Hellraiser (also known as Clive Barker’s Hellraiser) is a 1987 British and American horror film based upon the novella The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker, who also wrote the screenplay and directed the film. Hellraiser explores themes of sadomasochism and morality under duress and fear. The film spawned a series of sequels. A remake was announced and will be presented in 3D.^[2] Hellraiser was number 19 on the cable channel Bravo’s list of the 100 Scariest Movie Moments.

Somewhere in Morocco, Frank Cotton (Sean Chapman) buys an antique puzzle box from a dealer. Back in the attic of his house in London, Frank solves the puzzle box, prompting hooked chains to emerge from it and tear him to pieces. Monsters appear and inspect the remains, arranging together the scattered pieces of Frank’s face. Their leader, “Pinhead” (Doug Bradley), picks up the box and twists it back into its original state, taking Frank’s remnants back to their realm with them and restoring the room to normal.

Sometime later, Frank’s brother Larry (Andrew Robinson) arrives at the house along with his second wife, Julia (Clare Higgins), who previously had an affair with Frank. The pair know Frank as an avowed hedonist and petty criminal, and, presuming that he is either in jail or in some exotic location, decide to move in. Larry’s teenage daughter, Kirsty Cotton (Ashley Laurence), chooses not to live with her stepmother and moves into her own place. While moving into the house, Larry cuts his hand on a nail, and drips blood on the attic floor. The blood somehow reaches Frank in his prison in the monsters’ realm, partially restoring his body and allowing him to escape to the attic.

That night, Julia finds Frank (now portrayed by Oliver Smith) in the attic; still obsessed with him after their affair, she agrees to harvest blood for him so that he can fully restore his body and they can run away together. The next day, Julia begins picking up men in bars and bringing them back to the house, where she murders them with a hammer; Frank then consumes their blood and internal organs, progressively regenerating his own body. Once he has regained enough strength, Frank explains to Julia that he had exhausted all sensory experiences and sought out the puzzle box on the promise that it would open a portal to a realm of new carnal pleasures. Instead, it opened up a portal to the realm of the “Cenobites,” who have since taken Frank as their prisoner and subjected him to extreme, sadomasochistic torture.

Meanwhile, Kirsty spies Julia bringing men to the house and, believing her to be having an affair, follows her to the attic one afternoon, where she interrupts a murder. Frank attacks her, but panics when Kirsty grabs the puzzle box. Kirsty throws the box out the window, proving enough of a distraction for her to escape. Outside the house, she retrieves the puzzle box and runs away, but collapses from exhaustion shortly thereafter. After being taken to the hospital, Kirsty solves the puzzle box, summoning the Cenobites. Pinhead explains that while the Cenobites have been perceived as Angels and Demons, they are simply “explorers” of carnal experience, practicing a form of sadomasochism so extreme that it transcends the boundary between pain and pleasure. Although they initially attempt to force Kirsty to return with them to their realm, Pinhead becomes indignant at the suggestion one of their “subjects” has escaped, and agrees to free Kirsty in exchange for taking them to Frank.

Kirsty returns home, where Larry tells her that he has confronted and killed Frank. Larry shows her a bloodied corpse in the attic, but his language and mannerisms ultimately lead Kirsty to realize that Frank has in fact killed her father, and is now wearing his flesh like a suit. Frank pursues Kirsty through the house with a knife, inadvertently killing Julia in the process. He eventually corners Kirsty in the attic, where he brags about having killed his brother. The admission summons up the Cenobites, who ensnare him with chains and tear him to pieces. They then attempt to renege on their deal with Kirsty and take her back to their realm. Kirsty’s boyfriend, Steve arrives and looks for Kirsty. Kirsty defeats the cenobites by reversing the motions needed to open the puzzle box, sending them back to their realm. Kirsty and Steve leave the house together.

Hellraiser is one scary movie! The Hellraiser costume was so detailed and spooky. Tiny pins adorned his head. The hellraiser mask was the best part! This is a definite Halloween costume idea!

A nightmare on Elm Street was a slasher film written by Wes Craven in 1984. The film is credited with carrying on many clichés found in low-budget horror films of the 1970s and 1980s, originating in John Carpenter’s 1978 horror film Halloween, including the morality play that revolves around sexual promiscuity in teenagers resulting in their eventual (usually graphic) death, leading to the term “slasher film”. Critics and film historians argue that the film’s premise is the question of the distinction between dreams and reality, which is manifested in the film through the teenagers’ dreams and their realities. Critics today praise the film’s ability to transgress “the boundaries between the imaginary and real”, toying with audience perceptions.

I used to love “A Nightmare on Elm Street” when i was a child, I was also so scared of falling asleep when i was a child due to this film. Freddy Kruger’s outfit is simple but his face is all torn up and burnt looking. He has long gloves with claws on the end.  He was the ultimate in spooky and he’d only come out once you were asleep, so DONT FALL ASLEEP!

I hate when people dress up as aclever food costume.The only reason I hate them, is because I am so jealous I didn’t think of it first. Although, it’s pretty rare you see twodeviled eggsat a party..you wouldn’t want to be the second egg to arrive. I can never get anyone cool enough to coordinate a couples costumewith me.