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Hellraiser films

Killed_by_Death

Killed_by_Death

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Couldn't sleep, so here I am watching the original Hellraiser!

Lemmy sort of endorsed the franchise at one point:

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There is a small blurb in "White Line Fever" about his time on set.

There was an Origins film in someone's plan, showing Pinhead's beginnings as Elliott Spencer, but it never got completely off the ground.

At one time I was quite mad about the whole franchise & bought a replica of the puzzle-box.
It was just six sheets of plastic you glued together & was really lightweight, so like a moron I tried filling it with epoxy to give it some weight.

The epoxy expanded & flowed out the top. In the end it didn't look so bad, but unfortunately I didn't manage to save any photos of it & I can't even recall where I left it.
I flipped it over as the epoxy was coming out & set it on the missing piece. It all fused together & looked like the box was coming out of a dark gray puddle, LOL!

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For a long time I thought Clive Barker was an evil genius, but TBH I gave his other works a read & wasn't a fan. Last try was "The Great & Secret Show".

Maybe I'll try Cabal next, which apparently is what the film Nightbreed is based on.

The last one in the franchise that I saw in the theater was part 3, the same one that has Motörhead on the soundtrack. Terry Farrell is in that one, as well.

Any other lovers of the Hellraiser franchise?
 
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Nightbreed is one of my fave films and Cabal is a really excellent book. Much as I like Clive, a good way (I've found) to enjoy his work wholeheartedly is to acknowledge that he's an ideas man. His prose is a little too overwrought (IMO) for a genre writer, but his capacity for imagination is just stupendous and focusing on that is really helpful.

Also apparently there's an ULTIMATE Cabal Cut coming? Oh wow.

 
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Killed_by_Death said:
Couldn't sleep, so here I am watching the original Hellraiser!

Lemmy sort of endorsed the franchise at one point:

g8cjvdafmpc4zp9dbisi


There is a small blurb in "White Line Fever" about his time on set.

There was an Origins film in someone's plan, showing Pinhead's beginnings as Elliott Spencer, but it never got completely off the ground.

At one time I was quite mad about the whole franchise & bought a replica of the puzzle-box.
It was just six sheets of plastic you glued together & was really lightweight, so like a moron I tried filling it with epoxy to give it some weight.

The epoxy expanded & flowed out the top. In the end it didn't look so bad, but unfortunately I didn't manage to save any photos of it & I can't even recall where I left it.
I flipped it over as the epoxy was coming out & set it on the missing piece. It all fused together & looked like the box was coming out of a dark gray puddle, LOL!

51iNuMvDVoL._SS256_CR13,13,230,230_.jpg


For a long time I thought Clive Barker was an evil genius, but TBH I gave his other works a read & wasn't a fan. Last try was "The Great & Secret Show".

Maybe I'll try Cabal next, which apparently is what the film Nightbreed is based on.

The last one in the franchise that I saw in the theater was part 3, the same one that has Motörhead on the soundtrack. Terry Farrell is in that one, as well.

Any other lovers of the Hellraiser franchise?
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Ozzy and Lemmy did songs for Hellraiser 3. That was sort of the last good one. After that they got weird and were clearly out of plot lines. Pretty cool slasher movies.
 
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socialleper said:
Ozzy and Lemmy did songs for Hellraiser 3. That was sort of the last good one. After that they got weird and were clearly out of plot lines. Pretty cool slasher movies.
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Inferno is a real wild card. It's the fifth film, I think. Legitimately unsettling and way more thematically true to the source than any of the latter day ones. They weirdly repeated the storyline almost verbatim (but stupider) in whatever Judgment was supposed to be.
 
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*ToNeS* said:
Inferno is a real wild card. It's the fifth film, I think. Legitimately unsettling and way more thematically true to the source than any of the latter day ones. They weirdly repeated the storyline almost verbatim (but stupider) in whatever Judgment was supposed to be.
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I don't remember the names, but one was seriously Hellraiser in Space.
 
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I've watched all 10 films in the series--but for me, the only ones worth a re-watch are I & II and maybe III ( sometimes). The rest just don't cut it for me--especially VIII (Hellworld). That was just painful to watch.
 

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