What ever happened to movie plots? This 1987 first feature by celebrated English horror writer Clive Barker starts off with a potentially viable one, and shows some flair with cutting and framing that bodes well for the future. But at the point where the characters in this magic box/haunted house tale should be turning into […]

Hellraiser is a well-paced sci-fi cum horror fantasy [from Clive Barker's own novel The Hellbound Heart].

Clive Barker marked his debut as a director with this science fiction adaptation from his own novel. This skillfully creepy film tells the story of so

Read the Empire Movie review of EMPIRE ESSAY: Hellraiser. With Hellraiser, Clive Barker created one of the most genuinely disturbing movies of the last 20...

In the bare bedroom of a London suburban house, bored sensualist Frank Cotton solves the mystery of a Chinese puzzle-box and enters a world of exquisite cruelty

Clive Barker marked his debut as a director with this science fiction adaptation from his own novel. This skillfully creepy film tells the story of so

In this blackly comic gorefest, a couple encounter a horde of hellish demons when they move into a creepy old house

...a demystifying experience, especially if the movie’s Pinhead poster was a staple of your youth.

Its overriding ridiculousness (and nagging budgetary shortcomings) can’t disguise the fact that the movie is at least unwittingly a product of the AIDS crisis.

Read the Empire Movie review of Hellraiser. A slicky edited, white knuckle ride to the depths of depravity. It's a shame that Barker has never...

"I have seen the future of the horror genre, and his name is Clive Barker." - Stephen King