A
sleazy man named Frank Cotton (Sean
Chapman) buys a puzzle box in a foreign
country that contains something mystical.
After fiddling with the box he summons up
some hellish creatures called the
Cenobites as they mame him and impales
him on hooks. Then he is torn apart.
His
brother named Larry (Andrew Robinson)
buys his house along with his new wife
Julia (Claire Higgins) whom she had a
mysterious affair with Frank and can't
shake the feeling off.
One day while they are moving into their
new home Larry accidentally crushes his
thumb while moving in a bed and its is
badly cut. His blood drips to the floor
and goes inside the creaks of the floor
and awakens Frank.
He manipulates Julia to bring men into
her house so he can use up their bodies
in order to look fully human again. She
brings men home making out that she is
doing a one night stand only to be
dragged up in a room to be killed by
Frank.
Larry's
daughter Kirsty (Ashley Laurence) visits
their new house and discovers that her
dead uncle is slowly being resurrected
and takes his puzzle box then runs off.
She faints afterwards and sees herself in
a hospital.
After fiddling with the puzzle box she
then enters the Cenobites world as the
leader named Pinhead (Doug Bradley) tells
her that she has a certain amount of time
to lure Frank back into their world if
she wants to stay alive and not to have
her soul torn apart.
An excellent
horror film indeed and great to watch on
Halloween.
It has everything you can picture in a
gruesome and horrifying horror film. Its
got monsters, corpses and a domain of
hell where people are tortured and torn
apart.
Great sound effects too in the film which
I'd advise this too all fans of this
genre.
You won't be disappointed.
The acting is
greatly done with a good supporting cast.
Newcomer Ashley Laurence was my
favourite as she really knows how to make
this show come to life with her actions
in it.
Claire Higgins does great when
she turns wicked in order to save her
former lovers soul and Andrew
Robinson is extremely convincing at
playing two parts of the caring father
and then a clone which is really his
brother who took his soul.
I also enjoyed Doug Bradley as
Pinhead but who doesn't who likes Hellraiser.
He is great at being a threat to
Laurence's character.
Theres a brief
nude scene between Claire Higgins
and Oliver Smith's character
during a flashback scene after they
fornicated.
Tons of gobs and
gore in this flick.
A man is stabbed with hooks.
There's pieces of flesh and guts on hooks
and on the floor.
A corpse is forming which is extrenely
slimey and gruesome.
A hammer is bashed in the head and face
by an Englishman.
A rat is stabbed with a nail to the wall.
Another rat is sliced open.
Flesh is torn off a side of a face as
well as a bloody stabbing along with a
bloodied skeletal corpse.
Frank who clones his brother is torn
apart with hooks.
Theres lots more of this too throughout
certain scenes of the film.
Clive Barker
totally rocks with his work on this film.
Everything about his direction in this
film is pure natural horror and can give
great tips on how to make a great horror
flick like this one to others who are
starting out.
He has effective scenes between Claire
Higgins, Sean Chapman and Oliver
Smith in past and present scenes
with their steamy relationship together.
Smith also looked very creepy in
the dark room when he crawls up to
Higgins' character and creeps her
out.
My favourite direction of Barker's
is when Ashley Laurence's
character toys with the puzzle box which
summons up the Cenobites as her reaction
is terrifically done.
He shows great effects in the film too
with his camera shots in the cutting room
floor.
The music is terrifically
composed by Christopher Young as
he packs alot of action suspense in the
film especially after the Cenobites are
set loose along with the suspenseful
wind. Well done Chris.
Frank Cotton: Come here, damn you,
I want to touch you.
Frank Cotton: I
thought I'd gone to the limits. I hadn't.
The Cenobites gave me an experience
beyond limits... pain and pleasure,
indivisible.
Lead Cenobite: The
box. You opened it. We came.
Kirsty Cotton: It's
just a puzzle box!
Lead Cenobite: Oh, no. It is a
means to summon us.
Lead Cenobite: No
tears, please. It's a waste of good
suffering.
Kirsty Cotton: Who
are you?
Lead Cenobite: Explorers in the
further regions of experience. Demons to
some. Angels to others.
Lead Cenobite: We
have such sights to show you!
Lead Cenobite: We
will tear your soul apart.
Frank Cotton: Come
to Daddy.
Frank Cotton: Jesus
wept.
Lead Cenobite: This
is not for your eyes.
Female Cenobite: We
had to hear it from your own lips.
Kirsty Cotton: You
can go to hell!
Female Cenobite: We can't. Not
alone.
Derelict: What's
your pleasure, sir?
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