Hellraiser : Deusdaecon Reviews 

The reason the "wearing Larry's skin" thing worked in the book because frank and Rory, Larry's book counterpart, were twins

To be fair, my father goes running to my mother to show her every injury he gets, usually while laughing at the whole situation.

The box was always yours. The money, on the other hand, was always mine.

Been watching your Hellraiser film reviews in reverse order, that way they get better the further I go on 😀🖒

The old man selling the puzzle box in the opening sounds a whole lot like the old man who sold Homer the cursed Krusty doll in one of the Halloween 'Treehouse of Horror' Simpsons episodes.

Pinhead: "This isn't for your eyes" *a few moments later* Pinhead: "We have such sights to show you." 🤔🤔🤔🤔

As someone who's never even seen these movies before (and being lazy while still wanting to investigate), Pinhead is recognizable even to me. Really says something about the iconic nature of it.

"today were tackling the killer office chair movies" gasp "just kidding it's hellraiser" damnit man. when are the killer office chair movies going to get their due?

I have an 18" Pinhead statue, which utters all the classic lines from the movie. And it wasn't cheap. Today, it sells for around $400. Dedication to Horror Classics!

I always interpreted Frank saying "Come to Daddy" to Kirsty and her immediately recognizing that it was him as some kind of implication that Frank did some questionable things to Kirsty when she was a young girl. But since nothing else about him seems to show an attraction to young girls I would never say that it was intentional.

I like the dream with the bloody sheet, the feathers and and child crying just because it's a horrid trio of impressions, even if the corpse is very rubbery. It doesn't have to make sense. It's like that nasty whistling noise the flower-TV makes in the hospital room just before the bell tolls and the Cenobites arrive: it's arty and pointless but it's also surprisingly unpleasant and effective in the very general sense of making you feel like something is going fundamentally very wrong with the normal fabric of the world.

I think I figured out why pinhead became the main bad guy in future films. His design is simplistic yet disturbing in some way. It also represents the feeling of pain and pleasure with the pins in his head in the leather referencing BDSM. Also you could hear pinhead more clearly than the other centabytes. Think about it the chatterer cinebike doesn't talk just bites at practically nothing (hence the name) the female can talk but her voice is so distorted that you can barely understand what she's saying and believe me I've watched the film and the chubby cinebike with the sunglasses (sorry don't know all their names off hand plus it's been a while since I seen the full movie) doesn't talk either. Finally we have the cinebike creature in the hallway that seems more like a pet or something like that. I should also mention Doug Bradley's performance is phenomenal and plus the way he says his lines with such conviction and passion. To think Doug Bradley was going to originally play an extra in the movie as one of the movers really shocks me.

Been sick at home and have been on a Marathon with this guy. Absolutely love his shows. Especially the horror movie reviews

Been a horror fan since I was 5-6 (I'm 30 now). Love seeing people with the same passion and feeling the nostalgia. Subscribed. Oh, and Dark Souls

anyone notice the winged beast scribbled on the wall at the end suggesting that the seller is the winged beast doing the boxes bidding

"No one make a joke about Jesus coming out of the closet." I lost it there. XD

I have to assume Julia had a conversation with Frank off screen before she brought her first victim home, where he explains it has to be human. Otherwise why is Juilia so reticent when she already jumped to murder, rather than say, acquiring animal blood or catching animals.... there lots of rats and bugs around.

I always took the rats to be the way Frank got some supplemental blood. His skinning the rat while he watches Julia on the bed was his way of saying "I could kill Larry right now... but I won't. But this rat is all I have until you bring me more men, so hurry or next time Larry won't be so lucky".

I like how in depth your reviews are and the humour you put in. I love Hellraiser, still creeps me out now.

I think Frank nailed the rats to the wall for their blood. They’re small so they didn’t help regenerate him, they were like a snack so he’d be in less pain for the moment.

Your reviews are the tits. Loving the Hellraiser ones. Keep 'em coming, fella.

That music during the Frank's sort of reconstitution scene...all I can hear in my mind is the intro to Old Harry's Game; great music.

"What the hell's that?" My elderly mother every time her smart phone rings even though she had heard it ring 7,000 times.

Despite Pinhead being a horror icon he's never the antagonist as he only pops up whenever the box is open.

you know what I thought of what if someone would take the Hellraiser Comics and make them into a Animated series (R rated of course)

You know MOST slasher movies have women fighting back.. The screaming running chick is a cliche that's Raley used, even in the 80s

I love this review! You do such a great job. They are always funny and interesting. It got me to sit down and watch the first two movies for the first time and I love them. 😊

I'm one of those people who likes to analyse movies to death so I have a ball with the symbolism in these movies and genuinely do see the first one as an art piece. The creator might think differently but that's the thing about art. It's subjective. It's supposed to be. Supposed to get people thinking. Supposed to get people wondering if it's actually worthy of thinking. I dunno. Maybe it's just bollocks, but I think it's ok for movies to act profound as long as they earn the profundity...and this one does for me/

"U Want A Cookie Little Girl(Freddy Krueger voice)". Best of the movie lol

Seriously, love that band as your intro !!!!, Currently benge watching your channel and I love it ! Focus on the cartoon thumbnail, the intro, and your format for information is spot on. :)

no joke i went your channel looking for this playlist and it was on the top like "oh here you go we were expecting you"

I came across your channel a good while ago and recently came back to it I have got to hand it to you I honestly believe you are one of the best movie reviewers I have seen in a long time keep up the good work

I don't know why you gave up that intro bruh but for awhile a couple years ago I was a little obsessed with that song and your vids, both of you are super underrated, and as an aside half the comments on DIE! SHE SAID's video is from your fans, that's fucking awesome! \m/ EDIT: I'm watching this again for nostalgia, these were simpler times.

The lightning affect that is hand drawn has always had a so bad it's good kind of quality for me. Giving it a more otherworldly eldritch energy quality over simple electricity.

If I remember correctly, in the book Kristi brains frank with the box before throwing it through the window.

With how far you've come as a channel, I feel like you should cover this film again, and it's direct sequel. I'm interested to see your fresh take on it

You know what stresses me out looking at your bookshelves I know this is like 4 years old but looking at the bow of that top shelf my Lord!

I really wish somebody could make a good film about the cenobites, I feel like this is the only one that actually does them similar to in he novella which is the most interesting interpretation of them, it would be great to actually get to know them more as characters, perhaps doing their normal pain/pleasure where they live. The more they just become "demons who torture people" the more boring they become.

Thank you so much for this review. I finally saw this one for my 30th bday last year and I second what you said I love this movie! Morally neutral antagonist ( I guess) are very rare in movie. They looked so creepy and yet there ethics made perfect sense. Although I wouldn't open the box, unless I was really drunk.

Never saw these movies, thanks for the reviews.

“Walked up a flight of stairs, Who would do that?!?”I once nailed my hand with a nail gun and drove 50 minutes to my wife’s job covered in blood and boogies just to show her what I did.

When he turned on the kitchen light and found the rotting food I dropped my phone in disgust lol

For the past two yrs almost every month I watch this playlist lol

I remember watching Hellraiser during AMC's Halloween horror marathons they had way before TWD was ever aired. It kinda shocked me because they never censored "f*ck" from the scene when the guy says "you're not changing your f*cking mind" and the movie was playing during the daylight. Oopsy lol

I watched all nine hellraiser reviews. I watched all of them. I started at hellraiser 3 and kept going.... I watched the reviews of hellraiser 3 to 9 all in one evening... So when I watched the hellraiser 9 review I had been on a journey of just seeing the francise completely trashed. The reason I was watching these reviews in the first place - yeh, I was having a debate with someone about politics and philosophy, someone who wanted to try and tell me what pain was, someone who clearly had no idea and hellraiser came to mind. After hellraiser 9 I went back to hellraiser 2 and 1. I've only seen 1 to 3 of the actual films... I am living the rest of the franchise like all of us... Good reviews. I managed to avoid saying your reviews tore my soul apart.

The score was beautiful- it reminded me of Mary poppins when frank comes out of the floor boards.😂👍I love the movie too and your show. Good work, thanks again.

I forgot about the music in the gooey floor emerging scene so for a moment I thought you were messing about. The same music cue is used on Old Harry's Game, the Andy Hamilton radio comedy about Satan.

I do agree with you about seeing the forest through the trees.

Have you checked out the Leviathen documentary? It's a 3 disc masterpiece!

Still best review channel on RU-vid

Having read the novela I really want to know more about The Engineer who's the real leader in the story. Even though I enjoyed The Scarlet Gospels I wish Barker would write a story just about The Engineer.

one of my very fav horror movies of all time both this and hellbound have a dark fairy tale feel to it....its fucked up lol.

When will you be reviewing the "Killer Office Chair " movie?

Question: when Julia opens the box, why do they decide to take Kirsty?

I'm stupid but if Frank opened the box to experience pain, pleasure and sensations beyond our comprehension and then get's pulled into their realm, why would he want to escape? It's not torture in that sense and even in the end he seemed to get off on it. Did he just get bored?

hey, if you dont mind me asking, when u uploaded this review, was it blocked in any country cause of copyright? or is it visible in all?

10:57 Maybe it's a nod back to "Little Shop of Horrors" (the original film not the musical)

Fact: The Scene Was Cut From The MPAA to give an X rated Appeal To R Rating 24:59

Speaking of killer office chairs, will we get a review of Killer Sofa (2019) by chance?

Do they ever go into detail about how someone escapes the Cenobites? It seemed pretty easy for Frank, as all he needed was someone to bleed on where he was killed and he's just crawls out.

the only time I jumped was when the Jesus statue appeared nfnjknsdjk

I like your review, this is still and always will be my favorite horror film, novella and sound track. It does work in almost every aspect even now, the weirdness is what makes it work. What gets me is the Zodiac gets it in Hellraiser. "Freaks"-1932 Tod Browning is my second "Phantasm" my third. "The Possession of Hannah Grace" took parts of "Hellraiser" it doesn't work for me.Christopher Young composed the scores to "Hellraiser", "Sinister" and "Drag Me To Hell".

I think some of the more "artsy" parts of the movie that you speak about, relate closer to Clive Barkers Novella.

I think Mr Daecon will like the new Hellraiser.

11:29 his face after that was priceless

Animal blood is a solid idea. Julia and Frank were extremely short sighted.

"Demon to some, Angel to others" never made sense outside of the short story. Pinhead and the Cenobites are pretty much demons, then eventually evolve into slasher killers as the series gradually began to stink, to everybody they encounter. The films, for me, utterly fail to characterise them as these "grey" beings.

"Surprise Jesus" XD

I was a teen when these came out and I never saw them at the time. I always felt that these were the high honor horror, then I saw this about 2 years ago and made it thru maybe 10 minutes before turning it off. I was so mad because this movie was so bad that I assumed it was like the 5th or 6th one, and they ran out of story. The guys in my school spoke all the time about these movies!

How do I watch your older reviews , the link always takes me to time warner

Anyone know whats the poster on the right side?

awwwww you should've played the motor head song at the end credits :(

15:16 I always assumed Frank has molested he and he had said come to daddy before doing so

When Pinhead confronts Frank at the end, he gives off strong predatory vibes.

If the nail had been on the landing or bedroom doorway, It would have been less unusual.

11:28 best WTF face ever

I always viewed the peeling of the rat's skin as foreshadowing how he peeled Larry's skin to wear as a suit.

Dude I just noticed the drawing on the wall when Frank buys the box looks like the creature that come and take the box at the end. Not looking to deep just think it's funny I noticed it in the review rather then the movie

Obviously the flowers are a reference to Voltaire's classic work candide, where our hero rejects the enlightenment and learns that the flower garden is a metonymy for mans defiance of...aw fuck it. It's a fucking flower. Nothing more

I still think it would have been better sticking closer to the book and having the Cenobites not renege on their deal at the end. It would have kept more with the idea of Frank being the real baddy, and kept the Cenobites as an interesting "angel to some daemon to others", that follows their religious rules, and like in the book leave her as they know she'll call them again on her own one day.

What is the name of the song at the beginning

Personally, the biggest problem I had with this film was all the dubbing Of American accents on British actors.

This could be me reaching but I think Julia's devotion to Frank could be explained away through BDSM after all BDSM is a aspect to the hellraiser lore so maybe the idea is that Julia is a massive submissive and loves the idea of a really dominant controlling man. I mean as you said it is to a bit of an extreme however I have seen just how far some BDSM relationships can go I mean just look at masochist characters.

I'm probably too late but no one tell him the made a 10th film

I'm surprised you never mentioned how they dubbed over human Frank's voice because of his English accent.

At 16:34 chance the rapper?

6:18 uh it may very well surprise you but but knife and cnc kinks exist. It's just a bit weird but that does seem to be the kind of thing they are into.

Deusdaecon Reviews - have you read any of the BFI classics books? Long essays, basically. After your comment about pseudo-intellectual analysis, I'd be interested in knowing your thoughts on the ones I've read (Jaws, Pulp Fiction, Silence of the Lambs..).

And.... SURPRISE JESUS

frank and Julia are like Harley and the Joker

1:55 "Those who live in sweat-boxes should not throw stones"

So, the cenobites are like slaanesh from warhammer 40k

All I hear is Garak

what’s your intro song?

The homeless guy was the guy that sold the box to Frank. Frank was so fucking hot it gave me wood back then.

Maybe someone can confirm or correct me here..... wasn’t Pinhead a woman in the original source material?

I know I'm SUPER late to the party. But after the 50th time seeing this review, I was thinking about Frank's last words. "Jesus wept" I wonder if he was actually making fun of Jesus' reaction to the pain (sensation). Like, he was enjoying it and thought it was funny that Jesus couldn't handle it. I dunno. Just a thought.

When Frank cuts the skin off the dead rat in front of Julia he is showing her what he's going to do to Larry.

16:22 I...I don't get it. Is the joke that it looks nothing like George Clooney?

22:29 Did... Kirsty really think that her father turned Frank into a molten skeleton? Also, would it have killed Pinhead to tell her what was going on? This is less sadomasochistic angel-demon from beyond our realm, and more douchebag!