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1987 Directed by Clive Barker. Starring: Andrew Robinson,
Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Sean Chapman.
Frank
Cotton has bought a magic box, which will give him great pleasure
if he manage to open it. Frank opens it but reach no delight,
only insufferable pain. The box open a door to hell, and its
travellers, the cenobites, tear him apart.
A
few years later moves Frank´s brother Larry and his wife into
the house where it happened. When they carry in furniture
in the house hurts Larry his hand pretty seriously, and blood
dripping on the floor. Somehow is Frank´s soul still there,
and the blood on the floor brings him back to life again.
But when he sucked up everything, it only last for his framework
and some scraps. Larry´s wife Julia has always been attracted
of Frank, but is shocked when she look at him now. Frank is
convincing her that it really is him, and beg also for help.
He must get more blood to become complete again. Julia begins
now to pick up men from public houses, and brings them after
that home up to the attic there she slays them with a hammer.
But in the meantime Frank get better, learns the cenobites
that he escaped from hell. And they ain´t happy.
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Horror
writer Clive Barker´s direction debut has an unusual weak
script, poor uninspired actors and at times fairly bad effects.
The reason why "Hellraiser" became a horror classic at the
same moment it came out, is probably the original plot. Because
this was something completely different. A very fascinating
tale about a woman who does everything for the man she once
so ardently wanted, but now only is a disgusting slime-heap.
The slasher fans got also a new favorite in the cenobite leader
"Pinhead". The story in "Hellraiser" don´t gave too much room
for Pinhead, but the viewers screamed after more, and in the
latest sequels has he become the central figure. The three
other cenobites are worse in my opinion. Clive Barker has
racked his brain too much in order to create dangerous looking
creatures. It occur quite a lot blood in "Hellraiser", but
I can´t say that one get frightened of it. As a whole is this
a highly entertaining flick, with the exception of the last
ten minutes which seems to has been made in a hurry.
Kent
Palmgren
Thrilling
Movie Review
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