6.6
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Hellraiser (1987)
Hellraiser (1987)
Overview
A hedonistic man finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons a group of gruesome beings known as the Cenobites. These otherworldly entities open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible.
Starring Cast
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Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Neutral
Viewer Rating
6.6
Overview
A hedonistic man finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons a group of gruesome beings known as the Cenobites. These otherworldly entities open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
Hellraiser is primarily a horror film exploring philosophical and existential themes of desire, pain, and the limits of human experience. Its central subject matter and the narrative's focus on individual transgression and its horrific consequences are apolitical, not aligning with specific left or right ideologies.
The movie features a predominantly white cast without explicit race or gender swaps of traditional roles. Its narrative focuses on themes of desire and horror, rather than offering a critique of traditional identities or explicitly incorporating DEI themes.
Secondary
Hellraiser explores themes of transgressive desire, pain, and pleasure through characters like Frank Cotton and the Cenobites, whose aesthetics and motivations resonate with queer and BDSM subcultures. The film delves into the nature of extreme, forbidden desires, presenting them as powerful and alluring yet ultimately destructive within a horror framework. It neither explicitly affirms nor denigrates LGBTQ+ identity, focusing instead on the consequences of pushing boundaries.
Hellraiser (1987) does not contain any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. While it explores body horror, transformation, and non-normative sexuality, these elements do not directly relate to transsexual identity or experiences as defined by the rubric.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The 1987 film adapted characters from Clive Barker's novella. While the lead Cenobite's gender was ambiguous in the source material, the film's portrayal established the widely recognized male version, rather than changing a previously explicit gender. No other main characters underwent a gender change from their source material.
The 1987 film "Hellraiser" adapts Clive Barker's novella "The Hellbound Heart." Neither the novella nor the film explicitly defines the race of its characters in a way that would lead to a race swap. All primary characters are portrayed by actors whose race aligns with the implied context of the source material, without any established racial identity being altered.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.9
6.9
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7.1
5.6
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