#hellraiser bloodlines

[inthehills-thecities]

the women of Hellraiser, part 3: the Female Cenobite (Hellraiser, Hellbound: Hellraiser II) and Angelique, Princess of Hell (Hellraiser: Bloodlines)

part 1 / part 2

[fanofspooky]

“Oh, no tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering!”

[talesfromthecrypts]

Hellbound: Hellraiser II // Hellraiser: Bloodlines

[veryfancydoilies]

Who is your favorite of Adam’s horror film characters?

Ohm Bauman (Hokum)

Tom Engel (Krampus)

Kurt (The Return)

Little Evil (Gary Bloom)

Justin Henderson (The Twilight Zone episode “Nightmare at 30,000 Feet”)

Jacques (Hellraiser: Bloodline)

Petey Shelborn Sr. (The Monkey)

Novak (Piranha 3D)

Voting ended onMay 8

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[1cebittentwicehigh]

When Hellraiser met Jeepers Creepers.

Search "Horror" on my page and you will see just how crazy this horror collection has grown & accumulated.

[ridermatsu]

🧠👼Angelique👼🧠

[awesomephd]

Watching Through My Collection: Day 3/36

Hellraiser IV: Bloodline (1996)

Day 2 / Day 4

An inevitability of getting through this backlog of movies via random wheel is that any franchises in the list are gonna get shuffled out of order. So, here's the first one we got!

Luckily, I've already seen the first two Hellraiser movies so I know most of the lore already attached to Pinhead and the Cenobites, and any references to the third movie weren't blatant enough for me to notice, so this was still a pretty good watch.

CW: Bodyhorror

There's so much to say about this movie...

Adam Scott's there! He plays a non-insubstantial part and gets to skin a woman and have really funny hair. I kinda wanted him to hang out for longer but he did eventually die, cause if you're willing to skin a person alive then you may get killed before the movie ends.

He also got to live 200 years without aging, so he was probably bored anyway.

The fact that this movie decided to cover 3 different generations of a family line was pretty neat, and having the same actor play his own descendants is one of my favorite tropes, so I was willing to forgive some of the lamer moments in the middle.

Obviously, since the movie opens in the future setting of 2127, and the first flashback goes to 1796 to when the Lament Configuration was first created, by the time the story gets to 1996 you know the stakes can only get so high.

Pinhead doesn't show up until the 1996 setting, really. Technically, he appeared in the beginning set in the future, but this is when you really get see him! When he does finally get to interact, he brings the elegance we all know and love him for. Even while being a catty bitch to the other Cenobite, Angelique, that's been the main antagonist up until then.

He even pets a dove and feeds it to his dog, he's amazing.

There is the most random character establishing conversation I have seen for some monster fodder in a movie to this day, though.

A pair of identical twin himbo night-security guards checking around the empty building the Cenobites are in talk about whether they'd fuck a transwoman.

While, yeah, this was 1996, we've all seen a 90's film where guys talk about whether they'd fuck a transwoman, I certainly did not expect it to get slipped into my Hellraiser movie.

Good news is; they would 👍

Honestly, the only things that really stuck out from the 1996 storyline was that conversation, Pinhead's dog, and a bit of plot explained about the final box to destroy the Cenobites involving lazers. The rest of the human conflict just can't suck you in when you know that the Cenobites don't take over the world (no one believes the Lament Configuration is dangerous in the future) and the kid survives because the bloodline needs to carry on in order for the future to even happen.

(The flat acting also doesn't help sell the arc. Best actor in there was the kid playing with his K'NEX. So relatable.)

Thankfully, once the movie gets back to the future it's all about that climax and hot Cenobite body horror goodness!!

Everyone looks amazing and Pinhead flexes his stuff a lot more, them all getting a turn to kill someone in a fun way. Angelique decapitates a guy via mirror magic, the dog gets a guy while he's hiding, the Taffy Twins separate and then fucking absorb a dude in between them, and while Pinhead doesn't get any kills at the end, he does get to chew the scenery and get blown the fuck up by the giant box space station they finally built right to kill the Cenobites.

Of the weird trend of sending horror icons to space around the turn of the millennia, this is my favorite by far. I cannot wait to be sad and disappointed at all the other movies that'll barely have anything to do with the Hellraiser story beyond Pinhead showing up.

[duranduratulsa]

Up next on my 90's Fest Movie and TV Marathon...Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #horror #hellraiser #hellraiserbloodline #clivebarker #dougbradley #pinhead #cenobites #bruceramsay #valentinavargas #kimmyers #courtlandmead #vintage #vhs #90s #90sfest #durandurantulsas2ndannual90sfest