Hellraiser

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sundays21

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Hey guys,

I recently bought Hellraiser one and two off of ebay, i havn't watched it yet, i plan on watching it with my girlfriend, just wonderd if its any good? Is it scary? I'm asking because we watched Halloween and it was the most boring horror flick ever so i don't really want to be disapointed.
 
Strange series of films - problem is nothing really starts to get explained until around hellraiser III. :)

Boring is not a word I would use to describe them.
 
The first two are great; the first more so than the second. By the third they've started to turn Pinhead into a more traditional horror movie antihero, which is quite fun but ultimately a bit dull.
 
The first two are spoiled somewhat by being a bit cheap looking and pretending to be set in the US whilst "British" screams from every frame. The phoney US accents in the first movie don't help either.
Even Andrew Robinson, who is American, sounRAB weird. :)
 
I didn't find them scary, but then horror rarely is for me. I did find them interesting and visually iconic. Worth watching seriously. You don't say what you do find frightening. There is plenty of pink latex and tomato sauce if you like that kind of thing.

The third film is more cliched and doesn't really build on the first two in my view. For example, the mention of leviathan in the second film is dropped completely. The fourth film is dreadful. Very, very, very bad. Fifth is mediocre, and sixth getting interesting again. I gather there's a seventh which I haven't seen.
 
first off dude halloween is a classic also check the trailer for the rob zombie remake.
hellraiser is a horror film of its time cbbc could show it no one would blink an eyelid.
you want to see a scary film watch Schindler's List scary and true
 
Hellraiser is the only horror flick to make me hide behind a cushion. It makes me cringe in places. Sitting here now i am thinking of one particular scene, but i wont say anything as i dont want to spoil it for you.

Enjoy :D
 
Actually it's up to about nine right now. I was really looking forward to the first one when it came out, everyone who saw it reviewed it etc, called it the most scary movie ever made, but I thought it was ok, but not scary. I enjoyed two more, mainly for Kenneth Cranham who's always good in everything he's in (like Rome). I have a soft spot for Tony Hickox, Waxworks was fun, and I thought his take on Hellraiser 3 was quite good, even though as I understand it he wasn't too happy with some of the restrictions put upon him while making it, if some articles were to be believed by Barker himself. Then along came 4. It looked really interesting, especially as FX whiz Kevin Yagher was coming up with some rather good ideas and gags for the film, except the studio baulked and took the film away from him hence the Allan Smithee credit and frankly an appalling movie. From there on I stayed away and found Doug Bradley's star turn in the Direct Line aRAB more interesting than what Pinhead does these days. If you get a chance, and if Film4 are daring like they used to be, you might see Doug in a rather good short film about a sadistic dentist who wasn't all that he seemed.
 
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