Preezy wrote:I don't think I've ever watched a Hellraiser film the whole way through. I have a fleeting memory of a skinless man in a loft or something like that which I'm sure is from the original?
Skinless folk are par for the course in Hellraiser, but yes the man (Frank) in the loft is from the first film.
Lotus wrote:Yeah I've never seen a Hellraiser film either. I think mentally I put it in a box with the likes of Poltergeist and just assumed it would be old/naff. Might give it a go though.
There's no question that they're of their time, but as far as low budget, classic British horror goes the first two are superb. I certainly don't think today's horror films are quite as inventive; it's all just exorcisms, creepy dead children and shaky cam dreariness.
Can't say I remember much about any of the films after the third outing (except for the fourth movie- Bloodlines - which had a cool background story about how a toy maker originally created the box* for a aristocrat obsessed with the Occult), but avoid the third at all costs. Awful.
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