Hellraiser

Titolo originale: Hellraiser
Regia: Clive Barker |
Anno: 1987
Origine: United Kingdom | United States of America |
Generi: Horror Thriller Fantasy
Tag: based on novel or book | sexual obsession | pain | ritual | supernatural | haunted house | seduction | gore | surrealism | undead | stepmother | revenge | human sacrifice | body double | demon | puzzle box | attic | occult | bdsm | cenobite | sexual awakening | return from dead | reanimated corpse | sexual pleasure | hiding in attic | psycho-sexual | body snatcher | lovecraftian | horrified | wicked uncle | sexual adventure |
Cast: Clare Higgins | Ashley Laurence | Sean Chapman | Oliver Smith | Andrew Robinson | Robert Hines | Doug Bradley | Grace Kirby | Nicholas Vince | Simon Bamford | Anthony Allen | Leon Davis | Michael Cassidy | Frank Baker | Kenneth Nelson | Gay Baynes | Niall Buggy | Dave Atkins | Oliver Parker | Sharon Bower | Raul Newney | Pamela Sholto |

Dopo innumerevoli sforzi per risolvere il puzzle della Lament Configuration, un uomo scopre che quanto ottiene in cambio è ben diverso da quanto lui si aspettava. L'enigma, una volta risolto, si rivela una porta sull'Inferno. La sue ex amante trova un modo per riportarlo indietro e sottrarlo alle torture dei Supplizianti, angeli per alcuni, demoni per altri...

Approfondimenti

The concept of a cube being used as a portal to hell has its basis in the urban legend of The Devil' [...] D
During production, Doug Bradley had trouble hitting his marks during his takes in makeup as he could [...] D
For the video release, the film had one of the most unusual pieces of bonus material that has ever b [...] D
The term cenobite is a word meaning "a member of a communal religious order"; The Hellbound Heart sp [...] D
Doug Bradley revealed in an interview that he asked Clive Barker how he should play Pinhead. Barker [...] D
Because of his eventual skill at application and removal of the Pinhead appliances and costume, Doug [...] D
Bob Keen designed the special makeup effects for Hellraiser. While only in his mid-twenties, Keen ha [...] D
Industrial band Coil originally did the soundtrack. Clive Barker was a fan of the finished product, [...] D
The shot of Larry's blood seeping unnaturally through the floor was a simple reverse shot of a red f [...] D
Clive Barker originally wanted the electronic music group Coil to perform the music for the film, bu [...] D
The Chatterer and Butterball Cenobites had dialogue in the original script. However, when their make [...] D
Simon Bamford (Butterball) met Clive Barker through a friend who was doing prop work for Barker's pl [...] D
Clive Barker spoke about filming fondly in the Hellraiser Chronicles, stating that his memories on p [...] D
Website Mr. Skin posted the top 10 horror series with the most female nude scenes on Oct. 2020. List [...] D
Paul Kane author of The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy, describes the Female Cenobite's throat wo [...] D
The budget of this movie was $1,000,000. It earned about $20,000,000. It was the directing debut of [...] D
When Clive Barker first showed the film to his mother, she cried tears of joy upon seeing her son's [...] D
Character actor Lance Henriksen was offered the role of Frank by New World Pictures. But he turned i [...] D
Clive Barker drew inspiration for the cenobite designs from Punk fashion, Catholicism and by the vis [...] D
According to Geoff Portass in the impressively long making-of documentary Leviathan: The Story of He [...] D
(at around 1h 8 mins) Although Butterball says no more than a few hissing noises he was originally g [...] D
Principal photography took place at the end of 1986 and was set to be made in 7 weeks, but was exten [...] D
Sean Chapman's entire dialogue was dubbed by another actor. D
Dread Central named the Female Cenobite as one of their Favorite Sexy Badass Female Horror Character [...] D
(at around 1h 22 mins) Andrew Robinson convinced Clive Barker to replace the scripted line, "Fuck yo [...] D
Based on the novella "The Hellbound Heart" by Clive Barker. D
One of the film's taglines, "He'll tear your soul apart" on the original poster may be a reference t [...] D
Shock Till You Drop ranked Butterball number seven in their list of the ten best Cenobites, calling [...] D
New World Productions originally considered overdubbing Doug Bradley's voice with that of an America [...] D
(at around 47 mins) The scene where Frank is being spun around upside-down covered in blood was a ca [...] D
The homeless man of the movie who sometimes meets Kirsty was played by Frank Baker, credited as "Der [...] D
Nicholas Vince lived near Clive Barker, who liked his work. Barker suggested they work together, res [...] D
The film was originally set in England (hence the obvious London locations), but the studio, New Wor [...] D
The false floor allowed for the establishing downward pan revealing the pulsing heart-like mass. Thi [...] D
The film was originally supposed to be called "The Hellbound Heart," after the novella upon which it [...] D
When he read the script for the first time Doug Bradley stated that he saw Pinhead as a cross betwee [...] D
Special effects of the unnamed creature, known as the "Engineer" in the novel, prove difficult as th [...] D
In the script for the original film, Clive Barker describes Pinhead and the other cenobites as "demo [...] D
Film debut of Ashley Laurence. D
Doug Bradley's character was named "Priest" in the earliest drafts of the script and ultimately beca [...] D
According to Clive Barker, as the writing of the Hellraiser script took place during the height of t [...] D
When Doug Bradley first donned the Pinhead makeup, he spent a few minutes alone in his room getting [...] D
The studio had planned on casting stunt men as the Cenobites to save on production costs. Director C [...] D
Lament Configuration (infamous six-sided box) was conceived and designed by Simon Sayce. D
Doug Bradley was originally offered a choice of roles between one of the mattress movers and the Lea [...] D
It took six hours to apply the prosthetic Cenobite makeup on Doug Bradley. D
Clive Barker portrayed the Cenobites as the prison guards who recapture the evil escape souls and se [...] D
Clive Barker adapted his own novel "The Hellbound Heart" to film, and in doing so, made some changes [...] D
The Female Cenobite was inspired by scarification and body-piercing in National Geographic articles. [...] D
The flesh exposed on Pinhead chest was redesigned as a rhombus in honor of Pinhead's Master, the fic [...] D
After securing funding for a motion picture adaptation in early 1986, Clive Barker and his producer [...] D
The name "Pinhead" was coined by the makeup crew that applied the prosthetics on Doug Bradley to dis [...] D
Jennifer Tilly reportedly auditioned for the role of Kirsty. D
The last line of Dimmu Borgir's 2001 song "Hybrid Stigmata- The Apostasy" is "Demon to some, angel t [...] D
initial reviews ranged from Melody Maker calling it the greatest horror film made in Britain, to Rog [...] D
For a long time, this movie was one of the few successful horror series-starters to escape the remak [...] D
Many viewers have commented about the poor quality of the FX at the end of the movie. Clive Barker h [...] D
After being disappointed with the way his material had been treated by producers in Underworld (1985 [...] D
In the original novel that Hellraiser was based on, Butterball was the leader of the Cenobites and m [...] D
Other issues included a rushed shoot of the Chinese restaurant scene with Kirsty (Ashley Laurence) a [...] D
(at around 4 mins) Originally, the opening sequence featured the Butterball cenobite reassembling Fr [...] D
The earliest incarnation of Pinhead appeared in Hunters in the Snow, an original 1973 play with Doug [...] D
In The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters, David McWilliam writes that the Ceno [...] D
According to the crew, the backbone of special effects was, in fact, lube and condoms. Which, given [...] D
In his DVD commentary, Clive Barker explained that filming the movie in an actual house forced him t [...] D
During an interview Doug Bradley described hell as a prison; the Cenobites are the prison guards, Pi [...] D
Clive Barker had to make some cuts on the film after MPAA gave it an X rating: Two and a half shots [...] D
At the time of the movie's release the MPAA had an agenda on "intensity of tone". As a result of thi [...] D
Having been dismayed at prior cinematic adaptations of his work, Clive Barker decided to attempt to [...] D
At the wrap party, Doug Bradley was almost refused entry because nobody recognized him without the P [...] D
During rehearsals, Clive Barker told Doug Bradley, who at the time was more used to working in theat [...] D
After securing funding in early 1986, Clive Barker and his producer Christopher Figg assembled a tea [...] D
Over the years, the film was released numerous times on DVD in Germany. However, all of these releas [...] D
Clare Higgins hates horror movies. When she saw this movie for the first time at the premiere, she h [...] D

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Despite having been revealed to be Frank wearing Larry's skin, Frank continues to use Larry's voice, [...] D
(at around 1h 19 mins) When Kirsty is at the top of the stairs hiding from Frank, a shadow of the bo [...] D
(at around 23 mins) One of the characters at Julia and Larry's housewarming party (Bill) fluctuates [...] D
(at around 47 mins) When Frank holds up the puzzle box for Julia to see, the visible side changes in [...] D
(at around 1h 3 mins) When Kirsty opens the box while in the hospital, the walls begin to part and y [...] D
(at around 55 mins) Julia's third victim has a (dubbed) American accent when he enters the house. Wh [...] D
When seen from inside, the attic has a single window made from four separate panels of glass. Howeve [...] D
(at around 1h 11 mins) If Frank is wearing Larry's skin, how is he able to sound like him? D
(at around 1h 23 mins) As the female Cenobite scrapes a hook along the wall of the stairwell, its po [...] D
(at around 1h 6 mins) When Kirsty is trying to get out of the hospital room she says the door is loc [...] D
(at around 41 mins) The amount of blood on Julia from inside the attic to the hallway to the bathroo [...] D
(at around 1h 1 min) When Kirsty first wakes up in the hospital bed, the tray-table in front of her [...] D
(at around 2 mins) The number of cups on the table during the opening scene (where Frank buys the bo [...] D
(at around 1h 24 mins) At the end Kirsty sends the female Cenobite back to hell by pushing the box d [...] D
(at around 1h) Nuns would not just walk past a woman with blood on her shirt looking like she's just [...] D
At 27:18, an Intercity 125 train with a British Rail logo passes, contradicting the film's American [...] D
(at around 12 mins) At the start of the film when Kirsty is walking towards the house you can see he [...] D
(at around 2 mins) At the start of the film where Frank is buying the box, when the camera is zoomed [...] D
(at around 58 mins) When Kirsty discovers Frank he delivers his catch phrase "Come to Daddy." Later, [...] D
(at around 41 mins) Throughout most of the film, Larry has a bandage on his right hand. When he talk [...] D
(at around 1h 5 mins) When The Monster in the tunnel chases Kirsty back towards the hospital room, y [...] D
(at around 3 mins) When Frank first opens the puzzle box in the beginning of the film, the inner sid [...] D
(at around 5 mins) When Pinhead pieces together the remains of Frank's face, the eyes are seen attac [...] D
(at around 1h 4 mins) When the Engineer chases Kirsty, the trolley and crew pushing it are visible. D
(at around 3 mins) After Frank opens the box, the camera cuts to a wide shot which shows the box in [...] D
When Frank puts his bloody hand on Julia's white blouse it leaves no mark. Similarly, when Kirsty fi [...] D
(at around 1h 18 mins) When Kirsty bumps into the corpse and the maggots fall out,that would suggest [...] D

Frase

[Frank, wearing Larry's skin, tells Kirsty that Fr [...] D
[Julia and Larry arrive outside the family homeste [...] D
Lead Cenobite: [to Kirsty] This isn't for your eye [...] D
[Julia agrees to help the skinless Frank] Julia: [...] D
[Julia leads her 3rd victim through her home] 3rd [...] D
[the skinless Frank suggests to Julia that they mu [...] D
[last lines] Asian Merchant: [the Asian Merchant [...] D
[in a flashback, Julia and Frank finish having sex [...] D
[in a flashback, Julia sees her first kiss with Fr [...] D
[Kirsty meets the Cenobites for the first time] L [...] D
[Larry tells Kirsty that something's wrong with Ju [...] D
[the female Cenobite follows Kirsty up the stairs] [...] D
[Kirsty looks upon Pinhead standing in the shadows [...] D
[the Doctor shows Kirsty the puzzle box] Doctor: [...] D
[Kirsty tells Steve why she doesn't like Julia] K [...] D
[Kirsty realizes that Frank is wearing her father' [...] D
[Kirsty kneels down over her father's skinned body [...] D
[Kirsty calls her father Larry] Larry: Who is thi [...] D
[Frank shows Julia his body becoming more whole ag [...] D
Frank (wearing Larry's skin): Where are you, beaut [...] D
[Frank asks to touch Julia with his skinless body] [...] D
[the Asian Merchant sells Frank the puzzle box] A [...] D
[Julia comes out of the kitchen from cleaning] La [...] D
Kirsty Cotton: Wait! Wait! Please, please wait! L [...] D
[Kirsty finds a completely silent Julia on the sta [...] D
[in a flashback, Julia relives the first time she [...] D
[the skinless Frank smokes a cigarette] Frank the [...] D
[Julia agrees to help the undeveloped Frank] Fran [...] D
[Julia shows Larry her distaste to move into the o [...] D
Steve: So why didn't you stay at Larry's house? Th [...] D
[Frank sees Kristy while constrained in chains] F [...] D
Moving Man 2: That your daughter? Larry: Uh-huh. [...] D
[Frank's dinner guest asks if his hand still hurts [...] D
[the Cenobites stand over the dead body of Larry] [...] D
[in a flashback, we see Frank open the box and be [...] D
[Julia walks her 1st victim into the empty attic] [...] D
[Larry goes up to Julia to stop his hand from blee [...] D
[Kirsty shows up at the homestead when the moving [...] D
[Julia seduces her 2nd victim back into her home] [...] D
[Julia murders her 1st victim] 1st Victim: [at th [...] D
[Julia finds Frank's abandoned bed in one of the h [...] D
[Kirsty sees the homeless man staring at her from [...] D
[Larry tells Kirsty to be gentle with Julia during [...] D
1st Victim: It's alright, just got to empty the ol [...] D
Frank the Monster: I'm hurting. Julia: Hurting? [...] D
[Julia and the skinless Frank discuss what to do w [...] D
[Kirsty sees the homeless man grab a handful of cr [...] D
Julia: What do you want me to do? Frank the Monst [...] D
[Julia finds a puddle of liquid maggots being eate [...] D
[Larry arrives home to find Julia in the bathroom [...] D
[Julia's 1st victim undresses while looking at her [...] D
Lead Cenobite: I want to hear him confess, himself [...] D
[Steve pours Kirsty a glass of wine] Kirsty Cotto [...] D
[Frank stabs Julia to death] Frank (wearing Larry [...] D
[Julia keeps Larry obedient to help the skinless F [...] D
[the phone rings downstairs in the homestead] Lar [...] D
[Julia and Larry enter the old homestead] Larry: [...] D
[Kirsty opens the puzzle box to send the Cenobites [...] D
Frank the Monster: [as Kirsty picks up the puzzle [...] D
[Julia's 3rd victim enters the attic] 3rd Victim: [...] D
[Julia tries to stop Larry from investigating the [...] D
[Larry tells his dinner guests about the hospital [...] D
[the skinless Frank shows Julia the box] Frank th [...] D
[Kirsty begs for the Cenobites to leave her alone] [...] D
Frank the Monster: They won't get me back. I'm goi [...] D
[the skinless Frank assaults Kirsty in the attic] [...] D
[in a flashback, Julia relives the first time she [...] D
[Kirsty sees the size of the old homestead] Kirst [...] D
Kirsty Cotton: [as Kirsty struggles with the Chatt [...] D
[Frank sees the light of the Cenobites enter throu [...] D
[Julia takes her 1st victim into her home] 1st Vi [...] D
[Julia agrees to move in the old homestead] Larry [...] D
[Pinhead appears from the shadows behind Kirsty] [...] D
Julia: [Julia sees the skinless Frank come out of [...] D
[the Cenobites find Frank in the attic] Lead Ceno [...] D
[Julia has a drink by herself to pick up a man] 1 [...] D
[Julia leads her 1st victim into her home] 1st Vi [...] D
[first lines] Asian Merchant: [the Asian Merchant [...] D
[Julia and Larry enter one of the old bedrooms of [...] D
[the moving man asks Julia for a beer] Moving Man [...] D
[Larry and Julia watch an aggressive boxing match] [...] D
Kirsty Cotton: [Kirsty, in tears] Who are you? Le [...] D
[Julia finds the undeveloped Frank in the attic] [...] D
[Frank looks to Kirsty with half of Larry's face s [...] D
[Kirsty finds the skinless Frank in the attic] Fr [...] D

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