During an interview Doug Bradley described hell as a prison; the Cenobites are the prison guards, Pinhead is the prison warden, the puzzle box is the key to the prison cell, and the demons are the escaped inmates.
Interesting, but it doesn't seem right. I can see the prison part, but the box is more like a trap for the "fallen" shall we say, and the Cenobites are the Marshals who go collect whoever solves a box.
You guys absolutely nailed it; just like Jason is the icon but his mom is the original villain, Pinhead is the icon but Julia (and Frank) were the original villains.
Pinhead didn't even have his iconic name in this movie, that came later! The cenobites were not really the typical evil villains either. As they said, they are demons to some, angels to others - they are *absolute* masters of sensations, mixing all the good and all the bad in this extreme experience... But their purpose clearly changed as sequels kept getting made and Pinhead became popular.
For next years spooky season poll can you please put Hellraiser 2 "Hellbound" on a poll. It is a really great sequel, which was filmed straight after the first movie and continues on the story just where the first movie left off so the continuity is seamless and i think you will really enjoy it. Hellraiser 3 is a bit of a drop off and vastly different so i would recommend part 2 for sure
Ok, but why wait an entire year to react to it? They don't only do horror movie reactions during October, they just do them more frequently. However, they should do 'Hellbound' in the not too distant future. I would even say doing 'Hell on Earth' wouldn't be THAT bad of an idea. I personally also don't mind the 4th one, but I know a lot of people already somewhat don't care for the 3rd, so if they do anything past 'Hellbound', then I'd assume people would prefer they only go until 'Hell on Earth'
Clive Barker was promoted as the next big thing in horror back in the mid 80's. His Books of Blood were great reads, and there were several films made from several stories, to varying degrees of success. Rawhead Rex is a European folk horror story. Nightbreed would be another film to check out, or Lord Of Illusion. Hellraiser II explores more of this other world.
Daniel Von Bargen as Nix in Lord of Illusions is low-key maybe my favorite horror bad guy of all time not the best movie (by far) but just his voice and mannerisms in the last third of the movie convinced you that this pudgy balding white guy can really destroy the whole world with magic. His henchman Butterfield is wild too.
The cenobites, if I remember correctly, are members of a religion found in hell - The Order Of The Gash. "Cenobite" is an actual word for people who follow a monk-ish way of life defined by strict discipline and hard work. Clive Barker's books are amazing, btw - highly recommend "Books of blood" as a starting point!
When I was a kid, the local video store had a life size cut out of Pinhead holding the Puzzlebox and it scared me every time I went there. Now I’m middle-aged and I love Pinhead AND his puzzlebox.
They had a life size xenomorph in a mall we used to go through and I remember having to muster up some courage every time we walked by it. It made Alien a lot of fun to watch since the monster was already one that scared me as a child.
Hellraiser II is a must-watch as it pick ups directly after this one and elaborates on the lore a whole lot, introducing Leviathan (which was homaged in the movie The Void with the "triangle" cosmic entity, which you really should give a watch too!) and the cenobite dimension.
For the era that this film came out, it was very scary and well done. Times have changed and so have tastes in films and styles in production. That should not take away from this exquisite classic horror story of love and greed gone awry.
This month watch: 1. Killer Klowns from Outer Space 2. PumpkinHead 3. Stir of Echoes 4. Critters 5. The Gift (2000) 6. Interview with the Vampire 7. Clive Barkers Lord of Illusions 8. Child’s Play 2
I remember being chased and yelled out of the room at 8 years old by my mother and her friends as they were mesmerized watching until they noticed me. Nothing could have done more to guarantee me watching it. Very good choice.
As thick of a of a skin I've gotten over the decades of watching body horror, the shot of all the hooks in Larry's face getting pulled and stretched in all different directions, that particular scene/shot always makes me wince. An effortless testament to how those practical makeup FX have stood the test of time.🥹😵💫😵😱😫
No one ever suggests Phantasm. Well I've never seen anyone request it. Took 9 years for the sequel and was worth the wait. The Tall Man is an underrated antagonist IMO.
My local haunted house attraction had a pinhead/ Hellraiser room when I was a kid and it was scary AF! The guy playing Pinhead was a makeup artist and had the perfect mask of the character and this long black leather button up coat. He was an exact replica with bloody chains and hooks and it was so creepy and popular at the time. Everyone loved it yet was terrified of it too. Oh, the early 90s!
Though, I do appreciate how the first victim she lured back for frank not only HAS a limit for alcohol, and he could identify that he was past the limit. And so he declined the offer of more. It’s like he’s a responsible adult, or something.
The quickness I clicked on this video as soon as I saw the notification that you two were reacting to it. Lol. Even though I have a bit of a soft spot for Hellraiser III due to the hilariously 90s look of one cenobite in particularly, the second Hellraiser movie is the only other one really worth seeing.
Frank is the Hellraiser being referred to. In two senses. Not only because he summons the Cenobites, but because he's a troublemaker, a ruffian. A hellraiser is an old word for a partier , a troublemaker.
We have such sights to show you! I love the first two Hellraiser movies; the sequel picks up right where the first one left off, so much so that I think of them as one big epic movie
LMAO. Naily face is called Pinhead. Clive Barker did a magnificent job of grossing out horror fans. Loved your reactions to this iconic movie!! Keep them coming!!
Fun fact about the music: Initially Clive Barker approached UK underground experimental industrial neofolk band "Coil" to do the soundtrack. They obliged happily. But after listening to it Barker had to decline to integrate their music. His reasoning? "Guys, your music is fantastic. It's exactly what fits this movie perfectly .... but your music, with my storytelling and visuals, there will be lots of people who will 'unalive' themselves. So, sorry, can't do." .... The official studio version was "Thanks ... but your music is not commercially viable." Coil released later that year (1987) an album entitled "Coil - The Unreleased Themes for Hellraiser".
I visited San Francisco a few years ago and this one little shop had on display a pair of Pinhead jeans for $375. I proceeded to exclaim “your style will be legendary…EVEN IN HELL!” and nobody thought it was funny but me.
The 80s was the era for slasher movies ever since Halloween (1978) popularized the genre that Black Christmas (1974) codified. But in 1987, Clive Barker brought his own novella to life with Hellraiser and brought true gothic horror back to the forefront, but set in modern day with an underlying Lovecraftian influence. It's a story of lust, hedonism, and moral decay set in a universe of unknowable forces beyond human understanding. Or as one woman reportedly said in a meeting concerning the film's title, "What a Woman Will Do for a Good Fuck." XD
I'm not the biggest fan of Hellraiser and I actually like Clive Barker's fantasy books more than his horror, but I credit this film as being extremely original for its time. There was nothing really like it.
I was eight years old the first time I saw Hellraiser. It’s still one of my favorites. Hellraiser two and three are also worth watching. 10:39 The film is based on Clive’s novel: “the Hellbound Heart”.
Yeah this movie blurs the line between pleasure and pain in a sadomasochistic way. IRL we have people into the idea of painpleasure, but this dialed it up. . As for Julia and Frank, their relationship was purely sexual, with the oriignal book describing it as joyless, akin to rape. But she was definitely a masochist, and Frank tapped into that desire (no pun intended 😅).
When the movie was released the running time of a movie was about 90 minutes. So there was no extra time too show the back story. The Hellbound Heart. Book 1 was only 164 pages so it did never go into detail of the relationships.
Still my favourite Clive Barker movie. It has that raw look/feel about and also the sequel Hellbound is also pretty great directly continuing from the classic original, but that's where it all stops for me as others go down hill fast in quality :-)
To this day, that scene with the nail when they're moving the bed is literally one of the most intense scenes in any horror movie I've ever seen. On a side, note... you GOTTA do Hellraiser 2. It's 10x better, in my opinion. One of those sequels that surpasses an already great original.
This movie was a book written by Clive Barker which explains all the other questions you were asking at the end (Clive barker like body horror and lewd stuff, also religion)
In 8 films pinhead became the goat of on screan kills with a body count over 200 not bad considering he didnt do much the first 2 but clive barker also did good omens series
Andrew Robinson is a great actor. He played the Scorpio Killer in Dirty Harry. Great reaction! You should watch Hellraiser II, it's a great sequel. All the other sequel are not worth watching because after part two all the Hellraisers become simple slasher films that aren't as original as the first two films.
24:26 - It's not that Julia gave a darn if anything happened to Larry per se, but obviously Frank still needed plenty more bodies to fully recover, and as all of this is going down in Larry's house, if anything happened to Larry before Frank was completely restored, the jig would be up and Frank would be crap out of luck. The house is in Larry's name and there'd be no one to pay off the house... not to mention possible police inquiry about Larry's sudden disappearance, which would throw a serious monkey wrench into Frank and Julia's plans.
Andrew Robinson who plays Larry in Hellraiser also portrayed the character Charles "Scorpio Killer" Davis in Dirty Harry
And Garak!
@@robwalsh9843well yeah but that character is just a humble Tailor not a crazy killer like Scorpio.
Very true.
Oh shit that is him lol. Man, that guy might never have gotten as famous as some of them, but he sure had fun with his career.
And Garak in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
During an interview Doug Bradley described hell as a prison; the Cenobites are the prison guards, Pinhead is the prison warden, the puzzle box is the key to the prison cell, and the demons are the escaped inmates.
Interesting, but it doesn't seem right. I can see the prison part, but the box is more like a trap for the "fallen" shall we say, and the Cenobites are the Marshals who go collect whoever solves a box.
“You opened the box, we came” 😱😱😱
Haha you freaking goon. Love it.
Back in the 1980s where horror movies were creative and the fashions were really interesting LOL
HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER II is one of the best horror sequels and definitely worth watching if you enjoy this one.
and all the rest are horrible
Definitely one of the sequels that surpasses the (great) original.
You guys absolutely nailed it; just like Jason is the icon but his mom is the original villain, Pinhead is the icon but Julia (and Frank) were the original villains.
Pinhead didn't even have his iconic name in this movie, that came later! The cenobites were not really the typical evil villains either. As they said, they are demons to some, angels to others - they are *absolute* masters of sensations, mixing all the good and all the bad in this extreme experience... But their purpose clearly changed as sequels kept getting made and Pinhead became popular.
For next years spooky season poll can you please put Hellraiser 2 "Hellbound" on a poll. It is a really great sequel, which was filmed straight after the first movie and continues on the story just where the first movie left off so the continuity is seamless and i think you will really enjoy it. Hellraiser 3 is a bit of a drop off and vastly different so i would recommend part 2 for sure
I second!
Yes! I think Hellraiser 2 is a very worthy sequel and expands on the lore. I like it even more than the first one.
Okay, I can go with that, but for Valentines they should watch Nightbreed (it is a love story after all).
I thought the reboot from a couple years ago was decent as well
Ok, but why wait an entire year to react to it? They don't only do horror movie reactions during October, they just do them more frequently. However, they should do 'Hellbound' in the not too distant future. I would even say doing 'Hell on Earth' wouldn't be THAT bad of an idea. I personally also don't mind the 4th one, but I know a lot of people already somewhat don't care for the 3rd, so if they do anything past 'Hellbound', then I'd assume people would prefer they only go until 'Hell on Earth'
Clive Barker was promoted as the next big thing in horror back in the mid 80's. His Books of Blood were great reads, and there were several films made from several stories, to varying degrees of success.
Rawhead Rex is a European folk horror story. Nightbreed would be another film to check out, or Lord Of Illusion.
Hellraiser II explores more of this other world.
They should definitely watch Lord of Illusions
Daniel Von Bargen as Nix in Lord of Illusions is low-key maybe my favorite horror bad guy of all time not the best movie (by far) but just his voice and mannerisms in the last third of the movie convinced you that this pudgy balding white guy can really destroy the whole world with magic. His henchman Butterfield is wild too.
oh no tears please it’s a waste of perfectly good suffering lol 😈
The cenobites, if I remember correctly, are members of a religion found in hell - The Order Of The Gash. "Cenobite" is an actual word for people who follow a monk-ish way of life defined by strict discipline and hard work.
Clive Barker's books are amazing, btw - highly recommend "Books of blood" as a starting point!
When I was a kid, the local video store had a life size cut out of Pinhead holding the Puzzlebox and it scared me every time I went there. Now I’m middle-aged and I love Pinhead AND his puzzlebox.
They had a life size xenomorph in a mall we used to go through and I remember having to muster up some courage every time we walked by it. It made Alien a lot of fun to watch since the monster was already one that scared me as a child.
Wow, Hellraiser. Crazy movie. Another body horror film I recommend is Scanners and Videodrome.
“Frank go back in your room!”
“Can you be less gooey?!”
Hellraiser II is a must-watch as it pick ups directly after this one and elaborates on the lore a whole lot, introducing Leviathan (which was homaged in the movie The Void with the "triangle" cosmic entity, which you really should give a watch too!) and the cenobite dimension.
It's not a love story, it's a lust story. Don't follow thirsty ladies into dark rooms!
There's a picture on the internet of Doug Bradley holding a baby while in his Pinhead makeup 😂
"Come to daddy..."
That line became a meme before there were memes.
For the era that this film came out, it was very scary and well done. Times have changed and so have tastes in films and styles in production. That should not take away from this exquisite classic horror story of love and greed gone awry.
❤ Very true
But that's why it's a classic! Classics are either timeless (Alien), or so unique they stand the test of time! Or, both!
Yeah it was shot on film, which is superior to digital. Why do people have to put comments like "it was good for it's time" on older movies?
@ryanjacobson2508 Agreed. I don't think they mean anything bad by it, but if a movie was good then...chances are it's still good!
Oh the sights Samantha will (probably) see from behind her hands
ikr lol 😈
"We have such sights to show you!"
Yes! You guys watched Hellraiser! First time watching it is always an experience...
This month watch:
1. Killer Klowns from Outer Space
2. PumpkinHead
3. Stir of Echoes
4. Critters
5. The Gift (2000)
6. Interview with the Vampire
7. Clive Barkers Lord of Illusions
8. Child’s Play 2
Larry was a good guy. Just a plain, old, simple husband and father.
Out of all the horror movies this hellraiser theme soundtrack is absolutely on point!!!!
I remember being chased and yelled out of the room at 8 years old by my mother and her friends as they were mesmerized watching until they noticed me. Nothing could have done more to guarantee me watching it. Very good choice.
That must have been traumatic.
@@BarryHart-xo1oy no, funny as hell.
As thick of a of a skin I've gotten over the decades of watching body horror, the shot of all the hooks in Larry's face getting pulled and stretched in all different directions, that particular scene/shot always makes me wince.
An effortless testament to how those practical makeup FX have stood the test of time.🥹😵💫😵😱😫
Even the little things like Larry getting his hand cut on the nail still get me
@@GrosvnerMcaffrey Yep. That one as well.
My favorite Hellraiser after this one is the 4th movie Bloodline, that tells some backstory about the box and the person that made it.
The 2nd is even better - a rare dark & epic fantasy. Very unlike most.
This movie ranked at #19 in the 100 scariest movie moments on Bravo, cool reaction as always Schmitt & Samantha, you both take care
HAHAHA The David Bowie comment, I loved it :)
They are pins, he is known as "Pinhead".
Oh! How lovely! You guys rock for watching Hellraiser. Thank you. ❤
Happily have met Doug, Ashley, and Andrew!
"You want a cookie, little girl?" might actually be more unsettling than anything from Pinhead
Pleasure - of pain... No other pleasure meant. It's S&M at its purist
What’s in the box!!!
demons to some angels to others lol 🤣😂😈
@@LovelyBeachCoast-us1ec explorers....
Pain...
@@JnEricsonx pleasure lol 😂😈
@@LovelyBeachCoast-us1ec 3 autographs in my case. Doug, Ashley, and Terry.
The original working title was Sadomasochists from Beyond the Grave.
If they were going to not use The Hellbound Heart, I rather like the title that could have been: What a Woman Will Do for a Good Fuck.
somebody needs to send them the box lol 😂🤣😈
Oh, you’re in for a ride! lol Alright, let’s watch this.
"I'll do anything you want."
Get the movers some beer...
What a fun film, great for a first date!!
absolutely
No one ever suggests Phantasm. Well I've never seen anyone request it. Took 9 years for the sequel and was worth the wait. The Tall Man is an underrated antagonist IMO.
My local haunted house attraction had a pinhead/ Hellraiser room when I was a kid and it was scary AF! The guy playing Pinhead was a makeup artist and had the perfect mask of the character and this long black leather button up coat. He was an exact replica with bloody chains and hooks and it was so creepy and popular at the time. Everyone loved it yet was terrified of it too. Oh, the early 90s!
Hope you two are having an great and awesome day ❤
The makeup, special effects, music, and atmosphere are what I love most about this one! Classic 80's horror! 🪝🩸😵
Though, I do appreciate how the first victim she lured back for frank not only HAS a limit for alcohol, and he could identify that he was past the limit. And so he declined the offer of more. It’s like he’s a responsible adult, or something.
As he kisses her, he’s paying attention, he caught how she wasn’t into it and stopped.
And then he gets all pushy. I was starting to like him, too.
@@goatkiller666 Then, despite being blind drunk and horny, he catches himself and apologizes profusely. That puts him in the clear in my book.
The quickness I clicked on this video as soon as I saw the notification that you two were reacting to it. Lol.
Even though I have a bit of a soft spot for Hellraiser III due to the hilariously 90s look of one cenobite in particularly, the second Hellraiser movie is the only other one really worth seeing.
Omg looking at that poll, PLEASE watch the Blob (‘88). It’s a remake up there with the Fly & the Thing!! It is SO great!!!
Classic movie, used to watch this as a kid with my mates, we were way to young, different time ...
Me too. Kids are way more protected today
19:28 Samantha reaction lol 😂🤣
Frank is the Hellraiser being referred to. In two senses. Not only because he summons the Cenobites, but because he's a troublemaker, a ruffian. A hellraiser is an old word for a partier , a troublemaker.
you opened the box we came lol 😈
We have such sights to show you!
I love the first two Hellraiser movies; the sequel picks up right where the first one left off, so much so that I think of them as one big epic movie
Doug Bradley is still one of my favorite actors/VA. For those that don't know, he plays Pinhead.
He'll always be the definitive Pinhead.
Happily have met the man.
Oh that’s the villain from “Dirty Harry “!! Recognize him??
Larry
( you said he did a great job in Dirty Harry but I guess you forgot.)
Good catch!!
A simple tailor.
Larry is played by Andy Robinson, whom you've seen as Scorpio in Dirty Harry, and who is probably best known as Garak on Star Trek Deep Space Nine.
Love the call-back to the Candyman outro. I rewatch that sometimes when I need a good laugh. :)
The box has nothing to do with pleasure and heaven. The demons just view pain as pleasure. Its a trick to get people to open the box.
I'm giving this a thumbs up without even watching it. Because I know what you're in for. 😆
Pumpkinhead is Horror cult classic from the 80's.
I didn't get to watch this as a kid and I'm glad I didn't cause I wouldve had so many nightmares lol
LMAO. Naily face is called Pinhead. Clive Barker did a magnificent job of grossing out horror fans. Loved your reactions to this iconic movie!! Keep them coming!!
Fun fact about the music: Initially Clive Barker approached UK underground experimental industrial neofolk band "Coil" to do the soundtrack. They obliged happily. But after listening to it Barker had to decline to integrate their music. His reasoning? "Guys, your music is fantastic. It's exactly what fits this movie perfectly .... but your music, with my storytelling and visuals, there will be lots of people who will 'unalive' themselves. So, sorry, can't do." .... The official studio version was "Thanks ... but your music is not commercially viable."
Coil released later that year (1987) an album entitled "Coil - The Unreleased Themes for Hellraiser".
I visited San Francisco a few years ago and this one little shop had on display a pair of Pinhead jeans for $375. I proceeded to exclaim “your style will be legendary…EVEN IN HELL!” and nobody thought it was funny but me.
Pin Head is my absolute favorite villain!😅
The 80s was the era for slasher movies ever since Halloween (1978) popularized the genre that Black Christmas (1974) codified. But in 1987, Clive Barker brought his own novella to life with Hellraiser and brought true gothic horror back to the forefront, but set in modern day with an underlying Lovecraftian influence. It's a story of lust, hedonism, and moral decay set in a universe of unknowable forces beyond human understanding.
Or as one woman reportedly said in a meeting concerning the film's title, "What a Woman Will Do for a Good Fuck." XD
Strange that you released this today, I just listened to the audiobook today at work.
"There's so much more the body can be made to feel......and you'll feel it All before we're through"
The Hell Priest AKA Pinhead. Hellraiser (2022).
This is my favorite of all time horror movie. You should see Nightbreed
please Samantha and tbr watch the second hellraiser movie too 🥺🙏😈
I'm not the biggest fan of Hellraiser and I actually like Clive Barker's fantasy books more than his horror, but I credit this film as being extremely original for its time. There was nothing really like it.
I was eight years old the first time I saw Hellraiser. It’s still one of my favorites. Hellraiser two and three are also worth watching. 10:39 The film is based on Clive’s novel: “the Hellbound Heart”.
“Naily-face” is a way better name than Pinhead 😂
I saw this in the theater when it came out. It was great on the big screen. There were more than a few "yes" and the like over Julia's fate.
Yeah this movie blurs the line between pleasure and pain in a sadomasochistic way. IRL we have people into the idea of painpleasure, but this dialed it up. . As for Julia and Frank, their relationship was purely sexual, with the oriignal book describing it as joyless, akin to rape. But she was definitely a masochist, and Frank tapped into that desire (no pun intended 😅).
When the movie was released the running time of a movie was about 90 minutes. So there was no extra time too show the back story. The Hellbound Heart. Book 1 was only 164 pages so it did never go into detail of the relationships.
Still my favourite Clive Barker movie. It has that raw look/feel about and also the sequel Hellbound is also pretty great directly continuing from the classic original, but that's where it all stops for me as others go down hill fast in quality :-)
For Body Horror. Society has to be one of the most out there of them all
One of my all-time favorite horror movies and I’ve never seen a reaction video for it.
@@1pknail I’ve never seen one either and would love to see the reaction of people for that final scene haha
I'm pretty sure I first saw Hellraiser in my dermatologist's office.
The character, not the movie. 😅
This has been one of my favorite horror movies since the 90's
To this day, that scene with the nail when they're moving the bed is literally one of the most intense scenes in any horror movie I've ever seen.
On a side, note... you GOTTA do Hellraiser 2. It's 10x better, in my opinion. One of those sequels that surpasses an already great original.
This movie was a book written by Clive Barker which explains all the other questions you were asking at the end (Clive barker like body horror and lewd stuff, also religion)
I tried to shave this morning, but I kept nicking myself. Then I realized I was using the new fangled "Hell-Razor"
But seriously,
Cinnabites are delicious
In 8 films pinhead became the goat of on screan kills with a body count over 200 not bad considering he didnt do much the first 2 but clive barker also did good omens series
The short story this was based on written by Clive Barker was called "The hellbound Heart." kind of more fitting than Hellraiser considering the plot.
“That would be HARDCORE” lmaoooo
"Jesus...wept."
The first 4 Hellraiser movies are worth a watch but don't bother with the rest.
I hope they they do just the 4 one can hope 🥺🙏
I agree
Andrew Robinson is a great actor. He played the Scorpio Killer in Dirty Harry. Great reaction! You should watch Hellraiser II, it's a great sequel. All the other sequel are not worth watching because after part two all the Hellraisers become simple slasher films that aren't as original as the first two films.
I like movies with TBR Schmitt!
me 2
and Samantha 🥰
Gross and great reaction Daniel and Samantha love it
TBR Schmitt and a lot of :”oohs !! Ewws ( misspelled??)”
You needed another "w". Eww!
You spelled out ewe, which is a female sheep. Easy mistake, especially with autocorrect!
This was adapted from the Clive Barker novel The Hellbound Heart. This released the same year as A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
One of the Hellraiser sequels explains how demon Pinhead came to be.
THAT was "john the baptist" that ate LOCUST & wild honey ... JESUS drew the line at crickets !! LOL
32:50 lol Sam 😂🤣
I remember I asked if you guys were gonna do this movie. Now you are so I will say this In Pinhead's voice "The review, wanted it, we watched it!!!"
Brother Frank has a magic johnson, LOL.
Julia just could not resist! Heh
29:38 the best part of this movie 😈
24:26 - It's not that Julia gave a darn if anything happened to Larry per se, but obviously Frank still needed plenty more bodies to fully recover, and as all of this is going down in Larry's house, if anything happened to Larry before Frank was completely restored, the jig would be up and Frank would be crap out of luck. The house is in Larry's name and there'd be no one to pay off the house... not to mention possible police inquiry about Larry's sudden disappearance, which would throw a serious monkey wrench into Frank and Julia's plans.