Hellraiser 1987

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Minor grisly fun, but don't expect the movie to linger when it's over. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: This is a movie without wit, style or reason, and the true horror is that actors were made to portray, and technicians to realize, its bankruptcy of imagination. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: [Writer/Director Clive] Barker's dazzling debut as a director creates such an atmosphere of dread that the astonishing visual set pieces simply detonate in a chain reaction of cumulative intensity. Read more

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Richard Harrington, Washington Post: It's a dark, frequently disturbing and occasionally terrifying film that suggests Barker's vision hasn't quite made the conversion from paper to celluloid. Read more