Hellraiser details

Hellraiser
Formats: 18 DVD, Blu-ray
Starring: Clare Higgins, Doug Bradley, Andrew Robinson, Sean Chapman, Ashley Laurence
Director: Clive Barker
Genre: Horror - Ghosts/Supernatural
Studio: BOULEVARD ENTERTAINMENT
Collections: 100 Horror Films, Horror, Premium Titles
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Hellraiser
18 Feature

DVD Information

Run time: 1 hour 29 minutes
Rental release: 11 Oct 2010
Main languages: English
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  • Excellent Horror Classic - Still Holds Up Today

    Rated - 5.0 stars  
    By Debs from Scotland , 19 Aug 2005

    [Highly rated reviewer]

    Even though this movie was made 18 YEARS AGO it still rates amongst one of the best even against todays standards. Very gory and is capable of making you cringe at times due to the torture scenes - which adds to the creepy scary feel of the movie. Pinhead is excellent! Hadn't thought about this movie in a while , until another visit to Blackpool Pleasure Beach were I went inside the PASAJE DE TERROR (were real people dress as horror movie characters and chase you around.) This time I came face to face with Pinhead and was absolutely terrified! Inspired me to watch Hellraiser again and enjoy a real horror movie instead of watching the usual drivel that gets churned out of studios these days. DEFINATELY WORTH A WATCH
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  • Get some sleep, what could possibly disturb you...?

    Rated - 5.0 stars  
    By KittyWildmoor (17 reviews) , 07 Oct 2012
    I watched Hellraiser again recently (for probably the fourth time) and it still scared me so much I had to sleep with the light on in case the Cenobites appeared from the gloom of my bedroom....

    Already a horror veteran, I first saw it when it was released in 1987, and it was incredibly disturbing then. I woke up several nights in succession with visions of the Cenobite with his lips cut off chattering his teeth at me!

    In his heyday Clive Barker's novels were also a favourite of mine. Both mind-warpingly inventive, and surprisingly humane. Hellraiser is certainly inventive, although not sure it's humanity is quite there. It's about as dark as it gets.
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  • sick and brilliant

    Rated - 5.0 stars  
    By cheesekake (1283 reviews) from uk , 30 Apr 2012
    the first 3 hellraisers were just brilliant.

    this film is exactly how the book is, totally sick and twisted just as barker would like.

    a must see for horror fans
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  • hellishly bad

    Rated - 1.0 star  
    By nurseboy (54 reviews) from oxford , 10 Apr 2012
    htis was a poor, poor rental. dispite the year in which it was made it is not the effects or make up which make this a waste of your viewing time, in fact those are reasons it gets a single star, but the lack of any substance at all. the gore was well executed but hte story was so lacking in direction, motorvation, and execution i couldnt care less about any of the events in the film a good job really as the are essential threee events.

    1 man opens box, goes to 'hell'

    2 poor actress lures men to kill ,unconvincingly also with little to no motorvation for such

    3 the young girl escapes with her life, barely

    the end couldnt come quickly enough, why this has achieved the status it has is compleatly beyond me even as a gore for gores sake the film is dreafull.
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  • a painfully bad film

    Rated - 0.5 stars  
    By MUFC1984 (3 reviews) from Newry , 18 Mar 2012
    really bad film. terrible acting, storyline is slow and painful.

    i decided that after 20 mins, put the film on fast play. avoid at all cost
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  • Terrible. Terrible

    Rated - 0.5 stars  
    By Me12 (5 reviews) , 09 Mar 2012
    Terrible film. Terrible acting. Just terrible. I need more words in my review.. terrible terrible terrible.

    Again terrible, terrible, terrible.

    Again?!

    TERRIBLE!
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