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May 14, 1993, 1:00:11 PM5/14/93

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

CONTENTS

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

1. Introduction
2. Plot summaries
3. Characters
4. The box
5. FAQ
a. Hellraiser
b. Hellbound
6. Missing/different scenes
a. Hellraiser
b. Hellbound
7. a. Version cuts/differences
b. Goofs
8. Soundtracks
9. a. Books
b. Comics
10. Models and other bits
11. FAQ version

1. INTRODUCTION

"And to think; I hesitated."

Probably 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.

Corrections and additions are always sought, and you can email me at:

moe...@mundil.cs.mu.oz.au (The University of Melbourne, Australia)

PLEASE write and let me know what you think of this FAQ, because I'll
need YOUR input to make it even better!

Anyway, I hope you enjoy reading the FAQ as much as I enjoyed compiling
it. Have fun!

Mario Moeller, May 1993.

2. PLOT SUMMARIES

Hellraiser

"It will tear your soul apart."

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-loved and Larry's brother.
He explains to her how, by solving a Chinese 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."

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."

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 J.P. 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 J.P.'s club.
While Joey and Terri investigate the origins of the puzzle box, J.P.
accidentally spills a few drops of blood on the pillar, releasing the
imprisoned soul of Pinhead. Finally freed from the pillar by J.P.'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 tortuted 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,
increadible confrontation, dreams become reality as they receive help
from a very unexpected source. . .

3. CHARACTERS

Hellraiser / Hellbound

"Remember. Remember all your confusions. Think! You were all human!"

Larry Cotton (Andrew Robinson) : Julia'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) : Julia's boyfriend (Hellraiser)
Dr. Channard (Kenneth Cranham) : Head surgeon, Channard Institute (Hellbound)
Tiffany (Imogen Boorman) : Patient in Channard Institute (Hellbound)
Kyle (William Hope) : A 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)

Did you know?

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

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

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

4. THE BOX

"You solved the box. We came. Now you must come with us. Taste our pleasures."

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. The problem with that
is that 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."

5. FAQ

Hellraiser

"Hush now. It's all right. Frank's here."

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.

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

Once again, the movie contains an error here - the script sees Kirsty
simply picking 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?

While the only people that can fully explain the story behind Hellbound
are Cinemarque Entertainment (USA) Ltd., I can make an extremely good
observation, having read the original script. In the original script,
Larry is actually in Hell, and Kirsty actually rescues Larry. Now,
I think Larry must have pulled out half way through the film, because
the version we see of Hellbound is 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?

A scene cut from Hellbound was towards the start of the film, showing
Tiffany escaping the institute, and being chased by staff. A carnival
happens to be set up near the institute, which Tiffany enters a stall
in, even though it is night, and the place is all locked up and deserted.
Tiffany likes to escape here because of her liking of patterns and puzzles.
She is always caught and returned to the institute, but she always
manages to enjoy the hall of mirrors here. Later on, 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 Frank, whom Kirsty was going
to find, and rescue from Hell. As this bit was cut, the viewer is
led to believe that the person was actually Frank, impersonating
Larry, and falsely making Kirsty go to Hell.

Q: Why don't Kirsty and Kyle hit it off?

They do! But once again, this bit was cut from the final version of
Hellbound. Kirsty actually spends the night at Kyle's place, and
kisses 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!".

6. MISSING/DIFFERENT SCENES

"My Daddy didn't believe in fairy tales, either . . . But some of them
come true, Ronson. Even the bad ones."

Hellraiser

* Larry pushing bed up stairs:

LARRY: Christ!
MAN 1: What's the problem?
LARRY: My fucking hand!
You fucking assholes!
MAN 1: Who are you calling a fucking asshole? It's this bastard bed
that's your fucking problem!

* Kirsty works at a Pizza shop instead of a pet 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>

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. CENBITE: 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 : Hellraiser II

* 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)

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 55 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 - just like in Hellbound.

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 drop 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.

7. a. VERSION CUTS/DIFFERENCES

"I recommend amputation."

Hellraiser:

Two types of version exist of this film at present, both are fairly
similar, although one version is cut slightly when Julia kills one of
the picked up men, when he pleads for his life as she is about to hit
him with the hammer.

HELLRAISER (New World Video / SNW 1038)

UK version, rated 18. Barcode: 5020263010382. Cut slightly as
described above.

HELLRAISER (cinema release)

Australian version, rated R (18+). Cut slightly as described above.

HELLRAISER (Village Roadshow)

Australian version, rated R (18+). Uncut.

Hellbound:

Several types of version exist of this film:

(a) Most cut. Missing heaps of gore, and scene described below.
Also missing scenes -
* Dr. Channard chops patient's hand off.
* Hammer nailing pins in at start.
(b) Gore only cut very slightly (not noticeable), but the scene
in Hell where Kirsty sees the photos of her family is missing.
(c) Completely uncut.

Note - NO version contains the 'surgeon's scene', unless maybe the
Japanese LD version - can anyone verify this??

HELLBOUND (Village Roadshow)

Australian release, rated R (18+). (a)

HELLBOUND (New World Video)

UK release, rated 18. (a)

HELLBOUND (Finnish version?) (b) (Finnish subtitles)

HELLBOUND (Greek version?) (c)

HELLBOUND ('uncut' version) (c)

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 scenes when he is injected with blue/red stuff
you see his buttons and he is not wearing a tie.

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

8. SOUNDTRACKS

"Oh Kirsty; so eager to play. So reluctant to admit it."

HELLRAISER (USA / Cinedisc / CDC1001) 43:08

Contains 14 classical tracks composed by Christopher Young.

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

Contains the original 5 tracks for the movie, scrapped as Clive Barker
took them off because they made his bowels churn. Yes, it is a pretty
spooky CD, although my bowels are still intact. Worth a listen to,
especially for the 'box theme'.

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

Contains 13 classical tracks composed by Christopher Young, as well as
7 more classical tracks for the movie "Highpoint". Forget these
other tracks - the Hellbound tracks are fantastic though. Get this CD!

HELLRAISER III: HELL ON EARTH

Two CDs are available for this movie, one containing classical tracks
(but not by Christopher Young) and the other containing rock tracks
(from the nightclubs). Details welcome.

9. a. BOOKS

"I have to see; I have to know."

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

The original novel which spawned the Hellraiser series:

THE DOORWAY TO ULTIMATE PLEASURE:

At last he had solved the puzzle of Lemarchand's box. He was standing
on the threshold of a new world of heightened sensations. In moments
the Cenobites - who had dedicated an eternity to the pursuit of
sensuality - would be here. They would reveal dark secrets that would
transform him for ever. But with the exquisite pleasure would come
pain beyond imagining. To escape his hideous tormenters and return
to this world, he would need the help of his brother's wife Julia,
the woman who loved him. But most of all he would need blood.

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

A very picturesque companion to all three Hellraiser films, which
contains many colourful shots of the various actors and cenobites.
US$16.95

PANDEMONIUM

Another picturesque book, this reveals much about Clive Barker's past
work, and contains the 1st printing of "History of the Devil". US$19.95

CLIVE BARKER ILLUSTRATOR

The first complete book compiling the art work of Clive Barker. US$19.95

DREAD (The official Clive Barker magazine)

Published 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. One year
membership US$19.95.

Phantom Press
180 Woodward Avenue
Staten Island NY 10314
USA

b. COMICS

HELLRAISER (Epic Comics) Published every six weeks.

Office of Publications:

387 Park Avenue South
New York, New York 10016

Each issue has three stories with different artists and writers.

HELLRAISER SUMMER SPECIAL (Epic Comics)

HELLRAISER DARK HOLIDAY SPECIAL (Epic Comics)

Features Pinhead in Santa Costume, slogan "He knows if you've been bad
or good..."

HELLRAISER VS NIGHTBREED (Epic Comics)

BOOK OF THE DAMNED: A HELLRAISER COMPANION (Epic Comics)

Parts 1, 2 and 3 available.

Part 3: The Journals of Philip Lemarchand

10. MODELS AND OTHER BITS

"ahhh....the suffering. The sweet suffering..."

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

Lifesize replica of the Lament Configuration. Looks stunning, and
definitely worth purchasing.

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

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

Scale models of the Cenobites. Need to be painted.

HELLRAISER ORIGINAL SCRIPT

Published by Paragan Film Productions
115 Flood Street
London SW3
England

Phone 01-352-4195

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

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

Eclipse Books
Box 1099
Forestville CA 95436
USA

(also available from Phantom Press - see address above)

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 VERSION

"...I brought you. And you wanted to know. Now we're both happy."

1st printing. No changes.

Published May 15th, 1993.

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
38 Greenvale Drive
Greenvale VIC 3059
AUSTRALIA

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Mario Moeller | The University of Melbourne | moe...@mundil.cs.mu.oz.au
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