#the hellbound heart | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

maekar76 · 1 year

Text

Hellraiser

#Hellraiser #the Hellbound Heart #Clive Barker #horror #horror films #horror movies #Pinhead #the Hell Priest #cenobites

2K notes · View notes

the-watcher-in-the-sky · 1 year

Text

699 notes · View notes

jurassicass · 4 months

Text

Cenobite OC and their pre lament configuration lewk

#idk is cenobite ocs niche #IDC THATS MY BRAND #my art #wlw art #cenobite #cenobite oc #hellraiser #hellraiser oc #horror oc #horror art #the hellbound heart #pinhead #chatterer #butterball

182 notes · View notes

barbersurge0n · 8 months

Text

source: Internet Archive

#clive barker #hellraiser #the hellbound heart #books #mine

150 notes · View notes

derangedrhythms · 2 years

Text

So August gave way to September and there were few complaints.

Clive Barker, from 'The Hellbound Heart'

#clive barker #the hellbound heart #killing the spring #months and seasons #prose

1K notes · View notes

80smovies · 7 months

Text

#Clive Barker #The Hellbound Heart #Hellraiser #Doug Bradley #Pinhead #Lead Cenobite #80s

103 notes · View notes

brokehorrorfan · 1 month

Text

Gutter Garbs has a Hellraiser design by Sam Coyne on T-shirts ($30), long sleeves ($40), zip-up hoodies ($50), and 12x18 prints ($36). Pre-orders are up through Sunday, March 24, and will ship the week of April 21.

#hellraiser #pinhead #clive barker #doug bradley #horror #80s horror #1980s horror #gutter garbs #sam coyne #shirt #gift #the hellbound heart #andrew robinson #ashley laurence #cenobite

34 notes · View notes

isekyai · 27 days

Text

wow guys this new avatar from the magnus protocol is pretty cool right

#tmagp #tmagp spoilers #the magnus protocol #needles tmagp #tmagp needles #hellraiser #pinhead #the hellbound heart

38 notes · View notes

borninwinter81 · 23 days

Text

I've been rediscovering my love for Clive Barker this week due to finally managing to see The Ultimate Cabal Cut of Nightbreed (some kind soul has uploaded it to YouTube) and then re-reading Cabal, the book it was based on.

Cabal is amongst my favourite books ever written (though as a bibliophile that list is extremely long!) and one of my favourite movies. I originally saw it in the early 90s when I was probably far too young, and read the book not long after.

I backed the Occupy Midian campaign in 2012 when the lost footage was being searched for and reintegrated into the movie, and I attended a screening of one of the early edits where I met Nicholas Vince and Simon Bamford (Kinski and Ohnaka in Nightbreed, but better known as two of the Cenobites from Hellraiser). This led to the eventual DVD/Blu-ray release of The Directors Cut (which I got a physical copy of) and then The Ultimate Cabal Cut (which I didn’t, and which I haven't seen until now).

It's an oversimplification to call Barker's work horror, especially in Cabal/Nightbreed - this was the mistake the production company made when originally editing and marketing it.

Clive Barker's vision shows us the beauty of the weird, the macabre, the abnormal, and the supernatural, and the true horror in his work comes from the "normal".

In Cabal/Nightbreed his monsters are not evil, they're simply different - undead, mutants and supernatural beings, a metaphor for anyone who has ever felt othered by society. Midian is a place where they can live safely with no fear or judgement. The evil characters are "naturals", humans who hate and fear the monsters for being different even though they pose no threat, and ultimately try to destroy them.

As a member of the LGBT community it's easy to see where Barker's motivation for this metaphor came from, but it could equally apply to just about anyone who feels like they don't fit in. Certainly as a lonely, bullied, weird child when I first read/saw it, who then grew up into a reasonably weird adult, I'd love for the monsters to come and take me away to Midian.

Anyone seeing this who isn't familiar with the book/movie, I'd urge you to look them up, as well as others by Barker. More of my favourites by him are Imajica, Abarat and of course The Hellbound Heart, filmed as Hellraiser. The Forbidden from short story anthology The Books of Blood was also filmed as Candyman.

Below I've linked The Cabal Cut of Nightbreed. Even if you know and love the original theatrical release I'd still urge you to watch this (quick as you can in case its removed due to copyright!).

In addition to doubling the movie length from 1 hour 40 mins to 3 hours 20 mins, a number of the actors voices have been re-recorded as they were overdubbed in the theatrical version for some reason, notably those of Rachel, and Lylesberg, played by Doug Bradley. It was a crime to remove that man's beautiful voice and wonderful to hear it back where its meant to be.

Also, rather than being a standard horror movie heroine who seems to be there only to scream and be rescued, in this version Lori comes across as much stronger and more well-rounded character.

As it says in the opening text, although much of the footage was of good quality there are some sections where all they had available were degraded VHS tapes, some of which were without audio. This means the editing is also a little clunky in places. However the makers of this version wanted to include everything they possibly could in order to bring it in line with the original shooting script and Clive Barker's epic vision for the piece.