“Welcome to oblivion.” – Paul Merchant For this Retro Review I’ll be talking about the leaked workprint of Hellraiser: Bloodline, which in many ways is much better than the released version, but is still miles away from what filmmakers originally had in mind. Before I begin my review though, I’d...READ MORE...
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Whenever I watch Hellraiser: Bloodline I can’t help but feel a sense of loss. Not for myself, but for the makers of the movie. After the series went a little bit off the rails with Hell On Earth, the filmmakers were adamant to make a better movie that rose above...READ MORE...
For some reason when it comes to third films in a franchise that’s usually when a series starts to fall apart. Fresh ideas begin to run out and the films become very repetitive. Thankfully this never happened to the Hellraiser franchise and even though I may not have enjoyed a...READ MORE...
It’s rare to see a sequel top the original film that spawned it, but Hellbound: Hellraiser II does just that. Many sequels usually don’t take chances and play it safe. A lot of the time they want to mirror what made the original work so well, but never bring anything...READ MORE...
Hello Friends: By now, you’ve read the review of both disc one and two, here. Leviathan is a tremendous effort that spanned a few years of work and a successful Kickstarter and it accomplished nothing short of extraordinary. This is so far the definitive Hellraiser/Hellbound documentary that fans could ever...READ MORE...
Living in the world of Clive Barker this past year has been nothing but pure bliss. Imajica was everything all the fans said it would be. A book so in love with the imagination that it inspired me to start working on my own novel. Then I dove right into...READ MORE...
First, let me start out by saying this is a 3-disc set, of which the disc I’m reviewing has a running time of 4 hours 37 minutes! I didn’t even know a DVD could be that long without swapping discs. Peter Jackson, take note! It’s a whole new world of...READ MORE...
In this episode, Ryan, José and Rob talk about Clive Barker‘s The Scarlet Gospels. Give it a listen only if you’ve read it already, because there are spoilers. Oh the freedom! With special participation by friend, podcast listener & contributor to our previous hosting expenses fundraiser, Stephanie giving us her...READ MORE...
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Before I start this review I’d like to say thanks to Ryan Danhauser and Jose Leitao for helping me shape this review into what it is now. Without them I would constantly stumble and fall. Thank you. Wow what a rush! No, let me rephrase that again: FUCK, WHAT A RUSH!...READ MORE...
Hello Friends: It’s with great pleasure that I recently got an Advance Reader’s Edition of The Scarlet Gospels, the new long-awaited Clive Barker novel coming out on May 19th from St Martin’s Press; you can pre-order it from Macmillan, Amazon, and just recently it also became available for Special Pre-order at the...READ MORE...