| Product Summary | | Publisher: STARZ/SPHE | | Format: DVD | | UPC: 00013131586398 | | Buy.com Sku: 210681229 | | Item#: V2UKT7 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 6812 | Rating:  |
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"This is terror...Clive Barker's horror circus is one nightmare vision after another." --HorrorDVDs.comClive Barker invites you to enter the nightmare realm of angels, demons, pleasure and pain that changed the face of horror forever. The infernal journey begins with the acclaimed 20th Anniversary Editions of both Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II that unleash the Cenobites and rip bare every hunger of the flesh. Then summon Hell -- and Pinhead -- like you've never experienced before with the all-new Hellraiser Blu-ray. Every slice of legendary suffering is contained within, now packed with featurettes, commentaries, galleries and more that will tear your soul apart. We have such sights to show you. Do you dare open the puzzle box?
"[Hellraiser] An imaginative, frightening debut from Clive Barker. A landmark horror film." Blake Davis, KFOR Channel 4 News
"[Hellbound] Stunning, relentless and scary...possibly the most striking and unnervingly original depiction of hell ever seen on screen!" Classic-Horror.com
"[Hellraiser] Full of both weighty philosophical concepts and fun, over the top gore, it's got something guaranteed to please almost any genre fan." Mike Bracken, Mike Bracken's Horror Films
"[Hellraiser] I have seen the future of horror and his name is Clive Barker." Stephen King
"[Hellbound] There are enough bizarre and shocking effects here to satisfy all but the most demanding genre fans." The Washington Post
"[Hellbound] ...a gruesome, gory, and super cool horror film that's well worth checking out." ToxicUniverse.com
| Features | [All] Interactive Menus | | [All] Scene Selection | | [Hellbound] Outside The Box: Interview With Director Tony Randel About His Early Career & How Hellbound Shaped His Creative Future | | [Hellbound] The Doctor Is In: Interview With Actor Kenneth Cranham On His Experiences Playing The Villainous Dr. Channard | | [Hellbound] The Soul Patrol: Interviews With Cenobite Performers Simon Bamford, Nicholas Vince, & Barbie Wilde | | [Hellbound] Audio Commentary With Director Tony Randel, Writer Peter Atkins, & Actor Ashley Laurence | | [Hellbound] Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | [Hellbound] Featurettes: Under The Skin - Doug Bradley On Hellbound: Hellraiser II, & Lost In The Labyrinth, Produced By Clive Barker | | [Hellbound] On-Set Interview With Clive Barker & Cast & Crew | | [Hellbound] Photo Galleries | | [Hellbound] Subtitles: English | | [Hellbound] Theatrical Trailers | | [Hellbound] TV Spots | | [Hellraiser Blu-Ray] This Is A Blu-Ray DVD Made For Blue-Laser Format Players Which Produce Higher Quality Picture & Sound | | [Hellraiser DVD] Actress From Hell: An Interview With Star Ashley Laurence | | [Hellraiser DVD] Hellcomposer: An Interview With Composer Christopher Young | | [Hellraiser DVD] Mr. Cotton, I Presume?: An Interview With Star Andrew Robinson | | [Hellraiser DVD] Audio Commentary With Writer/Director Clive Barker & Ashley Laurence, Moderated By Screenwriter Peter Atkins | | [Hellraiser DVD] Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, Dolby Digital Stereo | | [Hellraiser DVD] DVD-ROM Feature: First Draft Screenplay | | [Hellraiser DVD] Featurettes: Hellraiser - Resurrection, & Under The Skin - Doug Bradley On Hellraiser | | [Hellraiser DVD] Photo Galleries | | [Hellraiser DVD] Storyboard Gallery | | [Hellraiser DVD] Theatrical Trailers | | [Hellraiser DVD] TV Spots |
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Release Information
| | Studio: STARZ/SPHE |
| Release Date: 4/21/2009 |
| Catalog ID: 15863 | | UPC: 00013131586398 | | Number of Discs: 3 |
Audio & Video
| | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen/Widescreen 1.85:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Reel.com 9 of 10
[Hellraiser] Far from the tongue-in-cheek shocks of Scream and its brethren lies Clive Barker's Hellraiser. Barker's first feature-length film, which subsequently spawned a series of middling-to-awful sequels, is gory, suspenseful, quite well-acted, and very imaginative...Hellraiser was one of the first movies to explore sadomasochism within a horror context. Other films that have tried something similar (like the god-awful StrangeLand) have failed miserably because they present S&M as a freakshow, but Barker wisely presents the world with an unabashed eroticism...There's a lot of plot to get through in Hellraiser, and though the director frets in his commentary about how much explication there is, his film is never dull. The shocking opening shows us a bad boy named Frank (Sean Chapman) purchasing an ancient puzzle box that contains terrible and unmentionable torments. After he unleashes the demons contained therein, who flay his flesh spectacularly, the film then takes a sunnier turn, and shows a handsome family moving into their new home. There's a not-so-happy married couple named Larry (Andrew Robinson) and Julia (the wonderful Clare Higgins) Cotton, and a pretty lass named Kirsty (Ashley Laurence), Larry's feisty daughter from a previous marriage...Hellraiser offers more than the usual thrills and chills with its cast of three-dimensional characters and a perverse subtext that could keep semioticians busy for days. Though the sequels focus more on the Cenobites, the original is a far more interesting film because of the way it grapples with the dark sides of human sexuality. Like David Cronenberg or David Lynch, Clive Barker has a greater interest in worming under your skin than in making you jump out of your seat, and this quality is one of the main reasons why his first feature is a modern horror classic. - Rod Armstrong
Apollo Movie Guide 7 of 10
[Hellbound] While most horror sequels are dismissed as money-grubbing junk piles, once in a while, one comes along in which there obviously has been some real effort applied. When a filmmaker is handed the reins to an already popular movie series, it might seem all too easy to just coast on "auto-pilot" and simply try to fill the screen with as much gore as possible. Fortunately, this is not the case in 1988's Hellbound: Hellraiser 2. Although it's certainly not the modern classic that the original has become, this sequel earns a lot of points for simply not doing the same old thing...[The] Hellraiser flicks generally deal with two components: a creepy puzzle box called the Lament Configuration and an undead ghoul named Pinhead. Pinhead usually has a group of disturbing and deformed compatriots (called Cenobites) at his side, and much of the horror in these movies deals with human skin being pierced by metal hooks. Sound like fun to you? Then feel free to give Hellbound a shot...Picking up immediately where the first Hellraiser leaves off, this movie centres around Kirsty, a young woman who dealt with a whole lot of gruesome stuff in the first flick. Since she's been found covered in blood, screaming about undead zombies from hell and haunted mattresses, Kirsty is promptly plunked into a loony bin. There she meets a mute young lady named Tiffany who has an affinity for solving puzzles, and two psychiatrists: one young and nice, the other old and evil. Through a truly gruesome series of escapades, Kirsty and Tiffany find themselves lost in the catacombs of Hell, while trying to escape from a collection of villains -- some human, most of them not...Director Tony Randel (Fist of the North Star, Ticks) keeps the movie going at a rapid pace, stopping every ten minutes to present some wet, icky violence. When the two heroines eventually journey into Hell itself, Randel also shows a deft hand in presenting some truly disturbing sequences. - Scott Weinberg
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