Storyline
Larry and his wife, Julia move into an old house and discover a hideous creature - the man's half-brother, who is also the woman's former lover - hiding upstairs. Having lost his earthly body to a trio of S&M demons, the Cenobites, Frank, is brought back into existence by a drop of blood on the floor. He soon forces his former mistress to bring him his necessary human sacrifices to complete his body... but the Cenobites won't be happy about this.
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Oliver Parker, Clare Higgins, Doug Bradley, Niall Buggy, Michael Cassidy, Andrew Robinson, Sean Chapman, Nicholas Vince, Simon Bamford, Ashley Laurence, Oliver Smith, Robert Hines, Anthony Allen, Leon Davis, Frank Baker, Kenneth Nelson, Gay Baynes, Dave Atkins, Grace Kirby, Sharon Bower, Raul Newney, Pamela Sholto
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80
Empire
With Hellraiser, Clive Barker created one of the most genuinely disturbing movies of the last 20 years.
80
Utterly bizarre and entirely ridiculous – and yet effective, an imaginative Guignol festival, like the goriest of soap operas, in which one wrong move opens a portal to hell.
80
A serious, intelligent and disturbing horror film.
80
Pinhead barely appears in Hellraiser, a film that, with its intense and uncomfortable family drama, might have even worked without him. With him, however, it becomes one of the most innovative and memorable horror films of the '80s.
78
This skillfully creepy film tells the story of some housemates who experience unwelcome visits from a partially decomposed former resident who rises from beneath the floorboards. Seems he wants the flesh and blood of the new residents in order to settle some old scores.
