Hellraiser - 20th Anniversary

September 2007 marks the 20th anniversary of the opening of the first Hellraiser movie, Clive Barker's big screen directorial debut and a movie that challenged the late 1980s trend for stalk-and-slash horror movies. The enduring power of the mythology of the Cenobites, the Order of the Gash, presented in the first movie has spawned seven sequels, a series of graphic novels, resin kits, plastic models, fan clubs, magazines, internet discussion boards, fan-made films, a veritable industry of unofficial Lament Configuration manufacturers and even plans for a big-budget remake...
To mark this august occasion, a few promotional images from September 1987 which acted as the lure towards the cinema screen, together with a few links to various parts of the site...

See our Script-to-screen Analysis of a Classic Scene from Hellraiser and
Analysis of the Character of Pinhead,
as well as our archived collection of Clive's thoughts on Hellraiser, links to the Hellraiser sequels,
plans for the Hellraiser remake and four pages worth of Hellraiser covers.

Press advert for Hellraiser's 10 September 1987 premiere

Cover of Time Out London, 2 - 9 September 1987

Cover of Fangoria, Issue 67, September 1987

Hellraiser UK Theatrical Lobby Cards, 1987

UK press advert for Hellraiser's 11 September 1987 opening week

US press advert for Hellraiser's opening

Script-to-screen Analysis of a Classic Scene from Hellraiser
Analysis of the Character of Pinhead