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Hellraiser II
''Hellbound: Hellraiser II'' is a 1988 supernatural horror film directed by Tony Randel and starring Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Kenneth Cranham and Doug Bradley. It is the second film in the ''Hellraiser'' franchise, and draws heavily upon its precursor, ''Hellraiser'', which was released a year before with much of the same cast and crew. Laurence reprises her role as Kirsty Cotton, who is admitted into a psychiatric hospital after the events of the first film. There, the head doctor (Cranham) unleashes the Cenobites, a group of sadomasochistic beings from another dimension. Clive Barker, who wrote and directed the first ''Hellraiser'' film, wrote the story of ''Hellraiser II'' and served as executive producer. ''Hellraiser II'' is an international co-production of the United Kingdom and the United States, and was screened at the Toronto Festival of Festivals on 9 September 1988, with mixed reviews upon release. It grossed $12.1 million at the box office and was followe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Randel
Tony Randel (born May 29, 1956) is a Portuguese/American film director and screenwriter. Early life Randel grew up in West Los Angeles and attended University High School. He went on to study at Santa Monica College before transferring to California State University, Northridge, where he majored in film production. During his high school and college years, Randel worked as a grocery clerk at Lucky Market, with locations in both the Palms and Brentwood neighborhoods of Los Angeles. To this day, Randel maintains friendships with people he met during his supermarket days. He loves to tell the story of meeting a very engaging woman while checking out her groceries. She mentioned she worked in the motion picture business for Anne Bancroft. Before she revealed the name, Randel was already suspicious—her mannerisms and presence reminded him of Anne Bancroft, one of his favorite actors. Her mention of the name confirmed his suspicions. Years later, Randel met her husband, Mel Brooks, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hellraiser (franchise)
''Hellraiser'' is a British-American horror film, horror media franchise that consists of eleven films, as well as various comic books, and additional merchandise and media. Based on the novella ''The Hellbound Heart'' by English author Clive Barker, the franchise centers around the Cenobite (Hellraiser), Cenobites which includes the primary antagonist named Pinhead (Hellraiser), Pinhead. The overall plot of the franchise focuses on a Puzzle box, puzzle box, the Lament Configuration. It opens a gateway to the Hell-like realm of the Cenobite lifeforms. The Cenobites are an order of former humans who have become monsters who harvest human souls to torture in their sadistic experiments. Barker created the franchise and served as writer/director of the original film. He has stated that he signed away the story and character rights to the production company prior to the release of the first film, not realizing the critical and financial success it would be. The franchise was reboote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinhead (Hellraiser)
Pinhead (also known as Lead Cenobite or the Hell Priest, among other names and titles) is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the Hellraiser (franchise), ''Hellraiser'' franchise. The character first appeared as an unnamed figure in the 1986 Clive Barker novella ''The Hellbound Heart''. When Clive Barker adapted the novella into the 1987 film ''Hellraiser'', he referred to the character in early drafts as "the Priest" but the final film gave no name (he is credited as "Lead Cenobite" and only has approximately eight minutes of screentime). The production and make-up crew nicknamed the character "Pinhead"—derived from his bald head studded with nails—and fans accepted the sobriquet. The name was then used in press materials, tie-in media, and on-screen in some of Hellraiser (franchise)#Films, the film's sequels, although Barker himself despises the moniker. Pinhead is one of the leaders of the Cenobite (Hellraiser), Cenobites, said to be humans who were later t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imogen Boorman
Imogen May Pratt Boorman (born 13 May 1971) is an English former film and television actress. She is known for portraying Tiffany in the Horror film, horror film ''Hellbound: Hellraiser II'', Lorina in ''Dreamchild'', Clothhide in ''May to December'' and Hannah Preston in ''Westbeach''. Educated at Benenden School in Kent, Boorman went on to attend the Kent Institute of Art & Design to study for a BTEC Foundation Diploma in General Art and Design. Filmography Legal issues Boorman was arrested in 2006 and appeared in court to admit struggling with ambulance staff at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness. An ambulance had been called to her home at Kindeace by her boyfriend after she accidentally cut herself with a wine glass, however she shouted and swore at police and medical staff who were trying to help her. Following another incident in November 2007, she was given probation and community service for resisting arrest and struggling with police at her home. In August 2009, Boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vortex
In fluid dynamics, a vortex (: vortices or vortexes) is a region in a fluid in which the flow revolves around an axis line, which may be straight or curved. Vortices form in stirred fluids, and may be observed in smoke rings, whirlpools in the wake of a boat, and the winds surrounding a tropical cyclone, tornado or dust devil. Vortices are a major component of turbulent flow. The distribution of velocity, vorticity (the curl of the flow velocity), as well as the concept of circulation are used to characterise vortices. In most vortices, the fluid flow velocity is greatest next to its axis and decreases in inverse proportion to the distance from the axis. In the absence of external forces, viscous friction within the fluid tends to organise the flow into a collection of irrotational vortices, possibly superimposed to larger-scale flows, including larger-scale vortices. Once formed, vortices can move, stretch, twist, and interact in complex ways. A moving vortex carries s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood Transfusion
Blood transfusion is the process of transferring blood products into a person's Circulatory system, circulation intravenously. Transfusions are used for various medical conditions to replace lost components of the blood. Early transfusions used whole blood, but modern medical practice commonly uses only components of the blood, such as red blood cells, blood plasma, plasma, platelets, and other clotting factors. White blood cells are transfused only in very rare circumstances, since granulocyte transfusion has limited applications. Whole blood has come back into use in the Major trauma, trauma setting. Red blood cells (RBC) contain hemoglobin and supply the Cell (biology), cells of the body with oxygen. White blood cells are not commonly used during transfusions, but they are part of the immune system and also fight infections. Plasma is the "yellowish" liquid part of blood, which acts as a buffer and contains proteins and other important substances needed for the body's overall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hell
In religion and folklore, hell is a location or state in the afterlife in which souls are subjected to punishment after death. Religions with a linear divine history sometimes depict hells as eternal destinations, such as Christianity and Islam, whereas religions with reincarnation usually depict a hell as an intermediary period between incarnations, as is the case in the Indian religions. Religions typically locate hell in another dimension or under Earth's surface. Other afterlife destinations include heaven, paradise, purgatory, limbo, and the underworld. Other religions, which do not conceive of the afterlife as a place of punishment or reward, merely describe an abode of the dead, the grave, a neutral place that is located under the surface of Earth (for example, see Kur, Hades, and Sheol). Such places are sometimes equated with the English word ''hell'', though a more correct translation would be "underworld" or "world of the dead". The ancient Mesopotamian, Greek, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lament Configuration
''The Hellbound Heart'' is a horror novella by Clive Barker, first published in November 1986 by Dark Harvest in the third volume of its ''Night Visions (book series), Night Visions'' anthology series. The story features a hedonist criminal acquiring a mystical puzzle box, the LeMarchand Configuration, which can be used to summon the Cenobite (Hellraiser), Cenobites, demonic beings who do not distinguish between pain and pleasure. He escapes the Cenobites and, with help, resorts to murder to restore himself to full life. Later on, the puzzle box is found by another. Along with introducing Barker's Cenobites, the story was the basis for the 1987 film ''Hellraiser'' (written and directed by Barker) and its Hellraiser (franchise), franchise. One Cenobite in particular, nameless in the original novella but nicknamed "Pinhead (Hellraiser), Pinhead" by the production crew and fans, became a popular villain among horror movie fans. This character appeared in later Barker prose with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
