I know what you're going to ask me (and presumably why you clicked on that review): is the book different enough from the movie for me to read it? What are the major differences, Ben? Why be just one thing when you can be everything? Then, Frank comes back and it becomes supernatural horror, a Hitchcockian thriller and body horror. The Hellbound Heart transforms into a Hitchcockian thriller when Frank disappear and it suddenly becomes Rory and Julia's story. When the Cenobites first appear, it sets the tone for a supernatural horror story, right? Extreme pleasure seeker, otherworldly creatures, classic set up. Whenever you think you've figured out where the scares are coming from, it throws you off and keeps you guessing. It veers out of its lane and redefined what horror was supposed to be, back then. And he will use the enraptured Julia to get it.Ĭlive Barker's early material is notorious for being extremely transgressive and The Hellbound Heart is no different. Namely, his brain, lungs and spine. Frank needs blood in order to be whole again. It's not really Frank who came back, though. The same wife Frank banged before their wedding. When he summons creatures from another realm who are "experts in pleasure", Frank drops from the face of the Earth only to be accidentally summoned back in the house his brother Rory shares with his wife Julia. The Hellbound Heart is the story of Frank Cotton, a soulless hedonist who travels the world seeking the greatest forbidden pleasures. It's called The Hellbound Heart, it's ridiculously short and it pretty much revolutionized horror when it came out.
Well, the entire Hellraiser mythos was based on a novella Clive Barker wrote and adapted himself into a movie. If you don't have the slightest idea what they are, you might've been stranded in a spaceship orbiting around the moon for the last thirty years. But everyone knows the Hellraiser movies and their poster boy Pinhead. The name Clive Barker is probably familiar to you, but you might not be able to pinpoint who he actually is. Then, after a pause: "I want to be out there. "There's no such thing as almost," he said, still staring out of the window.
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