FantasticI was shocked to find this on Kindle Unlimited. Glad I did too. This is a fantastically gory and brutal read, with some of the best artwork I've come across in comics. Highly recommended.

As a continuation of his Hellraiser movie's Clive Barker doesn't disappoint with this, it is a well plotted story playing by the same rules of the previous installments and effectively being more an adventure mystery than horror book. I doubt that non-fans will seek this out because if they do that without knowing anything about the hellraiser mythos they will get lost.I like it a lot but this isn't a 5 star work simply because it isn't taking any risks, also I found it to lack depth and horror

This was so good!I think you have to watch the movies first otherwise you are going to be left in the dark about who the players are in this graphic novel.We have Pinhead, the rest of his crew, Kristy Cotton, and of course, the box.In this volume 1, we have a Pinhead that is bored with the sights and torture he has seen. He wants something more..he wants to be human.We get a gruesome opening scene of a woman torn apart by Pinhead and the Cenobites, and than Pinhead being all, well I have seen al...

(Originally posted @ CSI:Librarian.)I am endlessly impressed by the scope of Clive Barker's vision and I'm so happy to report that this graphic novel was really, really excellent. In fact, this is probably the best Hellraiser-related anything I've ever read or seen. Of course I realize that might not read as high praise considering some of the more recent films or anthologies regarding the Cenobites and their leader, but Barker's lack of involvement goes a long to explain why most of them are so...

3.5 StarsHell is Back in fashion, Kids! Oh, hush, child. How they all yearn for home... But hell is a house of many rooms, too. I loved Barker's original novella and the movie adaptation, and the rest of the media featuring Cenobites varied from average to horrendous to unwatchable for me. So when I came across this comic book, I was excited because of Barker's involvement, and a bit wary at the same time because of the franchise's nose-diving track record.But when the unholy

Spooky! Gut-splattering! True-to-form.

Clive Barker is a name that's synonymous with horror, to most it's associated with an impressive entry into horror film history which not only gave birth to one of the most iconic figures in horror cinema but also introduced a chilling and disturbing world, that film was Hellraiser. Written and directed by Barker based on his short story titled The Hellbound Heart. Barker somewhat naively signed away the rights to the world he had created not realising just how popular it would become. It quickl...

I remember Hellraiser being the first movie that ever terrified me. Granted, I was young when I watched it, but still, the violent imagery and The Cenobites really left a mark on me. To this day I remember cowering at the end of the first movie when the female Cenobite is approaching Kirsty, dragging a hook along the wall in her wake. For some reason that scene always scares the "hell" out of me even to this day.Anyway Hellraiser has always fascinated me and I've always thought that the story ha...

Holy s***! Now that's a real real horror!Or to be more exact its unholy s***....yes, definitely unholy:) Full of disgusting and despicable things....Its got buckets full of blood dripping down its pages and desecrated bodies, done in many interesting ways:) However interesting, this one is not something you'll want to see your kids reading. But if your a big girl/guy and are looking for a nice dose of something to give you nightmares, this one is for you. The story is disturbing and has a effect...

As usual with this kind of stuff, I was confused some of the time, but ignored that like usual and kept reading.It's definitely a different type of Hellraiser story where Pinhead has grown weary. I was more interested in the Kirsty angle because I enjoyed Hellseeker so much when I saw it last year. Yeah, the Hellraiser sequels are pretty terrible, and it wasn't a well-made movie, but there was something about it that had me glued and seeking out this comic series. Fortunately Pinhead is accompan...

Clive Barker was an eye-opening, soul-crushing, exciting discovery for a teenager born in a very quiet, provincial white-bread town. I remember being obsessed with his “Books of Blood: Volume 1” in high school, re-reading the dog-eared copy so many times that the front and back covers fell apart, like a snake shedding its skin.I was fifteen when the movie “Hellraiser” arrived in theaters in 1987. I dragged my dad to see it, twice. He didn’t get it. I loved it.The movie spawned a slew of sequels,...

Compelling dialog and some fiendishly inventive visuals sadly can't overcome a lack of focus and a rather predictable plot, combined with the perhaps unwise decision to make this a sequel, and not a reboot, of the original two Hellraiser movies. Clive Barker has a great imagination, but unlike the very first Hellraiser - a movie I appreciate as much for its simplicity as its depth - there's no core to this story, no central motif or theme. It's not much help that both the protagonist and antagon...

***Review may contain very minor spoilers,but nothing past what is listed on the back of the volume.***Generally speaking, I'm not a huge graphic novel fan. I have nothing against the medium, but I tend to prefer to create the images in my own imagination. That being said, I've come across some graphic novels that's have really been a treat, such as Neil Gaiman's Sandman series and Alan Moore's Watchmen. With all that out if the way, I love Clive Barker's work, and his novella 'The Hellbound Hea...

I’ve not read a graphic novel since I was a young girl, but I was looking up the fabulous Clive Barker on Amazon yesterday and discovered some of his graphic novels are available on Kindle Unlimited. I was so excited, I clicked on this one straight away and read it last night. I read lots of books and I listen to audiobooks reasonably often, so reading a graphic novel with pictures was an interesting new experience for me as an adult.Hellraiser Vol. 1 tells the next chapter in Clive Barker’s Hel...

It is generally accepted that only the first two Hellraiser movies are 'canon', and the second one is a bit iffy. All the subsequent movies throw away the original premise, that the cenobites are horrific but morally neutral hedonists, and treat them as evil antagonists. Remember the antagonist of Hellraiser was Frank, and the cenobites helped the protagonist by killing him. Not that they are a force for good - they were just following the rules. But later films actually identify them as demons

During most of my life Clive Barker has been my favorite author, as far as professional heroes go he is one of them for sure. He has had a rough go of it lately. Lots of projects and books have been promised and only half of those (mostly films) have seen the light of day. Publishing wise Barker was dropped by his long time publisher after failing to deliver a collection of horror shorts called the Scarlet Gospels. This collection has been rumored for almost a decade, and was said to feature Bar...

I enjoyed this quite a bit, this is what The Scarlet Gospels should have been.The art is pretty good, the story is interesting and adds a bit of depth to the hellraiser mythos.Most of all it stays true to the original hellraiser concept and provides gore aplenty!

One of the things that Clive Barker has touched in regards to the Hellraiser world, this shows that he still has a finger on the heartbeat on what makes horror. I found the idea that Kristy and others touched by the Toymaker's creations hunting down said creations was an interesting idea. I'm not a huge one with using Kristy in any storylines, but overall it worked for this graphic novel. The very fact that they included the Toymaker as part of Hellraiser cannon (as far as Barker is concerned) i...

Clive Barker is a freaking genius. From his writing style to the horror, its just absolutely perfect.Pinhead wants to become a full human again and his puzzle box is traveling pretty fast from hand to hand. But what does Ms. Cotton have to do with all of this?Fanfuckingtastic. The art style and the writing really feed off each other making awesomely perfect.

I'm giving this trade 2 stars not because it was bad, but because I didn't really connect with it. Even though there really are only two Hellraiser movies worth a damn (out of the 8 or 9 that exist), I really do love the mythology of this franchise. So I should have loved this book, but I realize now that along with the mythology, the franchise is really reliant on the sadomasochistic mood that the movies deliver. There is a sexy horrifying beauty in the first 2 movies that is hard to translate