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Hellbound: Hellraiser II expands on Barker’s original vision as screenwriter Peter Atkins takes Julia Cotton, her step daughter Kirsty (Ashley Laurence) and the sinister Dr. Channard (Kenneth Cranham) into the dominion of the Cenobites themselves. Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth sees Pinhead set loose on the sinful streets of New York City to create chaos with a fresh cadre of Cenobitic kin. Then, Hellraiser: Bloodline sinks its hooks into past, present and future with the story of Phillip LeMarchand, the 18th-century toymaker who made the lament configuration puzzle box, his descendent John Merchant – a 20th-century architect whose most recent building bears a striking resemblance to the lament configuration – and Dr. Paul Merchant, a 22nd-century engineer and designer of The Minos, a space station which is a great deal more than it seems.
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The 100 Greatest Props in Movie History, and the Stories Behind Them". thrillist.com. Thrillist. 10 July 2017. Archived from the original on 11 July 2017 . Retrieved 31 January 2021. Newly uncovered extended EPK interviews with writer/director Clive Barker and stars Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, and effects artist Bob Keen shot during the making of Hellraiser Hellraiser was initially banned in Ontario by the Ontario Film and Video Review Board. [20] [21] By a 3-2 majority vote, the film was deemed "not approved in its entirety as it contravenes community standards". It was banned because of its "brutal, graphic violence with blood-letting throughout, horror, degradation and torture". [21] In August 1987, Hellraiser was passed by the Ontario Film Review Board, but only after several cuts were made to the film. New World Mutual Pictures of Canada cut about 40 seconds to get the film passed with an R rating. Thirty-five seconds of an extended torture scene featuring hooks pulling apart a body and face were removed, as well as a scene of squirming rats nailed to a wall. [22] Critical response [ edit ] Flesh is a Trap - brand new visual essay exploring body horror and transcendence in the work of Clive Barker by genre author Guy Adams (The World House)The two 5.1 remixes are rather unremarkable affairs. While the additional bass is appreciated and gives the audio a little more ‘oomph’, surround effects aren’t particularly convincing. That Rat-Slice Sound - brand new appreciation of composer Christopher Young’s scores for Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser Ii by Guy Adams The Pursuit of Possibilities - brand new 60-minute discussion between acclaimed horror authors Paula D. Ashe (We Are Here To Hurt Each Other) and Eric LaRocca (Everything the Dark Eats) celebrating the queerness of Hellraiser and the importance of Clive Barker as a queer writer
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Puzzle Boxes are prominently displayed atop the fireplace during interviews featuring the Auditor of the Stygian Inquisition. Books of Blood and Beyond: The Literary Works of Clive Barker – archival appreciation by horror author David Gatwalk of Barker’s written work, from The Books of Blood to The Scarlet Gospels Under the Skin: Doug Bradley on Hellbound – archival interview with the iconic actor about his second appearance as ‘Pinhead’The Hell Priest reveals that any gift given by the Cenobites cannot be returned, but exchanged for different gifts. Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser: (HD 1:29:17) Comprised of vintage and new interview material, this is really and truly the definitive making-of documentary about the film. Featuring interviews with the cast and crew, it's an exhaustive look at the film and it's legacy all these years later. Doug Bradley, in particular, is a great contributor as he had been a part of the franchise for nearly 20 years and offers up a lot of perspective of where the series started and how it progressed. Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. Hellraiser is a 1987 British supernatural horror film [6] written and directed by Clive Barker, and produced by Christopher Figg, based on Barker's 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart. [1] The film marked Barker's directorial debut. [7] Its plot involves a mystical puzzle box that summons the Cenobites, a group of extra-dimensional, sadomasochistic beings who cannot differentiate between pain and pleasure. The leader of the Cenobites is portrayed by Doug Bradley, and identified in the sequels as "Pinhead". a b c d e f Hoad, Phil (30 October 2017). "How we made Hellraiser". The Guardian . Retrieved 30 October 2017.
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For me, 'Hellraiser' is an exceptional piece of modern gothic horror. By playing with themes and ideas found within Dante's Inferno and putting a unique spin on the vampire mythos, 'Hellraiser' became a bloody, disgusting, and at times uncomfortable horror movie favorite. It also happened to be my introduction to what could be described as BDSM culture. This was a pre-internet era, after all, I couldn't just Google the stuff like kids can do today. I had to rent violent horror movies to understand that there was a subsection of the population that took pleasure in pain - at least controlled amounts of it. The thing that I always loved about the original 'Hellraiser' film is that it was - at least to me - about addiction and the effects it has on family. This is obviously a very loose interpretation but it's applicable. Uncle Frank has a problem that he ropes his brother's wife into and the results tear apart the entire family. On top of the blood, the guts, and the liberal usage of maggots and offal to depict some truly gut-churning imagery, 'Hellraiser' was a horrific movie and scary because it hit home. The terrors of Pinhead and the Cenobites were localized, they were intimate to the immediate characters and the rest of society was unaffected by these events. As a result, I became a Clive Barker fan and began reading his works. Extras: What’s your pleasure? If you said bonus features, then this boxset is going to put a huge smile on your face. Experience the sublime agony of this quartet of torment like you never have before in all new 4K restorations from the original camera negatives. Hell has never looked better! Being Frank: Sean Chapman on Hellbound – actor Sean Chapman talks about reprising the role of Frank Cotton in the first Hellraiser sequel Hellraiser was followed by nine sequels, the first seven of which featured Doug Bradley reprising his role as Pinhead. Clive Barker has stated that he signed away the story and character rights to the production company prior to the release of the first film, not realizing the critical and financial success it would be. [41]English Descriptive Audio: Uncompressed PCM Stereo 2.0 and Lossless DTS-HD MA 5.1 sound for Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II Unboxing Hellraiser, a brand new visual essay celebrating the Lament Configuration by genre author Alexandra Benedict (The Beauty of Murder) Lost in the Labyrinth – archival featurette featuring interviews with Barker, Randel, Keen, Atkins and others Other LeMarchand boxes appear throughout the Hellraiser film series. Dr. Philip Channard is depicted as a collector in Hellbound: Hellraiser II; he has three on display in his study and later in the film, some of the patients in his institute are seen with them hooked to their faces. The demon princess Angelique is narrated to have created several in Hellraiser: Bloodline. The Host in Hellraiser: Hellworld also possesses several. Most of the boxes seen in the films are not named or used onscreen, so their powers — if any — are unknown. They may simply be fakes or nonfunctional replicas.
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Experience the sublime agony of this quartet of torment like you never have before in all-new 4K restorations from the original camera negatives. Hell has never looked better! An almost naked man, Frank sits cross legged holding a puzzle box. It is a dark room and he sits in a square of candles. In the United States, The New York Times stated that Barker cast "singularly uninteresting actors" while "the special effects aren't bad - only damp". [25] The Washington Post referred to the film as a "dark, frequently disturbing and occasionally terrifying film" but also argued that "Barker's vision hasn't quite made the conversion from paper to celluloid [...] There are some weaknesses, particularly the framing of close-ups and the generic score, but there are some moments of genuinely inventive gore [...] the film falls apart at its climax, degenerating to a surprisingly lame ending full of special effects and triumphant good". [26] Roger Ebert gave the film one-half of a star out of four and deemed it "as dreary a piece of goods as has masqueraded as horror in many a long, cold night. This is one of those movies you sit through with mounting dread, as the fear grows inside of you that it will indeed turn out to be feature length" and that "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". [27] Variety stated that Hellraiser is "well made, well acted, and the visual effects are generally handled with skill". [2] In an interview for Samhain magazine in July 1987, Barker mentioned some problems that censors had with more erotic scenes in the film: Under the Skin: Doug Bradley on Hellbound: (SD 10:53) This is another nice vintage feature that lets the actor talk about his character at length.Here presented in brand new 2k restorations, Arrow Films is proud to present the first three instalments in one of the most fiercely original horror franchises of all time. Under the Skin: Doug Bradley on Hellraiser III: (SD 13:46) Bradley gives some great details about the crazy circumstances that went with the rights after New World collapsed and new producers began fiddling with the story and crew. In the 1980s, Clive Barker changed the face of horror fiction, throwing out the rules to expose new vistas of terror and beauty, expanding the horizons for every genre writer who followed him. With Hellraiser, his first feature film as director, he did the same for cinema. Under the Skin: Doug Bradley on Hellraiser - archival interview with the iconic actor about his first appearance as ‘Pinhead’ That Rat-Slice Sound – brand new appreciation of composer Christopher Young’s scores for Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II by Guy Adams
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