Horror, written and directed by Clive Barker, starring Andrew Robinson and Clare Higgins. When Frank Cotton opens a magical puzzle box, he unleashes the Cenobites - demonic creatures who torture and kill him, and take his remains to another dimension. Years later when Frank's brother and wife move into the dead man's house, she discovers that Frank's body can be regenerated whenever blood is spilt.
Already a popular horror writer, Clive Barker successfully transferred his trademark perverse chills to the screen in his 1987 directorial debut - a surreal, claustrophobic and graphic shocker about the consequences of opening a Chinese puzzle box. The film allowed Barker to introduce a dark new mythology to the genre as well as the Cenobites - leather-clad, disfigured angels from hell with intriguing concepts of dimensional pleasure and pain. Despite his uneven direction, and the odd Cricklewood locations, this absorbing sadomasochistic chiller really delivers the gruesome goods and spawned a number of sequels. It also launched Doug Bradley's head Cenobite - the appropriately monikered Pinhead - into a break-out star of celluloid horror.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Larry Cotton | Andrew Robinson |
| Julia Cotton | Clare Higgins |
| Kirsty Swanson | Ashley Laurence |
| Frank Cotton | Sean Chapman |
| Frank the Monster | Oliver Smith |
| Steve | Robert Hines |
| Lead Cenobite | Doug Bradley |
| First victim | Anthony Allen |
| Second victim | Leon Davis |
| Third victim | Michael Cassidy |
| Derelict | Frank Baker (4) |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Clive Barker |
