![]() ![]() Gone (an autobiography of a demon in a weirdly mundane vision of Hell) and make it unsettling. As I mentioned earlier, I loved Hellbound Heart, and he's one of those rare writers that can take even a rather silly premise like Mr. Barker, I've read some of his fiction, and most of it has been really good. ![]() It's kind of obvious why Clive Barker felt the need to take control of the character again.Īs for Mr. Whereas even Jason X and New Nightmare, while radically changing the premise and tone of their predecessors, at least had the decency to be ABOUT Freddy and Jason, the Hellraiser sequels actually mostly started out as independent horror movies, that got adapted into the Hellraiser 'franchise', presumably so Doug Bradley could reassure the world that he was still alive. Hellraiser, more than any other slasher film, has had the most stupidly unrelated sequels to date. I devoured the Hellbound Heart (the Novella by Barker that started it all), and the first two Hellraiser movies, that had an amazing mythos, fantastic acting, amazing practical effects, and a surreal, vivid, and above all, visceral vision of Hell that made me want more. As you might have gathered both from my own creative works, and the other posts on this blog, I'm a big fan of body horror, and Hellraiser does body horror like very few others. ![]() To say that I am a fan of Hellraiser is like saying that the ocean is slightly wet. ![]()
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