There is a terrible Rubik's cube in this world. As long as you can spell it correctly, the gates of hell will open to you. Kirsty's uncle Frank was killed by the devil of hell because he opened the door of hell. Now, because of the infiltration of blood, he has begun his journey of resurrection. He had to rely on her stepmother to complete his plan, even including his own brother, but the devil in hell followed suit and wanted to take him back to hell. ...
Introduction to the work:
From 65438 to 0987, the thriller writer Clive Barker put his first novel "Hellraiser" on the screen, which established his position in the thriller world. The story revolves around a Rubik's cube box that can open the gates of hell, and its box office success led to the appearance of the next four sequels. He is one of the few successful people in his class who transformed from a novelist to a director.
Pearl S. Buck's film style belongs to the traditional terrorist school, which is good at naked blood and violence, directly appealing to the sensory stimulation of the audience, and creating the most standard hell scene in the eyes of westerners. At two extremes with him is Stephen King, the "king of horror novels" in the United States. The main image of Jin's novels is "small town". This quiet and remote town has collected the dark secrets of all its residents, and one day they will be exposed one by one, just like bricks built in silence, until you finally build an insurmountable wall. This is a very advanced "psychological terror" technology. Some works you didn't feel at first sight, but when you think of them casually afterwards, there is a chill in your chest.
The director said:
I saw a horrible future. His name is clive barker. (Clive Barker: Dark Philosopher)
It was the famous Stephen King who said the above sentence. He is called the "King of Terror" by many people, but he should know clearly in his heart that the real "King of Terror" is actually an Englishman named clive barker mentioned in his above sentence. If you are not familiar with this name, I tell you that Chasing the Soul in Hell (translated as "Keeping Ghosts and Eating People" or "Chasing the Soul in the Underworld") and Candy Man (translated as "Roaring in the Wind") are horror film classics adapted and directed by this person according to his own novels. Does that ring a bell? Not yet? Then I'm afraid this article is a heavy taste for you, and I don't like it.
Clive Barker was born in Liverpool, England. He is a painter, writer, playwright and director. His talent enabled him to show the world those chilling but fascinating black fantasies in his mind through various media. After early fame by writing novels, cliff! 1986, Buck wrote a script based on his novel and directed the first film "Hellraiser". In the eyes of many people, even if everyone admits that this is a classic in a horror movie, they will think that it is not out of the category of bad horror movies. A lot of blood and torn bodies make many people's senses unable to bear this weird movie. But personally, I think Hellboy represents the pinnacle of a film genre. No other work in horror movies can explore and express darkness as boldly and stubbornly as "Hellraiser"-a puzzle forbidden area of human subjective world opposite to light. In other words, only in the film field, no other artist has been exploring and thinking about the nature of human fear like Clive Barker. Other directors use horror themes to express technology, while Clive Barker uses horror and darkness to express the soul. "My work is my inner confession." Clive Barker said so.
Different from other death-related arts such as death rock, Clive Barker's works emphasize not only the themes of madness, subversion, fragmentation and depravity, but also an ascetic, who advocates saving the soul through physical pain and pursuing a realm from devil to Tao. Blood and broken body are symbols in Clive Barker's works, symbolizing the most primitive human emotions such as fear and desire. Needles, the hero of Hellboy series, the guy with needles all over his face is a witch. When he said with a straight face, "Welcome to hell!" "I am in pain!" "I will tear your soul!" When saying these classic lines, the hell chill from the mouth is enough to freeze the soul of the guilty. Torture is only the pain of the body, not the appearance. The torture of the soul is the real hell and the essence. In the film, the key to the door of hell is a magic box. When people with dirty souls get it, they will be tempted by it and can't help but open the door of hell. The chains of the hell monks with steel hooks will stretch out from the hell and tear the sinners to pieces and become sacrifices to the hell. And this is just the beginning. After the body is shattered, the soul will continue its painful cycle in hell and will never be able to ascend.
Clive barker is thin and gentle, which makes it difficult to associate him with those endless dark fantasies. Except movies and words, Clive Barker's paintings abandon all forms and directly show his inner concrete or abstract illusion on canvas. In addition to the classic horror films, such as Hell Hunters, Candy Man, Night Seed and Lord of Illusions, Clive Barker also participated in the production of the literary drama Gods and Monsters as a producer, which was well received and won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay. Clive barker also participated in the production of some TV series, designed plots for the computer horror games Nightbreed and Undying, produced a series of cartoons of Hellraiser, and also designed and produced a series of toy models named Torture of the Soul. Two models of this series have been published, which can be said to be a collection treasure that clive barker fans can't miss.
In addition, from a technical point of view, the makeup and ghost modeling design of the series of "Chasing the Soul in Hell" is the best among all the horror movies I know that don't use computer CG technology. Even in the other four films (only original novels) in which Clive Barker did not directly participate except the first and second episodes of the series "Chasing the Soul in Hell", although the depth of discussing the dark side has declined, the ghost shapes in the films have all inherited the black style of demon, evil and cold that Clive Barker has always loved, and this style is only available in Clive Barker, and there is no semicolon. A black leather coat by Sammie Levi and Lawrence Fishborne in The Matrix has become synonymous with "coolness", but the black tight-fitting leather robe worn by hell monks in the first episode of Chasing the Soul in Hell, which was filmed more than ten years ago, plus the bare muscles and twisted facial features in the blood-stained forest, is really a little cooler than The Matrix. Clive barker used his imagination, as if he had made a deal with hell, so that the audience could face it up close, which they had never experienced before. A powerful dark force seized your body and soul, and it was not until the end of the film that you confirmed that you had returned to reality.