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Some examples are: Red and Mandy live near Crystal Lake (a nod to Friday the 13th ), the biker gang shares many characteristics with the Cenobites of Hellraiser , a chainsaw fight that will remind you of Texas Chainsaw Massacre , the cult feels very reminiscent of the Manson family, and an argument could be made that some of the color schemes in the film are a nod to Dario Argento’s work.
Feeling like that awesome cosmic-horror VHS that you’ve just stumbled across on one of the lower shelves in the horror section, Mandy is akin to legendary fantasy artist Frank Frazetta drinking a litre of LSD, watching The Evil Dead and Hellraiser while listening to Obscured by Clouds by Pink Floyd, then painting an epic cosmic triptych.
A beautiful homage to the perpetually underrated Hellraiser, this death trio is the first to be annihilated in increasingly gruesome and hilarious ways which shall not be spoilt here.
That influence is certainly felt in Mandy: The demonic bike gang summoned to kidnap her recalls that film as well as Weird Science and Hellraiser, and Jeremiah’s “children” call to mind the vampiric family of Near Dark.
In due time, a ghostly gang of spiked, LSD-overdosed mutants from the set of Clive Barker's "Hellraiser" appears, ready to abduct Mandy and deliver her to Jeremiah.
But the pair fall foul of a deranged cult led by Linus Roach’s Manson-like leader, and their allies, a gang of psychotic, LSD-casualty bikers in spiky gimp gear seemingly modelled on Clive Barker’s Hellraiser .
Con la fundamental Hellraiser (Clive Barker, 1987) como modelo, Can Evrenol, su joven director, se apunta a la desesperante narrativa de que las situaciones no se concatenen, de que unas no afecten a las otras, como si hubiera ideas malsanas para ciertas secuencias independientes pero se fuera incapaz de dotar al conjunto de un verdadero crescendo argumental, de una idea central homogénea, y se enmascarara todo con un indigesto onirismo mental.
The caldron of postmodern horror receives another dubious contribution with Baskin, a veritable witch's brew of knowing riffs on recent, extremist trends in European horror and the iconography of American genre staples like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Hellraiser .
There are myriad reference checkpoints for horror fans, spanning everything from “Hellraiser” to Coffin Joe movies, while recurrent scenes back at the diner portend an all-too-familiar final revelation.
It's an infernal nightmare along the lines of Even Horizon and Hellraiser , but with an old school Italian look and feel that combines Lucio Fulci's uncompromising gore with Dario Argento's intense coloring.
The film, which owes a debt to Clive Barker’s Hellraiser , is based on an acclaimed short film by director Can Evrenol; he’s clearly a film-maker with a flair for creating a macabre and unsettling atmosphere.
It references slasher classics such as “The Evil Dead” and “Hellraiser” and plays corny cliches like a fiddle.
The Cabin is, as you'd expect, crammed to the rafters with genre references, among them The Shining, The Evil Dead, Cube, Hellraiser, The Blair Witch Project, the 1950s EC horror comics, Japanese horror (there's a delirious running gag about weird happenings in Kyoto), H P Lovecraft, even Michael Haneke's high-minded chiller-as-treatise Funny Games.
Sly reference is made to The Grudge and Hellraiser, to werewolves and zombies and fishmen and pretty much everything else known to go bump in the night.
The list of horror references in here is mind-boggling, from George Romero’s early work to The Shining , Evil Dead , Hellraiser , J-horror and all manner of others more subtle and obscure.
Along with numerous slashers and the Evil Dead series, there’s “J-Horror”, Hellraiser and gleeful nods to the duo’s previous work, both through casting (peripheral players such as Amy Acker and Tom Lenk are reassuring Whedon / Goddard regulars) and in overarching ideas - Season Four of Buffy the Vampire Slayer springs to mind as an example.
The students pick up what appear to be different horror film artifacts—a dusty diary, a Hellraiser-like puzzle, etc.—and one of those items activates a relatively scary horror scenario involving killer zombies.
Hellraiser seems inspired more by the Italian horror masters Dario Argento ( Suspiria ), Mario Bava ( Black Sunday ), and Lucio Fulci ( The Beyond ) than by any American horror films.
The reason: I sense the movie is more interested in exploiting its players in the same way that the “Hellraiser” films did: by torturing them to no purpose of dramatic enhancement or tension, but just for, you know, the heck of it.
What starts out as The Haunting around Neptune degenerates into Hellraiser in spacesuits.
More of a horror movie than a science fiction movie, Event Horizon is a cross between The Shining and Hellraiser set in deep space.
"Event Horizon" is little more than a cross between "Alien" (everything jumps out at you except the cat) and "Hellraiser" (although it owes something to "Stargate" and a dozen other sci-fi and horror flicks).
Even the deservedly-maligned Pinhead Goes to Space, or whatever the fourth film in the Hellraiser saga is called, shows more chutzpah in its fright pieces and execution.
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
Directed by Alexander Witt
influenced by Hellraiser (1987)
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She's asked to engage in a final showdown with a cast-off from the Hellraiser series called "Nemesis" (obvious to the point of funny), a WWE-sized brute with a nice smile that wields an Israeli helicopter-mounted chain gun with one hand like Jesse Ventura in Predator and moves so slowly that the entire film could have been avoided had Alice done the sensible thing and simply walked in the other direction.
That hulking weapon is Nemesis (imagine the Terminator crossed with one of Clive Barker's "Hellraiser" demons, mega-weapons blazing), and in addition to being a bulletproof monster extraordinaire, he's a tragic link to the first film, best known to gamers as the namesake of "Resident Evil: Nemesis," from which this movie borrows much of its story, characters and imagery.
Visually, Garrone cites Goya , Fellini and Mario Bava as key inspirations, in addition to which I spied traces of the magical realism of Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth , the skin-peeling horror of Clive Barker’s Hellraiser, and the ambiguous monsters of Wes Craven ’s The Hills Have Eyes , with just a touch of the bug-like weirdness of Vincenzo Natali’s Splice .
The film seems to draw homage from the Labyrinth Cenobites reside in from the Hellraiser films.
The workers that support this world are killed in all sorts of gruesome ways that would make the Cenobites in Clive Barker’s “Hellraiser” explode with joy.
On the way is a small hit squad of supernatural psycho-terrorists called The Strangers, inevitably compared to Hellraiser's Pinhead, but more comfortably head-geared in black fedoras.
Moments before the black-clad, beetle-browed Strangers, a Hellraiser-like cabal with names like Mr. Quick and Mr. Hand who are clearly up to no good, show up to deal with him, Murdoch slips away, finds his wallet, and begins to track down what might be his past.
"Dark City" looks like bits and pieces of "Blade Runner," "Batman," "Hellraiser," "Phantasm," "Brazil," and director Alex Proyas's own previous film, "The Crow," with the added glumness of "Dune" thrown in for good measure.
It doesn’t hurt that the latest film from David Bruckner ( The Ritual and the forthcoming Hulu remake of Hellraiser ) has a masterful handle on the material.
Interestingly, the writers and director are currently in production of a reboot of Hellraiser, and while many wish they wouldn’t, with the right script and cast, these folks may be the one to pull it off — with Clive Barker’s blessing, of course.
Later, when Beth finds evidence that Owen was dabbling in the occult, bringing to mind the obsessed antiheroes of Clive Barker (not for nothing is Bruckner slated to helm the upcoming Hellraiser reboot).
Bruckner is an avid genre addict, having debuted with the Nordic noir The Ritual at Toronto’s Midnight Madness sidebar in 2017 and now conjuring a remake of Hellraiser .
Bruckner -- who directed a segment of the horror cheapie "V/H/S" and who will give us the "Hellraiser" reboot in 2022 -- has crafted an absorbing, atmospheric thriller, but his executive producer/star Hall proves to be his greatest asset.
As with masterworks such as The Exorcist and Hellraiser , the key to a successful scary movie is the appropriation of another concept (the generation gap, adultery) as the means of adding depth to your dread.
Hellraiser seems inspired more by the Italian horror masters Dario Argento ( Suspiria ), Mario Bava ( Black Sunday ), and Lucio Fulci ( The Beyond ) than by any American horror films.
Hellraiser seems inspired more by the Italian horror masters Dario Argento ( Suspiria ), Mario Bava ( Black Sunday ), and Lucio Fulci ( The Beyond ) than by any American horror films.
An inescapable itchiness starts to creep into virtually every scene around the second act, a restless sensation that cannot be alleviated by gnarly nods to genre classics like My Bloody Valentine (1981), The Thing (1982), and Hellraiser (1987).
Lussier and Farmer’s next project is a remake/reimagining of Clive Barker’s “Hellraiser,” which was initially rumored to be targeting a PG-13 but is now expected to be as R-rated as anything the filmmakers have done so far.
It’s too bad the rest of the movie shows no interest in rising to his level; instead, it contents itself with more cop-car pile-ups than a Blues Brothers sequel, more oafish southern-boy buffoonery than a Smokey and the Bandit reunion and more gleefully gratuitous depravity than a Hellraiser-Saw-Elm Street mash-up.
Sutherland's Ellie delivers some of the most chilling lines since 1987's Hellraiser , like her terrifying insistence that "Mommy is with the maggots now" from the trailer.
Lee Cronin uses just about every imaginable tool in his box, including but not limited to: Hellraiser -style orchestral score, a “POV” of the demonic entity, a modern day equivalent to the original’s vine-rape, and the greatest bloody elevator sequence since The Shining .
The other? A climactic moment that’s basically the finale of Clive Barker’s Hellraiser but with pizza mascots.
Startling violence erupts too, although the most arresting image sees a spectre rising from a pool of blood, like the partially formed Frank from Clive Barker’s Hellraiser .
As near as I can determine, this whole "new face of horror" started in 1987 when Stephen King raved about Clive Barker's Hellraiser.
Obsession is a movie which plays like a love letter to classic 80s-90s horror, such as The Evil Dead series, Creepshow, Tales From The Crypt, Re-Animator, almost every John Carpenter movie ever shot, Hellraiser, and Candyman…