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post #16 of 23
1/27/09 at 6:17pm
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Originally Posted by BrettChaotix View Post
As a huge Clive Barker fan, I'd recommend reading the book the movie was based off of "The Hellbound Heart" - there are significant differences between the movie version of the cenobites and the originals.

Barker's attempt to humanize Pinhead at the end of the second movie was shit. Cenobites are demons without souls, per Barker's own definition. They killed an already-dead demon only to bring him back in movies 3,4 and 6.. now how does that work?

Also, Barker produced an R-rated graphic novel series called Hellraiser in the early 1990s. I have most of them. He invites various artists and writers to create their own cenobite stories using either the characters from the movies or making up their own (the Atkins cenobite, being the most well known) - there are some amazing short-stories and artwork in those books!

I own The Hellbound Heart, and have read some of the other things you've mentioned. I dont mind the differences, really.
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post #17 of 23
1/27/09 at 6:33pm
Giger's Alien has to go down as the best movie monster of all. The design is insane, sexual, psychological and psycho...

Predator is good but you can see they were inspired by Alien. The intergalactic dreadlocks were a very nice touch.

Carpenter's Thing freaked me out as a child. I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

Never liked Hellraiser.

Of the classics, I like Gamera...
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post #18 of 23
1/27/09 at 6:59pm
There was a crap Hellraiser sequel that takes place on a spaceship. The movie was total shit, but the succubus in the beginning was gorgeous and scary at the same time.
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post #19 of 23
1/27/09 at 8:35pm
+1 on Carpenter's The Thing.

The alien slugs in the movie Night Of The Creeps freaked me out when I was little,
and Gremlins was pretty sweet. Swamp Thing was pretty cool for being a guy in a rubber suit. And I just remembered The Wheelers and the Mountain King from Return To Oz. Creepy as hell. Still.
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post #20 of 23
1/27/09 at 8:43pm
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There was a crap Hellraiser sequel that takes place on a spaceship. The movie was total shit, but the succubus in the beginning was gorgeous and scary at the same time.

That was #4, Bloodlines. It's my least favorite but fuck it, I'm a huge hellraiser fan.

Pinhead is a lot shorter in person... here's a photo from maybe 2001/2002 It's me with Doug Bradley (the guy who plays Pinhead) at a horror convention in Baltimore



and this is "Kirsty" from Hellraiser and Hellraiser 2:

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post #21 of 23
1/27/09 at 9:09pm
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Is that a Made in Detroit t i see?

When I was a kid, the mummy (karloff/chaney?) used to creep me out. he was so silent and slow yet always seemed to catch you.

On a funnier note, my friends kid saw rudolph the red nosed reindeer for the first time this xmas and was genuinely afraid of the abominable snowman
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post #22 of 23
1/27/09 at 10:02pm
I have to admit that I've never seen the original but the 1988 remake of The Blob creeped me the fuck out. They didn't have a lot of money but they did a great job with the "holy fuck I'm being melted alive by a blob" sort of vibe in the death scenes. It also creeped me out because it was the first time I had ever seen "the kid" in a horror movie die... horribly.... and I was about the same age at the time
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post #23 of 23
1/27/09 at 10:52pm
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Who can forget this lil guy.
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