Hellraiser (1987) SHOCKING MOVIE REACTION! FIRST TIME WATCHING! 

funny story: my parents actually watched this in theaters when it first came out and they told me they were so scared they wanted to leave, but the theater was so dark that they couldn’t see where the exit was (and they were too petrified to even move anyway) so they sat and watched the whole thing scared out of their minds and to this day refuse to rewatch it 😂

"This is going to be a very gory movie, isnt it" - We have such sights to show you!

I don’t think anyone else has made a reaction video for Hellraiser. You may have broken ground.

That prolonged silence as the credits arrived was fantastic.

One of the greatest horror movies ever made.

"Directed by someone named Clive Barker." Those words hurt my soul. LOL

"Is it foreign?" "No, it's American." That made me giggle.

To give you more context about the themes in this movie it's helpful to know Clive Barker was a big fan of the fetish community. That's why the cenobites are all wearing black leather and talking about mixing pain and pleasure. "We are explorers in the further regions of experience" is a very telling line.

John Carpenter's - "The Thing" from 1982 - One of the best horror movies ever with the great practical effects of the 80's - and Kurt Russell.

Your faces during “Jesus Wept” might be my favorite moment of any reaction video ever. This movie was made for reactions. More people need to get their hooks into this...

Doug Bradley is THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN PLAY PINHEAD CORRECTLY.

“Jesus. Wept” favorite improvised line in a horror movie ever. Favorite horror movie too

Clive Barker is English, and so is this movie. The daughter and the dad are the only Americans in this movie, the rest are British and most of them were dubbed.

You'll never guess what sent me here, or rather, WHO sent me...NICHOLAS BURMAN-VINCE, the actor who played the "Chatterer" Cenobite. He LOVED your reaction, and posted the link on his Facebook page! And he called it right...I loved it, too!

Id love to see you guys react to "Event Horizon" OMG that would be PERFECT

Finally! FINALLY someone made a proper reaction to Hellraiser! One of the most creative Horror films ever made.

I watched this while I was eating. Still finished my lunch. I grew up with these films. There's nothing like the practical effects of the 1980's. Just think of the art, time, and work that went into making it believable.

Saw this premier on Halloween night, presented by Clive Barker himself at the Bloor Cinema in Toronto. Barker arrived late and ran down the isle with the film cannister in hand and disappeared through the curtains before it began!

This channel is going to be a hit guys. A overlooked horror masterpiece is frailty from the 2000's. if you decide to watch it don't research it the less you know about the story the better.

This is one of the few movies where seeing the monster is more terrifying than your imagination. When pinhead says year your soul apart with the bright light, it kept me up for an entire night. The second movie was scarier to me.

The expressions on your faces make these reactions LOL. Just brilliant. Subbed.

Candyman and The Thing next? And American Werewolf in London. and The Howling.

I love watching the younger generation reacting to the great movies I enjoyed in my youth. I'd recommend Hellraiser 2 and 3 as well, but stop after that. The other five movies just aren't that good.

Thank you for reacting to this one! I saw this back in 1988, when I was 14 years old. It is one of my absolute favourite horror movies ever - mostly because it is so unyielding! Almost every horror movie has lighthearted moments, or a funny line here or there, to ease up the tension... But Hellraiser does not. It is just pitch f**king black throughout! And, as you pointed out yourselves, the special fx makeup, that today in 2020 is 33 years old, is incredible!!

Something that set this movie apart from pretty much everything coming out of Hollywood at the time was the fact that the Cenobites (Pinhead in particular) were far more 'intellectual' than other movie monsters, who all tended to follow one of two formulas: they were either wisecracking smartasses like Freddy Krüeger for example, or mute killing machines like Jason Vorhees. As a matter of fact the production company wanted Barker to make Pinhead more like Freddy Krüeger, but he absolutely refused. Another thing perhaps is the fact that Frank and Julia were the real antagonists, rather than the Cenobites filling that function - which likely had been the case if Hollywood had their way. Sadly they did from the third movie onwards... Hellraiser 5 through 8 weren't actually Hellraiser movies originally. The studio simply acquired some scripts for cheap and rewrote them to include Pinhead. They had to produce a Hellraiser movie every few years in order to keep the license. The 9th movie was written specifically for that purpose. They outright told the director and script writer that they didn't care about the quality of the movie as long as they had something they could release before the deadline, and they shot that crapfest in just a couple of weeks iirc. It's some of the worst crap I've seen, so bad that I haven't bothered to watch the 10th movie, despite hearing that it's relatively decent.

The silence at the end was hilarious. Catching up on the old school horror... love it. I have such sights to show you! Oooohhhh

We'll tear your soul apart! The sequel is really good. It expands alot more. You'll see more of the cenobites in that film than this. I'm surprised you guys haven't seen Friday the 13th yet. Its usually talked about among nightmare and halloween. Also Texas chainsaw.

Clive barker was/is an author, he sold the rights to one of his books and he said they sort of used about 7 lines, (transmutation/underworld). he was pissed off so he decided to direct hellraiser himself,the first and second are almost direct sequels following on from each other.

You think this film is crazy you haven't seen nothing. Hellbound definitely gives you so much more crazy and more of a better look into Pinhead and Hell.

When I saw this for the first time in the theater in 1987, I couldn't sleep for a week!! It pushed horror into a new...dimension.

Reacting to Hellraiser is ballsy.

Jeez, these are the movies from my childhood, good times. I was always a bit of a freak my Dad was a horror movie fan so I saw films like Evil Dead & The Burning both which got banned for a time when I was like 9 years old! I was 13 when I watched Hellraiser, I remember I even had a replica puzzle box🤣

I would suggest Poltergeist, The Shining, Alien. Those three are absolute horror classics, in my opinion. Hellraiser 2 is pretty good, 3 is alright, the rest are debatably bad

Clive Barker is an amazing artist... painter, sculptor, writer. His work is quite dark/gothic in esthetic. Beautiful work

Frank's resurrection is hands down one of the best (and my favorite) practical effects pieces ever. EDIT: The same cannot be said for The Engineer (the inverted salamander thing that chased her down the hallway).

Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English playwright, novelist, film director, and visual artist. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories, the Books of Blood, which established him as a leading horror writer. He has since written many novels and other works, and his fiction has been adapted into films, notably the Hellraiser and Candyman series.

Great video! So glad I found it. Sixteen-year-old me snuck into _Hellraiser_ on opening night back in '87. The audience - myself included - were utterly blown away by the imagery and violence. There really was nothing like it at the time. Literally, when the credits rolled, you could hear fifty people *finally* let out their held breath, all at once.

Clive Barker is a great writer. His novel "Weave world" was vert interesting.

You guys gotta do Hellraiser 2. Love this channel. The original Fright Night would be a good one too. Cheers.

John carpenter "The Thing"

Another Gorey one from the 80s. Mix of serious and comedy. H.P. Lovecraft's Re-Animator. You should also like this one.

Your faces when Frank is all chained and hooked up at the end say more than words ever could. Love the channel guys

this is one of my fav films ever hellraiser 2 is arguably almost as good if not better..

Saw this movie in theatre at the time of its release on a whim, as there was not much promotion around it, so had no idea what to expect and it blew my mind. Especially the design of Cenobytes.

Definitely watch the 2nd hellraiser. The lore is far more expansive and explains sooooo much more.

The second one goes more into Pinhead's history. He was a British captain who served in WW1 and found himself traumatized at the things he and his countrymen were forced to do to people in their attempt to win the war. He traveled abroad afterward, wandering about aimlessly searching for ways in which to bury his trauma until at last he came upon the box.

Really, best reaction ever hahahaha. Your speechless faces are exactly what Hellraiser caused on me when I wacthed it for the first time, with the gore and wtf moments. That's why I love it, it's so original, the make up is beast and it stands out from other horror movies from that era. I went to see the house in London in 2018, it's still there!

I really love this movie. One of the most underrated movies ever.

So I’ve been meaning to watch this reaction for so long, I have seen all of your guys recent reactions. But, this one… your guys speechless moments and overall main reactions for this film was everything. Simply for the fact that I had the exact same reaction myself when I first watched it either the end of last year or start of this year. I’m going to check out the reaction to Hellraiser 2 right now. Extremely awesome reactions guys, thank you. ☺️

Loved both of your faces there at the end where you were just trying to process what you'd just watched as the credits rolled, priceless !!! HellRaiser has a special place in my love of horror and my only claim to fame, the actor who played the female Cenobite, Grace Kirby, was my Performing Arts tutor back in my college days !!

You guys should watch "The Gate" rekeased the same year it had impressive visual effects for its time.

In 1985 Stephen King said Clive Barker was “the future of horror.” I saw Hellraiser when it came out in theaters. A group of us drove from our little remote Indian reservation to the city to see it - had to stay in a momo. Nobody slept that night!

First off-SORRY I WROTE SO MUCH. But Hellraiser is of my all time favorite films (like the Exorcist, I also watched this movie alone the first time I ever saw it. I was 11; YEP. My cousin had the VHS tape and I watched it over there alone in his room-without my parents knowledge 😂 and it terrified me. That resurrection scene using practical effects was truly incredible, original and revolutionary in its time. There was nothing remotely like it when this came out. It was extremely scary in its time. And this film at its core is a depraved, super horrific version of extreme S&M, mixed with murder, monsters from hell (they are actually called cenobites. And the lead guy is Pinhead-he’s a legendary character now but not then-then he was an underground character that belonged to us the fans), lots of blood and the concept that in hell, pain is the only pleasure. And sometimes hell comes looking for you to tear your soul apart. So be weary of boxes with puzzles🤣This film also gives me a lot of feels of nostalgia-my friends and I all knew the lines from this one and the second one, as well as Evil Dead 1,2 and 3 (because they have incredible, endlessly quotable dialogue that is a fun as hell to say) and we’d interject them (the Jesus Wept line was everything😂) at appropriate -and inappropriate 😉- moments and no one other than our circle would know what we were talking about, and it was like our secret knowledge-kind of like people who quote Star Wars to each other... but way cooler😂 and way more obscure. Hellraiser is based on a novella by one of my all time favorite authors, the legendary Clive Barker. Clive Barker in my opinion is one of, if not thee, greatest, most original, imaginative, incredibly detailed and brilliant fantasy horror writers of all time. If you’ve never read his novels and story collections, you’ve been missing out big time. Check out the Books Of Blood Vol. 1&2, Imajica, and The Great And Secret Show, and go from there. Hellraiser is based on Barker’s novella “The Hellbound Heart”. But he’s written a lot of novels and collections. He’s a very prolific writer. As well as being an incredible artist that does his own illustrations in his novels, anthologies and short stories. I love Stephen King’s novels as you do, and King is a master in his own right. But Clive Barker is truly on a whole other level. I’ve yet to find a horror writer his equal. Once one reads his works, he becomes the gold standard horror author all others are held up to 😉 start by reading The Books Of Blood. And be prepared to be blown away. One note- the cenobites and the box didn’t take you to either heaven or hell. The box didn’t open heaven at all. The premise is that for some people, hell and pain IS THEIR HEAVEN. Seekers of pain for pleasure, for those who can’t get enough on earth and want to go further, have the ultimate pleasure. But then, they take your soul and torture you forever. Until there is no pleasure left, only the pain. Which was more than Frank bargained for. This movie and its premise is original and unexpected, it pushes boundaries (even today) as it touches on a lot of taboo themes and subjects with total abandon. Remember- this is 1987! This movie is decades ahead of its time. That’s a credit to the genius of Clive Barker. He finds the beauty in the horrific. He finds the art in the macabre. There is a kind of elevated poetry to his written works, where he uses elegant language and beautiful prose to describe horrific things. And he always finds the beauty in the monsters and the horror in mankind. He’s brilliant. He touches on themes no one else would touch. And no one in the genre is as original as he is. So, if you take anything from this movie, it should be IF YOU SEE A METAL PUZZLE BOX, LEAVE IT THE HELL ALONE 😂

Great reaction! I also suggest the following: The Exorcist, The Omen, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Terminator (technically it's scifi action but has alot of horror tropes in it), Predator, Alien, Aliens, Poltergeist, Carrie, Cujo, Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Child's Play, Gremlins, The Thing... Man I watched way too many horror movies growing up. Kinda explains alot 🤪

The best part of your videos are both of your facial reactions, they crack me up! Keep up the videos!

I like the way you guys edited this. The plot actually of this batshit crazy movie actually made sense.

you guys should check out Jacob's Ladder (1990 version, not the crappy remake).

You guys are pretty much my age and are watching these horror movies for the first time and I basically grew up watching all of them. Im pretty sure that what's wrong with me now 😂 but I am glad you are taking the time to watch them and filming your reactions. These are truly classics and legends in horror.

Please react to the sequel 'Hellbound: Hellraiser II' next!

I was about 12 when I saw this movie for the first time, 28 years ago and have loved this and the first sequel (don’t watch III and beyond) ever since. Another great reaction video. At times I’m a bit envious you’re getting to enjoy this classics for first time been a while for me since I saw a classic for the first time.

Yes! Nightmare on Elm Street and Hellraiser are my two favorite horror movies of all times. Clive Barker, the director of Hellraiser wrote the book it is based on called "The Hellbound Heart". He is a brilliant horror writer and a very talented painter too. And he also wrote Candyman, another horror gem I hope you watch soon. I love your reactions by the way. You guys are so fun and nice and friendly. I'm enjoying your videos so much.

And people think Paranormal Activity is scary. Ha ... ha ..hahahahahahaha!

After that movie, you fellas could use a laugh. Watch yourselves Young Frankenstein and you'll get that laugh. But for ones a little more balanced into the horror genre, An American Werewolf In London, and Gremlins, are fun watches.

I grew up watching and enjoying late 70’s/80’s horror and watched this film a year after it was released at 11 years old and it was the only movie that actually scared the shit out of me!! Bravo 👏

Aside from the unpardonable sin of turning Hellraiser into a comedy, this was a spectacular reaction! :D

Little detail on the side: Old daddy here in this movie is a certain Cardassian spy disguised as a human... ;)

Your reactions are awesome - this was super entertaining to watch! You do have to do Hellraiser 2 as well though, as the first 2 are a set and follow on from each other (the rest can safely be ignored).

Remembered some of these makeup are pre-CGI with some of the best makeup artists in the business at that time worked on this movie. That Puzzled Box can be known as Pandora's Box too. As you seen here, when it opens, it also opens access to Hell.

I'm loving the movie choices and the reactions. Keep it up guys.

This movie is one of the main reasons why my father hates horror movies. He was never a big fan of them but he would still watch them with us. When he saw this movie his exact words were "Normal people do not make movies like this." I love Clive Barker and Doug Bradley is the only Pinhead for me. Did you know there is a first-person shooter, horror survival video game designed by Clive Barker? It is called "Jericho" and it was one of my favorite horror experiences. Nothing special to write home about just classic Clive Barker horror and suspense.

Really like the channel, if you haven't seen it you should check out The Fly, In the Mouth of Madness, Jacob's Ladder, Angel Heart, The Fog, and The Exorcist (the theatrical version not the extended re-release)

I normally don't really enjoy react videos but this was very entertaining and non-overacted like most are! Cheers!

You guys should try the George Romero zombie trilogy. Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1978), and Day of the Dead (1985). They're the birth of the modern zombie genre.. and Night is public domain.. though you might wanna look for a remastered version.. since a lot of copies floating around are pretty banged up.

Oh man. I've loved Pinhead since I actually walked in the wrong theater my senior year when this came out. I think we were planning on seeing some comedy and I'm glad we made a mistake. Still my favorite horror movie ever and love watching people see it for the first time.

Hellraiser is the real shit, pure uncut 80's horror.

I remember seeing this movie back in the day. It was shocking and suspenseful. The Cenobites freaked me out.

Check out The Hitcher movie from the 80s you'll like it.

one of my favorite movies , sadly not many people know about this movie and the ones that do some havent even finish watching it. its a classic for me a true original classic horror movie. Edit: event horizon also one of my top favorite horror movies, also an original also a classic horror movie.

I think out of all the 80’s horror films. Hellraiser had my favorite score.

Andrew Robinson who played Larry (Kirstie's dad) in the film also was the Scorpio Killer in the first Dirty Harry Movie. Also a franchise you should consider covering.

The husband character is the same actor as the villain in "Dirty Harry".

I love the looks on your faces at the end. Just blankly staring processing it all. Such a great movie

0:55 -- Clive Barker's a Brit. Just FYI. Born and raised in Liverpool.

you struck gold doing this type of channel, you are in for some classic movie gems, I watch these when i was a kid nostalgia! congrats

Please react to Brain Dead by Peter Jackson ("Dead Alive" in America)

Fantastic reaction, few words, i love to see the reaction by the faces

Watch "The Thing" it has amazing practical effects.

I subbed after JUST this vid. You guys are great. Entertaining. Real. Thanks for this!

Highly recommend the Peter Jackson classic, Dead Alive ! after you watch Hellraiser 2 of course, if you thought Hellraiser 1 was crazy.... holy crap....

Oh man, the dad played Elim Garak in Star Trek Deep Space Nine one of my favorite characters in the franchise.

I so want a lament configuration puzzle box as an ornament.

You guys facial expressions are priceless and your enthusiasm is contagious, it makes me wish your videos were longer. Another stellar reaction......good job👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏. I'm gonna throw in another bid for BASKET CASE 1982.

You need to watch Hellraiser 2 as it follows on from this one.

Your faces at the end of the movie. I AM CRYING! LOL!

Wow, I can't believe someone did a reaction to Hellraiser! It's one of my all-time favorite horror films, but never gained the popularity of some of its contemporaries. This is my first visit to your channel (thanks to the youtube algorithm, I suppose). I'll have to go watch your Nightmare on Elm Street reaction, as that's another of my favorites. I hope you decide to come back and do Hellraiser 2, which IMO was just as good as this one, and has more of the Cenobites (the demons, led by Pinhead) in it. Though you should stop at that point, it's really not worth watching any of the rest after that. I haven't looked to see what else is on your channel yet, so forgive me if this is already done, but if not, a very underrated film from the same era that's worth giving a look is Phantasm.

This was such a unique movie, I was pulled into the story, right from the start.

Andy Robinson is the Scorpio killer in Dirty Harry. In the book the house is in Liverpool but it was Americanised to sell better there.

I love the guy who plays the Scorpio killer in Dirty Harry. One of cinemas great psychos! Lol. Andrew Robinson. The bit in Dirty Harry where he bottles the liquor store owner after telling him that he scares easy is priceless! So funny.

19:07 awkward silence!

Watched it as a kid... Its stillin my head after 20 years... :D