Starring: Jamie Clayton , Goran Visnjic , Hiam Abbass , Brandon Flynn , Drew Starkey , Odessa A’zion the film remains a popular and perhaps even quintessential film because of its relentless, grotesque, Hellraiser: Resurrection - vintage featurette including interviews with Barker, actors Doug Bradley and Ashley Laurence, special make-up effects artist Bob Keen and others The biggest difference right off the bat between the two competing editions of Hellraiser is Image's ditching of Anchor Bay's Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Clive Barker wrote the original story of The Hellbound Heart with the intention of turning it into a film in the mid 1980s. Although he had made a couple of short films when he was younger, he had never directed a full length feature. Scoring a deal with New World, he was able to both write and direct Hellraiser with no outside interference. During production, everything was going so well and the studio was so impressed with what they were seeing that a sequel was greenlit before the first film had even been released. It turned out to be a good call as Hellraiser was well-received by the horror community, despite the mixed to negative critical reception.

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The Pursuit of Possibilities, a brand new 60-minute discussion between acclaimed horror authors Paula D. Ashe (We Are Here To Hurt Each Other) and Eric LaRocca (Everything the Dark Eats) celebrating the queerness of Hellraiser and the importance of Clive Barker as a queer writer But the return of Barker to being a much more active participant in the fourth film, Hellraiser: Bloodline, promised much…an anthology structure across multiple timelines to explore the origins of the box (now wonderfully known as The Lament Configuration). Yet its strangled production and sadly typical studio interference gutted a lot of what could have been, leaving an interesting but hugely flawed curio that remains to this day the last Hellraiser film to see the inside of a cinema… The big question with this release, however, is how it compares to Anchor Bay's fine and, unfortunately, out-of-print release. While the two are in many ways comparable, the Anchor Bay release

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Books of Blood and Beyond: The Literary Works of Clive Barker - archival appreciation by horror author David Gatwalk of Barker’s written work, from The Books of Blood to The Scarlet Gospels Bloodline is much of the same – it has a slightly more active surround expansion (likely due to its more mid-90s approach to such things) and it does go a touch deeper with its sound effects (space will tend to do that…) but its very much of an audio piece with its brethren: technically well done but more of a perfunctory original mix than an exercise in audio audacity. Being Frank: Sean Chapman on Hellraiser - actor Sean Chapman talks candidly about playing the character of Frank Cotton in Barker's original

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And Arrow have delivered top notch restorations and a wealth of new and interesting supplementals to help ease the pain for those double and even triple dipping on these films. It’s a handsome set both on-disc and off and should make fans very happy indeed. The Beauty of Suffering - featurette exploring the Cenobites' connection to goth, fetish cultures and BDSM – NEW (28 mins) something of a slightly washed out look to it, but the palette looks good in context, whether accurate flesh tones, bright blood red, or the earthen Note: Hellraiser currently appears only in Arrow Video's Hellraiser: The Scarlet Box. An individual Blu-ray release will be available in 2016.Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser - this documentary, narrated by Oliver Smith, focuses on the production history of Hellraiser, its cult status, and some of the key themes/subthemes in the film. Included in it are interviews with special effects designer Bob Keen, image animator Geoff Portass, Ashley Laurence, Doug Bradley (Pinhead), director of photography Robin Vidgeon, producer Christopher Figg, and director Clive Barker, amongst others. In English, not subtitled. (89 min).

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Hell Was What They Wanted! - brand new 80-minute appreciation of Hellbound, the Hellraiser mythos and the work of Clive Barker by horror authors George Daniel Lea (Born in Blood) and Kit Power (The Finite)Nothing new here from Arrow – no new 3D remixes or any such frippery, just a retaining of the original options (and in Hellraiser IIIs case a nice addition) that were always technically solid and deliver it’s terrifying wares very well indeed. Power of Imagination - brand new 60-minute discussion about Hellraiser and the work of Clive Barker by film scholars Sorcha Ní Fhlainn (editor of Clive Barker: Dark Imaginer) and Karmel Kniprath Experience the sublime agony of this quartet of torment like you never have before in all new 4K restorations from the original camera negatives. Hell has never looked better! FOUR DISC ULTRA HD LIMITED EDITION CONTAINS