Hellraiser

HKFanatic

Released the same year as "Nightmare on Elm Street 3" and "Prom Night II," Clive Barker's "Hellraiser" feels beamed in from another dimension compared to the standard slasher fare of the decade. Despite its low budget origins, "Hellraiser" registers as the product of an imagination that doesn't celebrate evil but has given a great deal of thought to the many ways it can manifest itself. What a phantasmagoria.

kartina obskura

the cinematography was beautiful, but the pace wasn't that great and i didn't like the story itself much. funny how steve reacted to demons from hell like he saw a few rats in an old house. the dragon ending was over the top but definitely had some nice trash value in it.

msmichel

Essential horror. Barker's debut was the thing of nightmares melding S&M archetypes with extreme horror while providing high production value and casting that exceeded the genre. Clare Higgins is simply brilliant here with a performance both macabre and sexy. Andrew Robinson was also good here and boy could Ashley Laurence scream. Unfortunate it launched a series of middling sequels however.

Curtis

If you can get beyond the blood and gore, this is a very intelligent film. Clive Barker's low-budget debut feature is a fetishistic nightmare about what really happens when our desires grab hold of us in more ways than one.

Ghostman

An admirably ambitious horror film that ultimately fails. It may have outstanding gore but it just doesn't have an interesting enough narrative. Really incoherent characterizations that lack depth; by the ending you just won't give a shit about anyone because you really don't know who they actually are. Disappointing, I thought this was a classic.

PolarisDiB

It has good makeup effects & a delightfully sick sense of humor, & I give it credit for a protagonist who isn't as stupid as most female horror leads. The other woman, though, needs to spend a little more time asking questions & a little less time jumping from 'deranged half-melted corpse asking me for blood' to murder without at least asking how or why. --PolarisDiB

Tigrão

i couldn't help feeling a weird film noir vibe within the film, with a Clare Higgins looking very much like Simone Signoret in Diaboliques.

elenagallen

An inhabitant of hell escapes it and takes advantage of her lover's murdering skills to be reborn in flesh. The disadvantages of ignorantly playing with Saturn's cube.