Thursday, October 11, 2012

Hellraiser (1987)

From New World Pictures (second only to Cannon) and writer-director Clive Barker comes a gruesome, bloody, and fun horror picture. Larry Cotton (played by Andrew Robinson, the insane Scorpio from Dirty Harry) moves into an old house owned by his family with his second wife. Unbeknownst to him, his brother Frank has gotten into trouble with netherworld overseers, the Cenobites, and his wife Julia is helping him return to the material plane. The story, acting, and production values are a bit low in places, but the atmosphere and special effects make up for it. Slimy, bloody, disjointed prosthetic effects include: the iconic pinhead Cenobite; part of a re-materializing, coagulating body pushing itself through an attic floor before joining itself together; and a floating, wall climbing scorpion-like demon. Hellraiser has issues, but it's good, over-the-top fun.

7/10

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