouls from hell into your living room for a disturbing and gory effort that manages to accomplish alot with little.
Hellraiser is one hellva frightening horror film about s&m lol, and Clive Barker's vision is really unbelievable and very dark and very gothic and very gruesome scene and it welcomes new horror villain of the 80's.
Truly one of the greatest hottor movies of the last 50 years. Not to be missed by horror fans.
Cool old horror movie. Pretty gruesome!
Based off of one of Clive Barker's stories Hellraiser is full of mysteries.
The special effects are amazing and the premise is pretty good,I just didn't like that Julia is a cheater,but hey it's what moves the plot I guess so yeah.Worth a watch if you're into supernatural horror. The ending was a mindfuck and I can't understand it at all. 7/10 pretty good movie but I wouldn't watch it again to be honest.
One of a very small handful of films that deserve to be called the Citizen Kane of horror movies. A genuinely unique world view, coupled with muscular direction by a young, novice film director. At turns beautiful, disturbing and downright chilling, this film carries a flavour that few have ever managed. It shows its low budget orgins here and there, and the hairstyles etc date it a little (and curse the studio for making them dub the english actors' dialogue with american voices, as it makes no sense in terms of the story), but the overall weight and effect of this film is magical.
He'll tear your soul apart. Hellraiser is a 1987 British supernatural horror film written and directed by Clive Barker 🧟♂️ Not bad, but not my favourite either 😐 Meh, it passed the time. Just. 😐 👍🏼👎🏼 SFF In the end, this is so bad it’s laughable… Hedonist Frank Cotton finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons the Cenobites, who open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible.