

This particular story has a twist ending that speaks volumes about Jenna's struggle with her own demons and the grief she hides from viewers for much of the segment. It is soon revealed that the two proprietors are performing some incredibly unethical administrations on the guests, and Jenna is spared this fate by an unexpected savior who confirms that her paranoia was warranted. Her refusal to take her medication and her onset paranoia find her fleeing her home and seeking solace in a bed & breakfast owned by an older couple. The "Jenna" storyline concerns the titular character, a college student struggling with mental illness. Regardless of how the sequels have panned out and how the remakes will fare, the original Hellraiser film is still worth a watch for the gratuitous scenes of violence and the mysterious air that the Cenobites bring in their time on-screen. Many of Hellraiser's sequels were commercial and critical failures, but incoming TV and film remakes hope to turn the tide of the franchise's reputation.

The original Hellraiser is much more than a simple horror movie, as it inspects elements such as the "lusty/wicked woman" archetype, religion, women's agency, the pleasure-pain dynamic, greed, ambition, hedonism, and sexuality as the " connective tissue" in the battle between good and evil. Pinhead was even recently featured in the horror video game Dead By Daylight as a playable killer.

This character would prove enduringly popular and would become the face of a franchise spanning nine more movies as well as spinning off into comic books and novels. The most vocal of these three creatures is known as The Hell Priest according to Barker and Pinhead ( Doug Bradley) according to most fans as well as the film's production crew. See our wiki for past AMAs.Pursuing Frank are the mysterious and masochistic Cenobites. If you would like to mask a potential spoiler, use the following format: (/spoiler)Īll times in ET (EST/EDT) unless otherwise noted. Spoiler tags are left to user discretion. Some rule violations may result in a temporary or permanent ban on the first strike. We do ask that you help us keep a high level of discourse by avoiding image-only posts, blog spam, surveys, plugging your own unpublished or self-published fiction, and linking to fundraisers or items for sale. No book is off-limits since horror is subjective. Here is your place to share your love or loathing for horror lit, but remember to be respectful.Ībusive comments and posts will get you banned but having a dissenting opinion is acceptable.
