Originally posted by ring3now!
**** PINHEAD HE"S A ****ING WANKER AND ALL THE ****ING HELLRAISER MOVIES,ALL OF THEM ****ING SUCK THE BIGGEST CROP OF SHIT IVE EVER ****ING SEEN WHAT A PIECE OF SHIT!
Hahaha what an idiot, this guy cracks me up, and he's a fan of the ring movies? 😆
Ok in all honesty, the only Hellraiser movies I liked were the first two, just really couldn't get into the rest of them.
Originally posted by seever333
i probably dont like hellraiser because i dont care much for gore...i think it was EvilDead that said this: "gore is the cheap way out" and i agree 100%
"Hellraiser" didn't/doesn't use gore as a way out, it was a compliment to an intriguing story, because Clive Barker is a sadistic mother ****er.
A lot of people's fascination with the "Hellraiser" saga is superficial. Pinhead and copious, well designed gore seem to be the lure. It's so much deeper than that, and alls you have to do is pay attention to the narrative of the first movie, and what it stands for now.
"Hellraiser" is one of the first Horror films where people bring on their own demise, and there's really no interaction on the part of the would be killer. Curiosity and greed are the killers. Your curiosity opens the box, you unleashed the tortured souls, then they offer you the gift of immortality and pleasure in their pained world, which they make you believe is better than what the real world has to offer.
Clive Barker's imagination is just a Horror fans dream. Dominating dialogue, rich with prophecies and morbid little quips that draw you in, along with the incredible special effects/gore. Yum.
As for the films themselves, "Hellraiser" is my personal favorite. It sets everything up, and my only gripe is too little of Pinhead, who was actually credited as "Main Cenobyte". "Hellraiser 2" expands on the mythos, while touching on the original. We learn a little more about Pinhead and the cenobytes origins as well.
"Hellraiser 3" is my favorite, storyline wise. Pinhead is virtually incapacitated for a good 1/4th of the movie. He's helpless, and this time he's actually going to have to barter for his own soul, taking up a partner to eventually find and destroy the puzzlebox so he can control Earth, making everyone a damned soul. Only thing is, it suffers from a lot of early 90's action film cliches that were totally out of place like explosions, bad one liners, etc.