Hellraiser?

[Toddums]

I have only seen one scene from a Hellraiser movie, it had a weird giant-scorpion thingy in it (I was like 10 at the time) that was attacking a girl in a mental hospital?

Anyways, lately I have been trying to expand my horror movie ....um.... knowledge? Whatever.


Can someone please give me the basic premise of this infamous Hellraiser series?

[the_man_you_fear]

basiclly there is this puzzlebox thats the gateway to hell if you figure it out you get visted by these people called cenobites and they show you what they call the beuty of suffering. theres some crazy ass torture scences its pretty fuckin gorie and really scary. good movie one of my favorites

[Toddums]

Scary... Im never touching a rubix cube again..lol



Thanks for the info



P.S. That avatar is very creepy, Leatherface in the friscalating dusklight

[AUSTIN316426808]

really scary.


To each his own I guess.

[the_real_linda]

the one with the mental hospital you saw was hellbound hellraiser 2

http://members.tripod.com/rgordley/pinhead.jpg

it makes no sense but is my favourite....

and i find pinhead rather sexy... is that weird :confused:

http://images.art.com/images/-/Hellraiser---Pinhead--C10040177.jpeg

[VampiricClown]

It's very strange, and the storyline deviates a lot after the first three. My suggestion, watch only the first three. I just finished watching them a couple of weeks ago. The last one is horrible.

[fortunato]

It's very strange, and the storyline deviates a lot after the first three. My suggestion, watch only the first three. I just finished watching them a couple of weeks ago. The last one is horrible.

agreed.

move on after the third movie.

[jenna26]

I realize I am in the minority on this, and probably with good reason, but I actually like most of the Hellraiser films. They are guilty pleasures of mine I admit. But I actually like the fact they tried something a bit different in some of the films.

[Dante'sInferno]

the one with the mental hospital you saw was hellbound hellraiser 2

http://members.tripod.com/rgordley/pinhead.jpg

it makes no sense but is my favourite....

and i find pinhead rather sexy... is that weird :confused:

http://images.art.com/images/-/Hellraiser---Pinhead--C10040177.jpegIt's his eyes.Mysterious, yet sad.

[Demonique]

I am a huge Hellraiser fan though I would agreed that they got worse toward the last. I only watch up to Hellraiser 4. I believe the "scorpion thingy" was supposed to be the engineer and if you look at the bottom of the screen you can see the wheels of the dolly they pushed it on. Sorry I seem to be leaking trivia.

[Roderick Usher]

I love the first two. Scary? Not really, but a wonderfully perverse exploration of the pleasure/pain principle and overtly sexual in a way that T&A horror can never be. These films were quite formative for me when they came out. They helped me appreciate concepts beyond my limited and very Catholic world view and I got really into SM/BD after watching these in the theater.

Granted, I've outgrown that phase, but I'll always appreciate the slanted view and how it affected me. It's funny to think how tame the films seem to me now, but when they came out they were amazingly fresh.

[alkytrio666]

I love the first two. Scary? Not really, but a wonderfully perverse exploration of the pleasure/pain principle and overtly sexual in a way that T&A horror can never be. These films were quite formative for me when they came out. They helped me appreciate concepts beyond my limited and very Catholic world view and I got really into SM/BD after watching these in the theater.

Granted, I've outgrown that phase, but I'll always appreciate the slanted view and how it affected me. It's funny to think how tame the films seem to me now, but when they came out they were amazingly fresh.
Yep. One and two are tight, and very creepy.
When I first saw Hellraiser, it actually really creeped me out. There's something about that perversely thick atmosphere...gives me the willies...

[Toddums]

Thanks for the info guys, I will be checking 1 and 2 out for sure.