Jaded Frank Cotton (Sean Chapman) visits a Middle Eastern cafe to meet his contact who agrees to sell him a very particular kind of box. Returning to his family home, he sets up a makeshift camp in one upstairs room and sets about solving the riddle of...read the complete Hellraiser (1987) review at The Spinning Image (Graeme Clark)
Soon she is able to bring him back from the dead through human sacrifices to complete his decayed body. However, Cenobites, demons from the Beyond, claim possession of the man and do their thing to make sure he stays in their Hell....read the complete Hellraiser (1987) review at DVD Review e-zine
Clive Barker is the new *wunderkind* of horror fiction. While Stephen King writes pretty much in the well-trodden areas of horror--clairvoyance, psi powers, vampires, etc.--Clive Barker seems to create startlingly new ideas that are usually totally off...read the complete Hellraiser (1987) review at Mark R. Leeper