There are some good ideas in the book, but I found it to be too meandering and it kind of lost me in its weaving narrative. I recommend the Books of Blood but Weaveworld left me cold. I quickly went on to read his excellent Books of Blood stories and his 1987 dark fantasy novel Weaveworld. I didn’t know Barker was already a published writer when he made Hellraiser. “Do you even know who we are?” it asked.”Īfter learning that writer/director Clive Barker based the film on his novella The Hellbound Heart, I saught it out. Every inch of its head had been tattooed with an intricate grid, and at every intersection of horizontal and vertical axes a jeweled pin driven through to the bone. Its voice, unlike that of its companion, was light and breathy-the voice of an excited girl. The hell priest who became known as “Pinhead” didn’t scare me, I just thought he was cool. What are Cenobites? They are demonic beings that will “tear your soul apart” if you summon them. I thought it was such a unique idea for a horror movie and can still remember being freaked out by the Cenobites, especially the teeth-gnashing one. I watched the original Hellraiser movie (1987) back in the late 1980s.
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