Hellraiser

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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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