"Welcome to the Kill Count, where we tally up the victims in all our favorite horror movies. I'm James A. Janisse, and today we're looking at Hellraiser, a British film by Clive Barker released in 1987. Hellraiser is a domestic drama filled with eroticism and torture, exploring how pain and pleasure can mix interchangeably. The Cenobites, the mutilated beings decked out in BDSM gear who hail from another dimension that's equivalent to hell, deliver these carnal experiences. The movie begins with a man buying a puzzle box and unleashing hell. The Cotton brothers, Larry and Frank, are the main characters. Frank's resurrection was originally a dusty skeleton coming out of a wall, owing to Hellraiser's modest budget of just under a million bucks. Julia, Frank's wife, agrees to be Frank's personal skin supplier. The movie ends with a vendor selling the puzzle box to a new puzzler. I counted 7 kills in Hellraiser, with Frank Cotton dying twice. The only female victim was Julia. The movie was released in 1987, and made such a splash New World Pictures immediately requested a sequel. It'd be released about 15 months later. This has been the Kill Count. Thanks a lot for watching this Kill Count! I wanna thank some Patrons like. Jamie Thompson, Tyquan Chew, Cody Lapati, Jojo Espana Jet Brockman, Noah Harris, and Brandi I'm so glad to finally be doing Hellraiser. You know, this first Hellraiser was the very first movie that Chelsea and I ever watched together as a couple. We got to tell Clive Barker that when we met him in 2018. Holds a special place in my heart."
1. The text is a review of the horror movie "Hellraiser," directed by Clive Barker and released in 1987.
2. The movie is a unique and interesting cinematic experience, with a domestic drama filled with eroticism and torture.
3. The Cenobites, mutilated beings decked out in BDSM gear, are the main antagonists of the movie.
4. The franchise currently stands at 10 films, but the review focuses on the first four.
5. Clive Barker, best known for "Hellraiser," was 34 when he made the movie and was already an award-winning author.
6. The movie was produced by Roger Corman's New World Pictures, which provided extra cash for the special effects.
7. The movie features explicit violence and sex scenes, which are graphically depicted.
8. The movie's special effects are on a level with Rob Bottin's work in "The Thing."
9. The movie was written to take place in London, but to make it more appealing to American audience members, the setting was made more ambiguous.
10. The movie features a transformation scene where Frank Cotton's corpse is brought back to life, a scene that was created by melting wax organs and skin on top of animatronics.
11. The movie features a scene where Julia Cotton, Frank's wife, kills a man with a hammer, a scene that was filmed in a location that Patrick Bateman would frequent.
12. The movie features a scene where Frank Cotton, who has been transformed into a monster, attacks his niece, Kirsty Cotton.
13. The movie features a scene where Kirsty Cotton, who has been attacked by the monster, uses the Lament Configuration to summon the Cenobites and send them back to their dimension.
14. The movie ends with a scene where the Lament Configuration is sold to a new puzzler.
15. The review counts 7 kills in "Hellraiser," with Frank Cotton dying twice.
16. The review also mentions that the movie was a hit and immediately led to a sequel request from New World Pictures.