All this time I thought I'd never seen this movie. The series and the Pinhead character were iconic when I was growing up. The fact that Hellraiser in general was just part of any decent conversation about horror films meant I had to include it. Then it turned out most of the movie was familiar. I'm sure now I must have watched it on late night cable as a teenager.
Click here for a list of all other films reviewed and considered for this October 2012 series of horror reviews.
I must have done a lot more late-night cable viewing as a
teenager than I thought because it turns out, despite my apparently unreliable
memory, that I’d seen Hellraiser
before. Or I’d seen most of it anyway. I understand why I blocked all conscious
traces of it from my mind. I had to spare myself the embarrassment of acknowledging
that I’d spent time on this sloppy excuse for a thriller. There’s no denying it
now, I suppose.
