Rotten
Minor grisly fun, but don't expect the movie to linger when it's over.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Hellraiser
Demon to some. Angel to others.
1987 · 1h 34m · R
Horror, Thriller
Directed by
Clive Barker
Overview
A hedonistic man finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons a group of gruesome beings known as the Cenobites. These otherworldly entities open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible.
Director and cast
- Clive Barker Director
- Andrew Robinson as Larry Cotton
- Clare Higgins as Julia Cotton
- Ashley Laurence as Kirsty Cotton
- Sean Chapman as Frank Cotton
- Oliver Smith as Frank als Untoter
- Robert Hines as Steve
- Anthony Allen as Erstes Opfer
- Doug Bradley as Pinhead the Lead Cenobite
- Leon Davis as Zweites Opfer
- Grace Kirby Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
72%
Tomatometer
Fresh
[Writer/Director Clive] Barker's dazzling debut as a director creates such an atmosphere of dread that the astonishing visual set pieces simply detonate in a chain reaction of cumulative intensity.
Derek Adams, Time Out
Rotten
It's a dark, frequently disturbing and occasionally terrifying film that suggests Barker's vision hasn't quite made the conversion from paper to celluloid.
Richard Harrington, Washington Post
Rotten
This is a movie without wit, style or reason, and the true horror is that actors were made to portray, and technicians to realize, its bankruptcy of imagination.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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