Hellraiser Halloween Horror

Clive Barker's Hellraiser (1987) and the lessons of pleasure and pain

Oct 31, 2022

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man wearing jack-o-lantern — Photo by Daniel Lincoln on Unsplash

This post is a day early - because it’s Halloween today! And horror films make an annual appearance - so why not have a bit of a scare?

Horror films sometimes feature scenes of extreme torture, as well as sadism and sadomasochism (and especially the subgenre known as “torture porn”, which I will ignore here). I will fo…

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