![]() ![]() ![]() Being the despicable person that she is, Rizzo agrees. So he’s like, I need blood to come back to life, then we’ll ditch my loser brother and haul ass to Lollapalooza. Well wouldn’t you know, blood is just what people whose souls have been ripped apart need to come back to life!įrank’s a gooey mess at this point and the practical effects that went into his construction are appropriately disgusting. There, she finds that Frank (presumed missing) has been there all along: when moving in earlier, her husband cut his hand and spilled some blood on the attic floor. So while their yuppie friends stop by for a housewarming party but she has a fucking problem (of course) and goes upstairs to pout. In other words, she’s the kind of awful person who deserves the horror that they bring upon themselves. She has cheated on her husband with his gross brother, has a major attitude (*salutes*) when it comes to everything-from the move to her husband to her step-daughter to their friends, etc.-and comes across as dour and angry. Of course, Rizzo’s the evil stepmother character and their relationship is Frosty the Snowman, at best.Ī little bit about making a satisfying horror protagonist/victim: British Rizzo is a thoroughly unlikable character. His name is Frank.) had something going on behind Mylanta’s back.Īnywhoo, Mylanta can’t handle the moving men because he’s a chump among goons, and his daughter is also a character in this movie. ![]() This is where we start getting the idea that Rizzo and the brother (Frank. Rizzo goes up to the most disgusting bedroom on Earth and starts rifling through some crude homemade pornography Mylanta’s brother left behind. After surveying a few rooms, they find that the place is a mess (there are maggots all over the kitchen, you you see) and it seems like nobody’s lived there for a while. It’s this guy’s inherited house, and he thinks his brother may still live there. With the room looking like a rejected set from Aliens with hanging chains and viscera scattered all over, a dark figure walks over, restores the box to its original order, and instantly cleans up the joint.ĬUT TO: this same house, now with a couple (British Rizzo and Mylanta Commercial Star) doing their first walkthrough of the property. Moments later, he’s back at home, having solved the puzzle box with the reward being ripped apart by hooks on chains. So we open the film on a freaky-deaky dude who’s in it for the kicks buying a sharp-looking puzzle box in Morocco from the guy who sold the gremlin in Gremlins. Pictured: Me preparing for another viewing of Hellraiser.īut why? I posit that it’s a very adult horror film, which centers around a thoroughly terrible person as the central figure and whose plot is spurred on by infidelity there’s pretty much no redemption at the end for anybody, save for the one young innocent in the film, and the cosmic horror that intrudes upon these people and their tawdry affairs drops the hammer so hard on their reality that it destroys any semblance of normalcy once it’s introduced. Unlike most of the films I’ve been writing about this month, I’ve seen Hellraiser (and the following films in the series) plenty of times before. I’ve already watched a Clive Barker-inspired movie during this series of reviews and have mentioned my appreciation for the (in my opinion) horror masterpiece In the Mouth of Madness, so I’m treading on familiar ground in this review. I like that Pinhead’s blasé about his work I like that the cenobites are humanoid monsters whose impossible physicality crosses the threshold of uncanny into wildly disturbing I like that it’s always a no-win proposition in getting involved with the puzzle box, making it a clean plot device and I just like Clive Barker’s ability to bring the most fantastical, weird, and high-concept ideas for films to life. I’m a fan of the Hellraiser franchise for this and other fairly odd reasons. In fact, they don’t even want to be there today, but some monsters called out sick and their boss is riding their ass to get their soul quotas up this month. ![]() They can’t be reasoned or bargained with they can’t be coerced or bought off hell, they can barely be understood as beings. Unlike most monstrous antagonists in horror films, the suffering and pain a character endures when in their hands is a somewhat impersonal affair you were dumb enough to call upon them, and now they have to go through the effort of obliterating you before they can head home for the day. Almost like they’re bored with the idea of having to rip your soul apart, an unwanted detour on their path to the next extreme S&M party they’re hosting. There’s something very disturbing about the monsters of Hellraiser, and it’s not just their looks (although that aspect of them is terrifying). ![]()
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