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Hellraiser
(Myth/Demon/Slasher) 8********skulls
*Blood* *Violent* *Some Strong Language* *Sexual Situations* *Brief Nudity* *Extremely Gory*
1987/Color/Min./New World Video & New World Pictures & Cinemarque Entertainment B.V. & Film Futures Productions/Rated R
Director............Clive Barker (Nightbreed)
Screenplay......Clive Barker
Music...............Christopher Young
Producer..........Christopher Figg
Executive Producer.....
Director of Photography..
Special Effects by Geoff Portass
Special Makeup effects by Bob Keen
Dramatis Personae
Larry.................Andrew Robinson (Liberace, Shoot to Kill, Dirty Harry)
Julia.................Claire Higgins (Hellraiser II)
Kirsty.................Ashley Laurence(Hellraiser II, Hellraiser 3)
Frank................Sean Chapman
Steve................Robert Hines
Monster Frank..Oliver Smith
1st Victim.........Anthony Allen
2nd Victim........Leon Davis
3rd Victim........Michael Cassidy
Pinhead...........Doug Bradley (Hellraiser II, Hellraiser 3)
Chatterer.........Nicholas Vince (Hellraiser II, Hellraiser 3)
Butterball........Simon Bamford (Hellraiser II, Hellraiser 3)
Critique: This is an extremely gory fast paced and slick horror film
new house uncle frank was already there with his porno pictures and maggots flashbacks special effects god help me graphic
Plot Summary: A man is sold a puzzle box in the middle east. He manipulates the Rubic Cube-like box in a circle of candles. Suddenly hooks dig into his flesh. The scene switches to a jig saw puzzle of body parts. Something g, or someone is manipulating the box again. Soon we are in an empty room. A young couple arrive at a barren house. The man is home after ten years. The place is cluttered with religious paraphernalia. The new wife, Julia, finds pornographic photos of uncle Frank, Larry's brother. Julia recalls uncle Frank. Frank has had a checkered career. Kirsty arrives, the grown up daughter of Liberace and his first wife. Julia was taken with Frank when they met before. Julia had promised that she'd do anything he wants. Liberace had cut himself. pretty good. Oddly, the blood soaks into the floor. Tissue seems to be forming in the floor boards where the blood fell. That night something g happens. stalks rise from the floor. Tissue grows. Larry is telling of his injury at a cocktail party down below. Julia is not impressed with Liberace's friends, and soon makes her excuses. She goes up to the attic where she was with Frank. A slimy ill formed creature greets Julia there and explains that he is Frank, reanimated by his brother's blood which dripped on the floor, up in the attic. Frank's a floor wiggler, and needs some help for the next step: more blood. Julia thinks about her plight with the impotent Liberace and decides she'll do it. Kirsty and her beau pass a Jesus figure bum in a doorway. Kirsty is troubled by unsettling dreams of her father swathed in blood. Julia picks up some traveler in a bar. She lures him up to the attic. Julia smashes him a few times with a hammer, and Frank is in a position to feed. Frank informs Julia that it's only a matter of time before the Cenobites find him, that he's slipped away from them. Another pickup and someone else is brought into Frank's web. Frank had made a bargain with the Cenobites to bring pleasure and pain indivisible beyond any limits he had known. Later, Frank bumps upstairs, and Larry starts to investigate. Julia prevails on Frank not to eat Larry. Kirsty catches Julia bringing a man up for Frank, and soon Kirsty is in Frank's lair. Frank thinks that some things have to be endured. That's what makes the pleasures sweet. Kirsty steels the cube from the attic. She runs away and faints. She's got the box and soon is manipulating it. Kirsty goes beyond. She is chased by a fanged monster. Then she is back in the room and a Cenobite arrives. She summons the Cenobites. They are about to bring her back when she tells them about Frank. when Kirsty arrives, Frank has taken on Larry's form. Frank's last statement, before he is pulled apart is "Jesus wept". The demons haven't finished with her. Jesus reaches into the fire i the end, and becomes a skeletal dragon. In the last clip, the box is back in the middle east. What's your price sir?
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