Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.

Dismiss

FAQ: Hellraiser

0 views

Skip to first unread message

Mars

unread,

May 2, 1994, 12:29:39 AM5/2/94

New World Pictures in association with

Cinemarque Entertainment B.V. presents

A Film Futures production

A film by Clive Barker

HELLRAISER

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

compiled by Mario Moeller, 1993

Release 11

"Hell is what he wanted, and Hell is what he got."

01 Introduction
02 The movies
03 The characters
04 The box
05 FAQ
06 Unfilmed scenes
07 Video
a. Releases b. Goofs
08 Soundtracks
09 Literature
a. Books b. Comics
10 Merchandise
11 FAQ release (also information on how to get updated versions of the FAQ)

You can use your favourite editor or pager
to locate a section quickly by searching for >>[section]

You can also just search for >> to find the next section.

>>01 INTRODUCTION :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

"And to think; I hesitated."

Some of the best horror films ever produced, the Hellraiser series
have entertained many over the years, and have since spawned comic books,
plastic models, phone-cards, jigsaws, puzzle-boxes, masks, T-shirts and
tattoos. This FAQ list is intended to give away some of the secrets behind
the series, and also valuable information every Hellraiser fan would not
want to miss out on. I hope you find the FAQ both interesting and
enjoyable.

I'm open for discussion, and corrections and additions are ALWAYS sought!

e-mail me at: moe...@mundil.cs.mu.oz.au (Melbourne University, Australia)

>>02 THE MOVIES :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

:: Hellraiser ::::

"It will tear your soul apart."

NEW WORLD PICTURES in association with CINEMARQUE ENTERTAINMENT B.V. presents
A FILM FUTURES PRODUCTION A film by CLIVE BARKER

HELLRAISER

Starring ANDREW ROBINSON CLARE HIGGINS and introducing ASHLEY LAURENCE

Music by CHRISTOPHER YOUNG
Executive producers DAVID SAUNDERS CHRISTOPHER WEBSTER and MARK ARMSTRONG
Producer CHRISTOPHER FIGG Written and Directed by CLIVE BARKER

When Larry Cotton and his wife Julia move into an old family home, little
do they realize the terrors that await them. The odd atmosphere of the
attic room does not go unnoticed by Julia, and when Larry injures
himself, the blood spilled on the bare boards brings back the horrific
shadow of Frank - her ex-lover and Larry's brother.
He explains to her how, by solving a French puzzle box called the
Lament Configuration, he summoned spirits from the Outer Darkness.
His motive was the promise of untold physical sensuality, but when the
Cenobites came they brought pain as well as pleasure. Now Frank needs
more blood to make him whole again. Julia begins seducing men and
taking them back to the house, where she kills them with a hammer.
As Frank grows stronger, Larry becomes concerned with his wife's
odd behaviour and confides in his daughter, Kirsty.
Discovering her stepmother's secret, Kirsty escapes with the puzzle
box and raises the Cenobites. Once summoned, they are not prepared
to leave empty handed. They want her body and soul. But Kirsty
bargains with them. If she leads them to Frank she can go free.
Returning to the house, Kirsty is shown Frank's skinned corpse by
Julia and Larry. Her bargain with the Cenobites now apparently
rendered useless, he soul will be forfeit.
However, all is not quite as it appears to be. As the Cenobites return
to claim their prize, one final surprise has yet to be revealed before
events reach a spectacular and horrifying conclusion. . .

:: Hellbound ::::

"They will tear your soul apart. Again."

NEW WORLD PICTURES in association with CINEMARQUE ENTERTAINMENT (USA) LTD.
presents A FILM FUTURES PRODUCTION HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER II

Starring CLARE HIGGINS ASHLEY LAURENCE and KEN CRANHAM

Written by PETER ATKINS from a story by CLIVE BARKER
Director of Photography ROBIN VIDGEON B.S.C.
Executive Producers CLIVE BARKER & CHRISTOPHER WEBSTER
Produced by CHRISTOPHER FIGG Directed by TONY RANDEL

For Kirsty Cotton, the nightmares never end. Awakening as a patient
at the Channard Institute - a psychiatric hospital for the mentally
disabled - she recalls discovering the skinned corpse of her father,
watching the lifeforce sucked from the body of her murderous stepmother
and eluding the perverse pleasures of the demonic Cenobites.
Behind his veneer of cool proficiency, Doctor Channard conceals
deep and dark secrets. With the information he learns from Kirsty,
Channard has the blood-stained mattress upon which Julia died delivered
to his home. He has spent a lifetime collecting the secrets of the
Lament Configuration puzzle box, and now he is prepared to go to any
lengths to unlock the portals that lead into the Outer Darkness.
Using the blood of one of his more deeply disturbed patients,
Channard succeeds in releasing Julia's flayed spirit from the mattress.
In return for supplying innocent victims on which to feed and restore
her flesh, Julia will reveal to him the awesome powers which exist
beyond time and space.
Meanwhile, a vision of her skinned father manifests itself in Kirsty's
hospital room, entreating her to help him.
Along with another patient, the enigmatic Tiffany, who never speaks
but is adept at solving puzzles, Kirsty ventures beyond the limits into
Stygian corridors in an attempt to rescue her father from his eternal
torment. Her quest will once again set her against the dark desires
of Pinhead and the other Cenobites, and force her to confront the
awesome powers of their omnipotent master: Leviathan - the Lord of
Hell's Labyrinth. . .

:: Hellraiser III ::::

"Pinhead's back and this time he's brought some friends for the final
battle."

TRANS ATLANTIC ENTERTAINMENT presents A NOSTRADAMUS PICTURES PRODUCTION of
AN ANTHONY HICKOX FILM

HELLRAISER III: HELL ON EARTH

Starring TERRY FARRELL DOUG BRADLEY PAULA MARSHALL KEVIN BERNHARDT

The marbled features of Pinhead are amongst the writhing figures and
distorted faces etched into the surface of an intricately carved pillar
bought by rich and spoiled nightclub owned JP Monroe.
When Joey Summerskill, a young and ambitious television reporter,
witnesses the bizarre death of a teenage boy torn apart by chains in a
hospital emergency room, she discovers from the boy's trendy girlfriend,
Terri, that the chains emerged from a small puzzle box which the boy stole
from the pillar displayed in JP's club.
While Joey and Terri investigate the origins of the puzzle box, JP
accidentally spills a few drops of blood on the pillar, releasing the
imprisoned soul of Pinhead. Finally freed from the pillar by JP's
hedonistic greed, Pinhead walks the earth again in an orgy of blood and
desire, creating an army of new Cenobites from the transmutated flesh
of his victims to reclaim the box and set him free from the powers of
Hell forever.
Through video tape interviews with Kirsty Cotton recovered from the
Channard Institute, Joey and Terri learn about the demonic Cenobites and
the power of the Lament Configuration box, the only means of sending Pinhead
back into the Outer Darkness.
Joey, whose dreams are tortured by recurring visions of her dead father,
and Terri, who would give anything to dream at all, are all that stand in
Pinhead's way; and before the battle between good and evil reaches a final,
incredible confrontation, dreams become reality as they receive help
from a very unexpected source. . .

:: Hellraiser IV ::::

Officially, this one is on the way, but any news surrounding this film
is rather hushed at the moment. Naturally, any details that come to hand
will be placed in the FAQ. Here's the most recent statement by Clive;

I know a lot about Hellraiser IV because I've put a plot together for them.
What I can say is that it will not resemble any of the Hellraisers that
proceeded it. There will be, I have to be very careful here because is it
such a long way away that I don't want to give too much away, but it's
constructed in a way that none of the previous Hellraisers have been
constructed. Pinhead is still in it of course. It is hopefully going
to be a no holds barred horror movie. There is some stuff going down in the
movie that if we pull it off will be very fresh.

>>03 THE CHARACTERS :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

"No, no, this one didn't escape. You told me you'd always been in Hell.
You were wrong. Look at it. Look. It's you. It's you! You haven't
always been as you are. You were human. Remember. Remember all
your confusions. Think! You were all human!"

:: Hellraiser / Hellbound ::::

Larry Cotton (Andrew Robinson) : Kirsty's father, married to Julia
Julia Cotton (Clare Higgins) : Larry's wife
Kirsty Cotton (Ashley Laurence) : Larry's daughter. Main character
Frank Cotton (Sean Chapman) : Larry's brother, and Julia's lover
Steve (Robert Hines) : Kirsty's boyfriend (Hellraiser)
Dr. Channard (Kenneth Cranham) : Surgeon, Channard Institute (Hellbound)
Tiffany (Imogen Boorman) : Patient in Channard Institute (Hellbound)
Kyle (William Hope) : Nurse at the Channard Institute (Hellbound)
Browning (Oliver Smith) : "Get them off me!" patient (Hellbound)
Ronson (Angus McInnes) : Homicide officer (Hellbound)

Pinhead (Doug Bradley) : Lead Cenobite
Chatterer (Nicholas Vince) : Chattering Cenobite
Butterball (Simon Bamford) : Cenobite with dark glasses
Female Cenobite : The female cenobite
(Grace Kirby - Hellraiser)
(Barbie Wilde - Hellbound)

:: Hellraiser III ::::

Joey Summerskill (Terry Farrell) : The lead girl
Pinhead/Elliot (Doug Bradley) : Pinhead / Elliot
Terri (Paula Marshall) : JP's girlfriend
JP Monroe (Kevin Bernhardt) : Nightclub owner
Doc/Camerahead (Ken Carpenter) : TV Cameraman
Joey's Father (Peter Boynton) : Soldier in Vietnam

CD the DJ (Brent Bolthouse) : CD Cenobite
Rick / Barbie (Peter Atkins) : The barman

:: Did you know? :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

* Skinless Julia and Frank were actually both played by different
actors than their human twin.

* The female Cenobite was played by different actors in Hellraiser and
Hellbound.

* Dr. Channard's original script name was Dr. Malahide.

* Butterball's glasses hide his eyes, which are sewed shut.

* Peter Atkins (writer) stars a cameo in Hellraiser III as the barman,
while Anthony Hickox stars a cameo in the same film as a soldier
in Vietnam.

>>04 THE BOX ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

"The box. I don't know where it came from. I don't know who made it
or why. I only know what it does. It hurts. It hurts. I don't
know. It kind of opens itself. Your fingers move. You learn. It
wants to open, that's the thing. And it know when you want to open it.
And it helps. And it opens. And then they come. The Cenobites.
The demons. You might think it's delusion, but it's not. I saw them.
I looked into their eyes and they looked back at me. Creatures
from Hell."

The puzzle box featured in the Hellraiser films is called Lemarchand's box,
constructed by a master craftsman. The movies refer to it as the Lament
Configuration, which is a way to raise hell. Literally. The riddle
associated with the box is that if you solve the seemingly impossible
puzzle, your any whim and pleasure will be met. You will be taken to the
boundaries of your pleasure, and beyond.

But if subjected to too much of a certain pleasure, it isn't a pleasure
anymore. In the original novella, Frank, upon solving the box, is given
his every sexual pleasure except that every bodily sense of his becomes
affected - and it doesn't stop there. His sensations became higher still,
until it became painful, and he begged to stop. Hell is what he wanted,
and hell is what he got.

(from the novella):

"As it was, they had brought incalculable suffering. They had overdosed
him on sensuality, until his mind teetred on madness, then they'd
initiated him into experiences that his nerves still convulsed to recall.
They called it pleasure; and perhaps they'd meant it. Perhaps not.
It was impossible to know with these minds; they were so hopelessly,
flawlessly ambiguous. They recognized no principles of reward and
punishment by which he could hope to win some respite from their tortures,
nor were they touched by any appeal for mercy. He'd tried that, over the
weeks and months that separated the solving of the box from today."

>>05 FAQ ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Didn't open the box. And what was it last time? Didn't know what
the box was. And yet we do keep finding each other, don't we?
Perhaps you're teasing us. Are you teasing us? No more delays,
Kirsty. No more teasing. Time to play."

:: Hellraiser ::::

Q: What is the address of the house?

66 Lodovico Street.

Q: Who is the Engineer?

The Engineer is the creature (looks a little like a scorpion) that chases
Julia through the corridor in hell just before she meets the cenobites
in the hospital room. We see the Engineer later in the movie right at
the very end, when it it tries to grab the box from Kirsty.

Q: Julia dies in Frank's arms, but how does her body end up on the mattress?

This is a very difficult question, and is certainly not answered by
the movie. The original script does not include the scene of Julia
lying on the mattress; instead a trail of blood leads from the hallway
into the dining room, where there stands the bride, her white dress
soaked in blood, her veil covering her face. Kirsty says "Julia?",
and takes a step towards her, but as she does so the veil rises
of its own accord, and Chatterer is beneath. Kirsty slams the box closed
and Chatterer disappears.

The most plausible solution, however, relates to what Kirsty says in
Hellbound; "Frank left her for the Cenobites", and how they killed her
and left her on the mattress. This makes some sense - Julia aided Frank's
'escape', so one would assume the Cenobites would want to kill her too.

Q: Kirsty pries the box from Julia's arms - how does it get there?

The movie contains an error here - the script sees Kirsty picking up
the box up from the stairs.

:: Hellbound ::::

"It is not hands that call us . . . it is desire."

Q: What's all this gossip about Hellbound being incomplete? Half re-filmed?

The only people that can fully explain the story behind Hellbound
are Cinemarque Entertainment Ltd., but, in the original script
Larry is actually in Hell, and Kirsty ends up rescuing Larry.

Larry must have pulled out half way through the film, because
the version filmed sees only Frank in Hell, and not both Larry
and Frank. Basically, Hellbound doesn't make much sense at all, if
you analyze the movie closely. The scripted version, which makes
total sense, sees Kirsty rescue Larry from Hell, who, once back at the
Channard Institute, falls deadly ill and needs to be operated on
(surgeon's scene). Meantime Kirsty kills the Cenobites (this bit is the
same), but instead of her and Tiffany walking into the sunset, it is only
Tiffany that does so -- Kirsty stays behind at the end of the movie with
her father, who is making a rapid recovery in the hospital.

So think of it -- carefully. Plot wise Hellbound doesn't really reach
far, does it? Kirsty goes to Hell, doesn't find Larry, and comes back,
with a few Cenobites less. Such a shame.

Q: What does the hall of mirrors which Tiffany sees strange visions in
mean?

An unfilmed, but scripted scene towards the start of the film, shows
Tiffany escaped the institute, closely being chased by staff. A carnival
is near the institute, where Tiffany sneaks herself into the Hall of
Mirrors. It is night though, and the place is deserted. Tiffany likes
to escape here because of her liking of patterns and puzzles. She's
always caught though, and returned to the institute. Later, in Hell,
Tiffany once again encounters the same Hall of Mirrors, where she sees
visions of her mother being abducted by Dr. Channard.

Q: Is the person who writes "I am in hell...help me" Larry or Frank?

The person was originally intended to be Larry, whom Kirsty was going
to find, and rescue from Hell. As this bit was unfilmed, the viewer
is led to believe that the person was actually Frank, impersonating
Larry, and tricking Kirsty into go to Hell.

Q: Do Kirsty and Kyle hit it off?

Yes, in the original script they do. But this was never filmed.
Kirsty was to actually spends the night at Kyle's place, and
kiss him in a certain scene.

Q: Chatterer and Chatterer II - what's the difference?

An important part cut from Hellbound, down in the corridors of Hell,
shows Chatterer in Hell's equivalent of a beauty salon, being re-made.
This involves the scar tissue being manually peeled from the upper
part of his face to reveal beneath, small, vicious, human eyes.

:: Did you notice? :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

* When Dr. Channard is walking to the institute you hear the wheelchair
patient continually exclaim "105 years! 105 years!". The next shot you
see him mutter "105 years and he still doesn't know my name!".

>>06 UNFILMED SCENES ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Sad, huh? She's been here six months. A complete mystery. No family.
No visitors. She's completely alone. A nurse named her Tiffany.
She never speaks. All she does is solve puzzles. All the time.
Dr. Channard feels it may be a good thing. Maybe, beneath her
withdrawal, she's putting something in order."

The original scripts for both Hellraiser and Hellbound feature scenes
that are different, or missing from the films. This will give you an
insight into how the films were originally intended to be.

:: Hellraiser ::::

:: [Kirsty works at a pizza shop instead of a pet shop. This is a scene
where she meets Steve at the pizza shop.]

CUSTOMER 1: Excuse me, Miss --
CUSTOMER 2: I'd like some more lager.
CUSTOMER 1: Miss!
KIRSTY : In a moment!
CUSTOMER 2: Did you hear me?

STEVE : Hey, sex-bomb --

KIRSTY : You keep your -- <sees Steve>
: Oh <smiles> Hi.
STEVE : I just called in. How about tonight?
KIRSTY : I don't finish till twelve.
STEVE : I'm a late riser.

CUSTOMER 2: What do you have to do to get some service around here?
STEVE : Catch you later

:: [when Kirsty meets the Cenobites in the hospital, she is alone. In the
original script, Steve is there too.]

CENOBITE : You solved the box. We came. Now you must come with us.
Taste our pleasures.
KIRSTY : Don't touch me!

KIRSTY : Steve. Thank God you came.
STEVE : What happened to you?

KIRSTY : These things . . . they want to take me.
STEVE : What things?
CENOBITE : He doesn't see us, or hear us. We belong to you Kirsty.
And you to us.
KIRSTY : No!
STEVE : What's wrong?
KIRSTY : Don't let them take me, Steve --
STEVE : I won't let anybody take you.

He starts to walk towards her, but the creature in the dark glasses
takes a hooked rod from its back and puts the hook to Steve's neck.
Steve's hand moves to the place; he makes a small sound of pain.
The Cenobite takes off its glasses, to see its trick better. The eyes
beneath are sewn shut. It pulls a little more on the hook. Steve winces.

F.CENOBITE: If he takes another step, we open his throat.
KIRSTY : <to Steve> Please go, Steve.
STEVE : What?
KIRSTY : Just go. Please. I'll be OK. I'm going to go see Dad.
He'll look after me -- <Steve leaves>
CENOBITE : It's time we were away.
KIRSTY : Let me alone, will you?
CENOBITE : No tears please. It's a waste of good suffering.

:: [different ending]

FRANK : Come to Daddy!

KIRSTY : Not tonight.

:: Hellbound ::::

:: [Different wording when Dr Channard is talking at the start (the bit
where he says "the mind is a labyrinth, ladies and gentlemen .. etc"]

CHANNARD: We can bring them back properly more often than scientific
orthodoxy dictates, ladies and gentlemen. And the knife, far
from the enemy of analysis, is often its greatest ally in solving
the puzzles of psychosis. Analysis isolates and massages.
Surgery pinpoints and corrects . . . though you've got to know
what you're doing, of course . . . some things are obvious. Here,
for example . . . are the optical motor nerve control centres.
Now. This case. A deeply-buried psychosis severe enough to
produce frighteningly frequent hysteria and aggression. Incurable.
Say others. Not so. Analysis isolates. The knife exposes.
Medication controls. And then, ladies and gentlemen, we REBUILD.
With all the care and knowledge that our years of training
have given us . . . WE BRING THEM BACK.

:: [When Kyle gives Kirsty the pills ("they're only to help you ... sleep!")
the dialogue is definitely different]

KYLE : Anyway, let's concentrate on you for a moment. Wanna suck on
this for me?

Kirsty looks up at him sharply. He is proffering a pill and grinning
facetiously.

KIRSTY : Hey, good joke, Kyle. Do you always come on to the mentally
ill?

Kyle's face falls. He blushes. Pressing the pills into Kirsty's hand,
he backs off to the door, apologizing.

KYLE : Shit. Sorry. Here's the pills. Red face. Door. Bye.

Kyle exists hurriedly, closing the door behind him. Kirsty grins.
She looks at the pill for a second or two and then puts it firmly back
in the box. Realising there is no bedside table, she puts the box on the
wooden chair.

KIRSTY : Jesus, I'm glad I'm not paying for this place.

:: [when Dr. Channard is bandaging Julia, we see her in a following shot
wearing a gown . . where does this come from?]

A scene missing is the shopping mall scene, where we see Dr. Channard
buy the gown, and return it to Julia, who looks in the mirror, trying
it on.

:: [just before Dr. Channard gets turned into a Cenobite, he tells Julia he
wants to go back.]

CHANNARD: Enough. God, that's enough. We HAVE to go back.
JULIA : Go back? What on Earth makes you think we can go back?
CHANNARD: I want to go back!
JULIA : Sorry, friend. No day trips to Hell. Here you are. Here you
stay. And forward the only way to go.

:: [Kirsty meets her father, Larry, in Hell]

When Kirsty walks through the door of 66 Lodovico Street in Hell,
instead of being in the 'burning room' where she meets Frank and Julia,
she finds herself in 'The Brother's' room, which is a plain room
with a small table on which lie a hand of cards and a soiled ashtray.
Over the far wall is a mattress, and to the side of this is a latticed
wooden screen, hiding Frank and Larry who are joined form the elbow
down to the wrist like that of siamese twins. When they see Kirsty,
they begin to fight; at one stage their free hands each have hold of
the other man by the throat and are rolling along one of the walls,
each trying to establish some dominant grip. They smash violently
against one of the walls in the room, which gives and they fall
through into the next room, which is the 'Knife Room'.

The Knife Room is a small room, and, with the exception of
the doorway to the 'Brother's room', every inch of the walls is covered
with sharp and deadly-looking double-bladed knives (ie. one blade is
buried in the wall up to a central hilt/handle and the other blade
just out menacingly into the room)

FRANK: How convenient.

(Kirsty comes through and gasps as she sees the walls.)

LARRY: Stay there baby. Don't come in.
FRANK: Yes. Stay there. I'll be with you in a minute.

(Larry and Frank trade blows)

Larry manages to impale Frank onto the knives, and then pulls a knife
from the wall and with one vicious slice, separates himself from his
brother. At this stage, Julia enters and says her bit about the family
reunion. Larry and Kirsty manage to leave, and Julia pulls Frank's heart
out (this part is the same as in the movie).

Larry, Kirsty, and Tiffany make their way back to the hospital (this
all is exactly the same way as the movie, except with the addition of
Larry). They make it back into Tiffany's room at the hospital, where
the flowers which seemed to be in full bloom before their trip to Hell
now seem long dead (to appear that they have been in Hell for a VERY
long time). Larry then falls ill and collapses to the floor. Tiffany
rushes to the door and calls help, a minute later Larry is being wheeled
out to the elevator, and back down to the Maintenance level.

Larry is wheeled right down the corridor, through a set of double doors
at the end, which leads into the pre-op room. Another set of doors
is in this room in which Larry is wheeled, but Kirsty and Tiffany are
told to stay put.

As the doors close, Kirsty turns to Tiffany, expecting a long wait before
anyone comes to speak to them. Surprisingly, though, the doors open
again almost immediately and two figures step through. They are masked
and gowned in surgical green and very little of them is visible.

KIRSTY : Is he going to be all right?
SURGEON : No. He's not going to be all right.
KIRSTY : Wh..
SURGEON : No. He's going to die. He's got a ruptured aorta. He's going
to die in agony.

As he makes this speech, the mask of his colleague stains rapidly with
blood, as if it is literally pouring from its mouth. Simultaneously,
his own mask is slowly pierced by a score of nails bursting through from
beneath. The first surgeon pulls the mask and cap away from its face -
it is Pinhead. His colleague does the same. It is the female cenobite.

KIRSTY : Oh, fuck.

She's had too much experience with these two to hesitate. She grabs
Tiffany's arm and bursts through the double doors to the corridor.

As Kirsty and Tiffany are being chased by the Cenobites back to the
elevator, the overhead pipes begin to drip blood, instead of water. They
reach the elevator and tumble into it before the Cenobites manage
to catch them. They start going up in the elevator, and reach the
ground floor. As the elevator door opens, Chatterer lunges at them from
outside. Kirsty screams, but because of the eagerness of his lunge they
are able to get around him as his impetus carries him to the back of
the elevator. The doors begin to close, and Chatterer turns to come back
out at them, putting his hand out. The doors close on his fingers, and
slice them off.

Kirsty and Tiffany run back and the movie now continues from the scene
where the hospital ward is filled with patients trying to open the
box (and where the evil Dr. Channard comes through the window and says
"the Doctor is in").

:: [After Pinhead is killed and his throat sliced open, there is a small
scene as Kirsty and Tiffany burst out into the corridor and almost
fall over the patient in the wheelchair]

PATIENT: So what, girly? It's OK for an ego-trip but it just doesn't
get the job done.

Shaking their heads at the insanity, they run up the corridor.

:: [At the end when we see Kirsty and Tiffany walk up the garden path
out of the hospital, only Tiffany goes - Kirsty stays behind with
her father who is making a rapid recovery]

KIRSTY : So. What're you going to do? Open up a games-shop somewhere?
Sell jigsaw puzzles?
TIFFANY: Oh, yeah.
KIRSTY : Well . . . g'bye.
TIFFANY: It's been Hell.

Tiffany turns and walks down the long path to the hospital gates. Kirsty
turns and re-enters the institute. The camera tracks back to the window
of the recovery room and we watch through the window as Kirsty enters
the room. She bends to kiss her father's cheek. Larry slips an arm
around her shoulders and they embrace. The camera moves away again.

:: [Different ending; instead of the pillar rising out of the mattress,
Julia does!]

Julia is fully fleshed, fully skinned, and fully dressed. She is in
a replica of the dress Channard bought for her, but this one is jet
black. She looks fabulous. As the workman stands open-mouthed, her
feet clear the mattress. But they don't stop there. She slows to a
graceful halt about six inches above the mattress. She stretches and
flexes her arms sensually. Then her head swivels and her excited,
aroused eyes meet those of the workman.

JULIA: I'm Julia. Love me.

Suddenly, her head tips back and, accompanied by Julia's delighted
laughter, a wide beam of Hell's black light flies at the ceiling from her
open mouth. Instantaneously, it spills across the ceiling and falls,
like a fountain of blood, across the screen. Complete blackness, THE
CREDITS ROLL.

>>07 VIDEO ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

a. RELEASES

"The Doctor is in! Ah, girls. And how are we feeling today? You have
your whole lives behind you now. Surgery is open, Tiffany. What was
today's agenda? Ah, yes. Evisceration."

:: Hellraiser ::::

uncut - Extended gore scene when Julia kills one of her men, who pleads
for his life as she is about to hit him with the hammer.
(This is only about two to three seconds extra footage).

:: Hellbound ::::

Three releases exist;

cut - (1) Normal level of gore. Missing extra scene.

(2) Extended level of gore. Missing extra scene.

Extended gore sequences are:

* Dr. Channard Cenobite chops patient's hand off.
* Shot of a hammer nailing in Pinhead's nails.
* More detail when Pinhead has his throat slashed.
* More detail when Browning slashes himself with the razor.
* More detail when Tiffany experiences her flashbacks.

uncut - Extended level of gore.

Also features an extra scene where Kirsty, in Hell,
(immediately preceeding the spinning shot of her scream)
walking along a labyrinthine path, finds a door that opens
onto a normal-looking room she associates with her childhood;
a framed photograph of her parents is displayed on a bureau.
She admires the photo and looks yearningly at her mother.
After taking a short look around the room, she finds that
Julia has replaced her mother in the photo. Suddenly, it
begins to ripple and a bevy of cockroaches burst forth from
the frame. Roaches crawl forth from behind the bureau,
toppling it, and she screams. A subsequent short of Kirsty
running along a hellish path with Tiffany is also slightly
extended.

NO version contains the 'surgeon's scene'. The filming was never finished.

:: Hellraiser III ::::

uncut - Features brief extra footage of a topless girl dancing in
The Boiler Room, as well as two new scenes:

* Immediately after Terri moves out from Joey, there is a scene
inside the Boiler Room nightclub where a couple are seen buying
some drugs from a drug dealer. Terri is in the Boiler Room,
where she witnesses a couple in love, which makes her even more
lonely. Next, she purchases some coffee, and looks up to
see JP who says "Hey baby, glad you could make it." This
new scene ends here; next JP is seen telling Terri to "come
on in" to his room. (length of scene: 1:07).

* When Elliot tells Joey about his past, they are standing around
a campfire. There is a new scene immediately before the
footage from Hellriaser II (Elliot playing with box at start),
in which Elliot is seeen buying the box in an Indian bazaar
(this is brand new footage, and has not been reused).

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Country | Rating | Distributor | Catalogue | Release
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
UK | | | | cut
Japan LD | unrated | | | cut
US LD | unrated | Paramount Home Video | LV 15162 | uncut

b. MOVIE GOOFS

"Trick us again, child, and your suffering will be legendary even in Hell."

:: Hellbound ::::

(1) Scene where Dr. Channard is being turned into a Cenobite. He is
wearing a tie. On some frames when he is being injected with blue/red
fluid you see his buttons only, and he is not wearing a tie.

(2) Scene in Hell where Kirsty slams herself against a corridor wall as
she nearly gives up in desperation; Tiffany is with her. When she
hits the wall (twice), you can see the fake canvas wall move. Look
out for it, and it is really obvious.

:: Hellraiser III ::::

(1) Continuity error. When we see the person right at the start
explode on the hospital bed, there is a sequence of shots;
exploded -> still alive -> exploded. It somewhat spoils a rather
tense moment.

>>08 SOUNDTRACKS ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

"How can it send us back, child? We're already here. And so are you.
Oh, Kirsty; so eager to play, so reluctant to admit it. But, please;
feel free. Explore. We'll always be here . . we have eternity to
know your flesh."

THE UNRELEASED THEMES FOR HELLRAISER (UK / Coil / TORSO CD161) 17:23

Contains 6 ambient tracks composed by Coil. Originally produced
for the movie, but never included.

HELLRAISER (US / Cinedisc / CDC1001) 43:08

Contains 14 classical tracks composed by Christopher Young.

HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER II (US / GNP Crescendo / GNPD 8015) 73:59

Contains 13 classical tracks composed by Christopher Young,
performed by the Graunke Symphony Orchestra.

HELLRAISER III: HELL ON EARTH

Contains classical tracks composed by Randy Miller.
Details needed. Please!

HELLRAISER III: HELL ON EARTH MOVIE SOUNDTRACK (US / Victory / 383480007-2)

Contains 11 rock tracks.

>>09 LITERATURE :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

"It's what I've always wanted. You were almost enough, Julia, but . .
I have to see. I have to know. I planned for this moment for years
but I never knew . . I never guessed. It's enchanting. I never
thought I would feel such feelings."

a. BOOKS

THE HELLBOUND HEART (Clive Barker / Fontana / ISBN 0 00 647065 3)

The original novel which spawned the Hellraiser series.

CLIVE BARKER ILLUSTRATOR (Eclipse Books)

The first complete book compiling the art work of Clive Barker.

PANDEMONIUM (Eclipse Books)

A very picturesque book, this reveals much about Clive Barker's past
work, and contains the 1st printing of "History of the Devil".

SHADOWS IN EDEN (Stephen Jones / Underwood Miller / ISBN 0 88733 073 8)

THE HELLRAISER CHRONICLES (Clive Barker / Titan Books / ISBN 1 85286 423 0)

A picturesque companion to all three Hellraiser films, which
contains many colourful shots of the various actors and cenobites.

BREED (The official Clive Barker fanclub)

Phantom Press
180 Woodward Avenue, Staten Island NY 10314, USA

Life membership US$ 19.95

The only fanclub endorsed by Clive Barker himself. Membership
offers you: A membership certificate *signed* by Clive Barker,
a membership card offering 10% discount on any Phantom Press
purchases, as well as a one year subscription to:

DREAD (The official Clive Barker fanclub magazine)

Published bi-monthly by Phantom Press, in the US. A great read for
all the up to date info on Barker, as well as ordering details for
many of the Hellraiser merchandise and paraphanalia.

b. COMICS

:: ECLIPSE BOOKS :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Eclipse Books
PO BOX 1099, Forestville CA 95436, USA

Credit card orders call USA: 1-800-468-6828

TAPPING THE VEIN

1. "Human Remains" art by P. Craig Russell
"Pig Blood Blues" art by Scott Hampton
2. "In the Hills, the Cities" art by John Bolton
"Skins of Our Fathers" art by Klaus Janson
3. "Midnight Meat Train" art by Denys Cowan, Michael Davis
"Scape-goats" art by Bo Hampton
4. "The Madonna" art by Woch, von Tobel
"Hell's Event" art by Pearson, Okamoto, Johnson
5. "How Spoilers Breed" art by Hector Gomez
"Down, Satan" art by Tim Conrad

SON OF CELLULOID art by Les Edwards
THE YATTERING & JACK art by John Bolton
REVELATIONS art by Lionel Talaro
DREAD art by Dan Brereton

:: EPIC COMICS :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Epic Comics
387 Park Avenue South, New York NY 10016, USA

HELLRAISER

Hellraiser Summer Special
Hellraiser Dark Holiday Special
Hellraiser vs Nightbreed

PINHEAD VS MARSHALL LAW: LAW IN HELL

BOOK OF THE DAMNED: A HELLRAISER COMPANION

Part 3: The Journals of Philip Lemarchand

>>10 MERCHANDISE ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

"It's all right, sweetheart. Julia's told me everything; and it's all
right. Whatever Frank did was his error. And it's finished with now.
He's gone. He was insane, baby: a mad dog. I put him out of his
misery - I'll go to the police when I'm feeling stronger. Try and
find some way to make them understand, though God knows I don't
really understand myself. Did he hurt you? Poor Frank.
He's better off dead."

HELLRAISER MYSTERY BOX (Screamin' Products / no. 9100)

Lifesize replica of the Lament Configuration. Looks stunning, and
definitely worth purchasing. Requires assembly (with glue).

Screamin' Products, Inc.
P.O. Box 6577, Albany, New York 12206, USA

PINHEAD / BUTTERBALL / FEMALE CENOBITE / CHATTERER (Screamin' Products)

Scale models of the Cenobites. Need to be painted.

CLIVE BARKER'S WORLD OF HORROR

In the USA, there was a video giveaway attached to the release of
HELLRAISER III, where viewers were entreated to send in their video
rental receipt along with some small amount of postage and their name,
address, phone number, etc. written on a flash card in exchange for a
free half-hour video interview/documentary of Barker. The box art has a
head shot of Pinhead transforming into Barker in a series of some 12
images. The video itself is mostly an interview, but trailers to all
three HELLRAISER films are on this tape.

HELLRAISER ORIGINAL SCRIPT

Published by Paragan Film Productions
115 Flood Street
London SW3
England

Phone UK 01-352-4195

HELLBOUND ORIGINAL SCRIPT (2nd draft, November 1, 1987)

HELLRAISER TRADING CARDS (Eclipse Books, US$2.00 per pack / US$30.00 per box)

(Address above. Also available from Phantom Press)

HELLRAISER III CREW SHIRTS (available from Phantom Press)

Limited edition shirts worn by the crew while making the film. US$19.95
100% cotton black shirts. Puffed lettering & designs on front & back.
Medium, Large & X-tra large.

HELLRAISER SOUVENIER ITEMS (available from Phantom Press)

Baseball Cap (one size fits all) US$ 10.00
1 Qt. Thermos/Cooler US$ 15.00
Sportsbag US$ 15.00
Windbreaker (med/large) US$ 40.00
Satin Jacket (medium) US$ 65.00
Sweatshirt (small/med/large) US$ 29.00

>>11 FAQ RELEASE ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

"But you wanted this. You wanted to see. You wanted to know.
And here it is. The heart of Hell. Leviathan. Why do you think
I was allowed to go back? For you? No, it wanted souls. And I
brought you. And you wanted to know. Now you know. And I wanted
everything. Now everyone's happy."

1 First printing. 05/01/93
2 Video section updated. Comics updated.
3 Movie poster information included. FAQ added (Mattress). 05/19/93
4 Video section updated. Books updated (Shadows in Eden).
5 Soundtracks updated.
6 Characters, video section, goofs updated (Hellraiser III). 09/01/93
7 Books updated (Breed).
8 Video section updated. Comics updated. Hellraiser IV info.
9 Video section updated. Books, comics, models updated. 10/14/93
10 Video section updated. Cosmetic changes. 01/25/94
11 Video section updated. Soundtracks updated. FAQ added. 05/01/94

Published May 1st, 1994

UPDATES:

New versions will be posted to alt.horror and alt.cult-movies,
as well as the ftp site:

ftp.funet.fi directory: /pub/culture/tv+film/misc

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

Erkka Varjo (eva...@utu.fi)
for many intricate release details.

Kalle Paulsson (ka...@skom.se)
for supplying details of laserdisc releases, as well as
soundtrack details for Hellraiser III.

Nigel Bamford (Nigel....@uk.ac.ncl)
for supplying details of Hellraiser III versions.

Steven Feldman (ar40...@brownvm.brown.edu)
for supplying Epic and Eclipse comic details, as well as
several other great suggestions for the FAQ.

All information contained in here may be freely distributed, although
please be courteous and let me know what you're doing with it.

Mario Moeller

moe...@mundil.cs.mu.oz.au

------------------------------------end-----------------------------------------

0 new messages