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One of my all time favorites.

Absolutely Fantastic

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

This is the original which introduced us to Pinhead, the Cenobites and the Lament Configuration. And it's been downhill ever since. When some of the Hellraiser movies literally started as something else and were rewritten as Hellraiser movies you know you're asking for trouble. But we don't find that here. We have a good horror movie from the mind of Clive Barker. The story is pretty generic or at least it starts that way. A woman and her husband move into the house that was owned by his brother. The same brother that she had been having an affair with. But he disappeared under mysterious circumstances and this is her husband's attempt to repair his crumbling marriage. This is not really looking up for him.A drop of spilled blood in the attic resurrects the brother who shows up as a skinless and bloody corpse. The wife, who still loves the brother, finds him and agrees to harvest some blood so that he can come back completely to life. She does, he's restored and we're introduced to the Lament Configuration. It's a puzzle box. One that when you open it summons the Cenobites who will introduce you to a new world of carnal pleasures. Pleasures like getting ripped up by hooks and chains and having your body modified in unpleasant ways. Their reasoning is they no longer feel the difference between pleasure and pain and are simply seeking new experiences and want to share them.It's an interesting idea in which the Cenobites are not so much evil as just beyond our understanding. There's plenty of blood, quite a bit of gore and just enough menace from Pinhead, the lead Cenobite, to instill actual fear.It's a good example of what a horror movie can be without getting too caught up in just throwing blood and guts at the audience for an hour and a half and the occasional jump scare. The makers of horror movies should take note.

This past week I watched part 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8. Part 3, 4, and 8 are 3 star movies. Part 4 is a 4 star. Part 6 is pure garbage, and 1 star. I've seen part 2 many times and will watch again before leaving a feedback.I've seen the first many years ago, and rewatched it again last night. After watching subpar supposed sequels, now we are in the realm of a true B movie masterpiece. It is not perfect but it has got a lot going for it. I haven't read the original Clive Barker novel. But the story is solid. It starts with the purchase of the box and the opening, and the demons show up to tear apart Frank, the evil brother. Great start. We are then introduced to Franks brother, Larry, the good brother, and his new wife, Julia, moving into their parents old and disregarded home. Julia had a lustful affair with Frank, and she is bored with Larry. We are then introduced to Kirsty, Larry's daughter. Great characters so far, the family and the demons. Where it goes downhill with the characters is Kirsty's boyfriend, boring, unnecessary waste of time. We also get some scenes with a bum, who eats bugs and walks into fire, grabs the box, transforms into a winged demon and flies off. This did not work for me. The boyfriend and the bum scenes sucked. It would have been better to show a little more of Kirsty and some scenes of her dead mother and how that related to all the evil we're seeing here. All the actors did fine work. Julia was the best.The music was great, not overbearing, but fit perfectly with the film. The sequels failed in part because their music was competent, but not great. The cinematography was also very good. The editing built tension. The fx and makeup were great. When we see the demons for the first time, we see the female demon walk in profile, the we see Pinhead casually playing with the torn face of Frank, no dialogue here and it's a brief scene. But it's in the beginning and we are left wanting more. We get it. The dialogue at the hospital with Kirsty and with Pinhead and the female demon is great.The ending was good. But not great. I didn't like the boyfriend character or acting. This guy was a complete distraction. Then we get this deformed puppet "Engineer" monster thing. This thing was a joke. And the bug eating bum that walks into the fire to grab the box, transforms into a flying demon and takes off. Not good.So, this to me is a great B, B horror movie. It is not perfect. My preference, if they removed the above mentioned garbage and added Kristy's mom's death or some more back story on that, and some more demon's torturing Frank, maybe a little more back story on the box and the demons, this would have been a great A, B movie. Another positive with this is there is virtually no stupid comedy joke one liners like we find in most commercial releases.This is a great effort. But after discovering Lucia Fulci, it looks like this would have been a great candidate for Clive Barker to hire Fulci as director. Hellraiser is a great movie, and it has some atmosphere. I believe Fulci would have had atmosphere all over this movie.Rating is a B, for a great B movie. 7 stars. IMDb users have it right on this one.

Review of the Scarlet BoxIf 2014 was the year of Nightbreed, then 2015 has been the year of Hellraiser. First we saw the release of Clive Barker's The Scarlet Gospels which was a wonderful send off to everyone's favorite cenobite Pinhead. Then we were given the exhaustive and highly entertaining documentary Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II which I consider to be the final word on the making of the first two films. And finally to end the year, Arrow Video has given the fans The Scarlet Box which contains new 2K remastered transfers of the first three Hellraiser films and is loaded with all sorts of cool (old and new) extras that should please any hardcore fan of the series.Read the rest at http://www.clivebarkercast.com/2015/11/29/review-the-scarlet-box/

I have to say, it could be because I only watched this now when there are already better effects, but I have to admit I found the movie to be ... boring. It wasn't particularly bad, but it didn't scare me. I mean, it certainly killed time but I wouldn't watch it again if I had the choice. I found the story line to be uninteresting. Every time there was an interaction between the woman and her dead/undead/zombie/demon lover I was staring at the screen and shaking my head. The demons did not really do much and the girl, the daughter, was just kinda there.