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Elevated by writer-director Clive Barker's fiendishly unique vision, Hellraiser offers a disquieting - and sadistically smart - alternative to mindless gore.
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All Critics (46) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (33) | Rotten (13)
Utterly bizarre and entirely ridiculous - and yet effective, an imaginative guignol festival, like the goriest of soap operas, in which one wrong move opens a portal to hell. October 11, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Utterly bizarre and entirely ridiculous - and yet effective, an imaginative guignol festival, like the goriest of soap operas, in which one wrong move opens a portal to hell.
Peter Bradshaw
Minor grisly fun, but don't expect the movie to linger when it's over. January 11, 2008 | Full Review…
Minor grisly fun, but don't expect the movie to linger when it's over.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
[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. February 9, 2006 | Full Review…
[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
[A] skillfully creepy film. March 10, 2003 | Full Review…
[A] skillfully creepy film.
Marjorie Baumgarten
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. January 1, 2000 | Full Review…
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
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. January 1, 2000 | Rating: 0.5/4 | Full Review…
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
One of the most original and unequaled horror films of the decade. September 6, 2020 | Rating: 9/10 | Full Review…
One of the most original and unequaled horror films of the decade.
Mike Massie
More than with terror, the movie plays with revulsion. And that is its (relative) novelty. [Full Review in Spanish] June 25, 2020 | Full Review…
More than with terror, the movie plays with revulsion. And that is its (relative) novelty. [Full Review in Spanish]
Ángel Fernández-Santos
The reason the movie works as well as it does is because of its human characters. October 14, 2019 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
The reason the movie works as well as it does is because of its human characters.
Chris Stuckmann
Arriving in a decade in which most movie monsters were monotonous slashers, the Cenobites were truly exciting, original, and unsettling characters. October 13, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Arriving in a decade in which most movie monsters were monotonous slashers, the Cenobites were truly exciting, original, and unsettling characters.
Matt Brunson
Part of the film's excellence comes out of its taboo-ness, depicting everything from abusive love to the sometimes dangerous links between sex and death, pain and pleasure. May 1, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Part of the film's excellence comes out of its taboo-ness, depicting everything from abusive love to the sometimes dangerous links between sex and death, pain and pleasure.
C.H. Newell
Rightly considered a horror classic for pushing boundaries around sex and horror, Hellraiser is a flawed film with forgettable characters and gaping plot holes in the second act. November 25, 2018 | Full Review…
Rightly considered a horror classic for pushing boundaries around sex and horror, Hellraiser is a flawed film with forgettable characters and gaping plot holes in the second act.
Chauncey K. Robinson
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