5/30/2023 0 Comments Clive barkers hellraiserBut it’s based on a short story, and the first movie more than exhausted the source material. I’m not ragging on Hellraiser it’s an innovative and scary movie. It’s just a scary puzzle box and some bondage monsters. And then… they had no idea where to go next, because the Hellraiser “mythos” doesn’t exist. The second movie they basically just redid the first movie, so that was OK. The problem came when they tried to make more movies. The puzzle box in itself is just intrinsically scary, and the bondage gear monsters were just perfect for their time. It’s scary and it’s gruesome, yes, but it had two very striking things: The puzzle box and the Cenobites (and by that I mean Pinhead). Hellraiser (the first movie) had something going for it. I recently(ish) watched all of the Hellraiser movies. By a whole bunch of people, including a bunch of editors
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