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The Horror Show: A Horror Movie Podcast

THS #312: Serial Killer I - Cruel Imagination - The Hellraiser Franchise

The Horror Show: A Horror Movie Podcast

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4.5811 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2023

⏱️ 152 minutes

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Hello Horror Heads!  We kick off this year's Serial Killer covering the Hellraiser franchise. In this episode we cover Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II. Enjoy! 

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0:00.0

A cinematic fever dream based on the visionary game.

0:05.0

You did it, didn't you, Jimmy? You woke him up.

0:10.3

No one said it would be easy.

0:12.9

Return to Silent Hill.

0:15.0

Exclusively in theaters, January 23rd.

0:19.8

In 1985, a young author is sitting in his Liverpool apartment.

0:24.0

He has no typewriter.

0:25.2

He has no word processor.

0:26.9

He's putting a literal pen to paper.

0:29.4

The words start flying off the pages.

0:31.2

And in 1986, he published his newly finished short story, The Hellbound Heart.

0:37.1

The Hellbound Heart dives deep into hedonistic ideas

0:39.7

and the concept of differentiating the line between extreme pleasure and pain. It also introduced

0:44.4

us to a group of nameless creatures called Cenobites. The book didn't pick up steam until a fellow

0:49.5

author, named Stephen King, made a statement that would change the author's life. I've seen the future

0:54.6

of horror and his name is Clive Barker. This serial killer isn't about Clyde Barker specifically,

1:00.6

but when an artist, and I mean a real, true artist, is also able to create one of the most

1:06.0

marketable and successful franchises ever, you have to give them their roses.

1:16.6

Clive famously said, I want to be remembered as an imaginer, someone who used his imagination as a way to journey beyond the limits of self, beyond the limits of flesh and blood, beyond the limits of

1:22.0

even perhaps life itself. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, hold your breath, make a wish, count to three,

1:30.6

and come with us to a world of cruel imagination as we explore the franchise of Hellraiser. Hello everybody and welcome to the horror show, show, die, sex, mutilates, dismembers, and butchers, all of your favorite and not-so-favorite horror movies and other horror-related events.

2:06.9

I'm Sean.

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