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| New World Pictures | Release Date: September 18, 1987 |
Starring:
Andrew Robinson, Anthony Allen, Ashley Laurence, Clare Higgins, Frank Baker, Leon Davis, Michael Cassidy, Oliver Smith, Robert Hines, Sean Chapman
Summary:
An unfaithful wife encounters the zombie of her dead lover; the demonic cenobites are pursuing him after he escaped their sadomasochistic underworld.
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Hellraiser is certainly a cut or two above the slasher films that seem to proliferate on Friday the 13ths and Halloweens. It's a decidedly adult picture, with some disquieting sexual tensions that simply wouldn't work with the usual teen crew. It's also a treatise on the thin line between pleasure and pain and how easily crossed it can be.
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Apr 18, 2020
The pinnacle of R-rated, practical effect horror and gore.
This movie makes you fear as much as wish, that if hell and heaven would be real instead of fiction, you would
GO
TO
HELL.
This movie makes you fear as much as wish, that if hell and heaven would be real instead of fiction, you would
GO
TO
HELL.
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Jan 24, 2018
Hellraiser is a horror classic. The movie is original, creepy, visually brilliant and has many twists that you won't see coming. This is one of my favourite horror movies of all time and it is on the level of a nightmare on elm street and scream.
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Dec 22, 2019
Horror Classic
With frightening scares and a classic villain, Hellraiser is one that you should watch.
With frightening scares and a classic villain, Hellraiser is one that you should watch.
29 of 32 users found this helpful293
Oct 2, 2022
A cult of its kind, this film introduces one of the scariest characters in cinema, but beyond that it doesn't scare much. In the end it is a good level splatter with a very particular texture.
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Oct 4, 2022
I had heard of this movie and pinhead/the cenobites for 2 decades. Given infinite decades I never would of guessed with the actual plot was of this movie. All time great practical effects, all time bad 80s acting by the main performers.
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May 22, 2022
Some good scenes and ideas, but at the end pretty boring and bad played by actors
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