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- The story features a hedonist criminal acquiring a mystical puzzle box, the Lemarchand Configuration, which can be used to summon the 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.
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- Hellraiser. Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence. 238 votes. Featuring the iconic Pinhead and his fellow Cenobites, this classic horror film delves into the world of sadomasochistic demons summoned by a mysterious puzzle box called the Lament Configuration.
- Hellbound: Hellraiser II. Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Kenneth Cranham. 191 votes. The second installment in the Hellraiser franchise expands upon the Cenobite mythology, introducing a new villain, Dr. Chenard, who becomes obsessed with the Lament Configuration.
- Constantine. Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf. 286 votes. This supernatural thriller, based on the DC comics anti-hero John Constantine, traverses the boundaries of heaven, hell, and everything in between.
- Event Horizon. Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan. 256 votes. This sci-fi horror thriller takes viewers on a journey through a derelict spaceship that mysteriously reappears after a failed interstellar voyage.
Nov 20, 2023 · Whether you see hell as an actual place or a state of extreme mental distress, here are some of the best movies ever made about hell. Movies About Hell Jigoku (1960) The Sinners of Hell (1960) was released in Japan as Jigoku (literally, Hell) and is based on the Buddhist Hell Scroll paintings.
- 40 'Barbarian'
- 39 'The Perfection'
- 38 'Funny Games'
- 37 'Deliver Us from Evil'
- 36 '[REC]'
- 35 'Host'
- 34 'The Descent'
- 33 'Veronica'
- 32 'The Hills Have Eyes'
- 31 'Sinister'
Director: Zach Cregger
Barbarian is one of the most bonkers horror movies to hit screens in recent memory. On the surface, it seems like your standard creepy horror flick. A woman named Tara (Georgina Campbell) books an Airbnb, only to find it has been double-booked by a mysterious stranger named Keith (Bill Skarsgård). Just when you think you know where the narrative is going, Barbarian flips the script and goes to a totally unexpected and wild place. The film’s second half is completely demented and gross, but it...
Director: Richard Shepard
Netflix has released a slew of original horror films, but one that stands out (and is easily underrated) is The Perfection, starring Get Out and M3GAN’s Allison Williams. Williams plays troubled music prodigy Charlotte, who returns to her prestigious music school to find that she has been replaced by new star pupil Lizzie (Logan Browning). The pair are sent down a sinister path there is no returning from, embarking on the ultimate revenge plot. While viewers may initially make comparisons to...
Director: Michael Haneke
Despite not technically being a horror movie, Michael Haneke’s original Funny Games is one of the most terrifying non-horror films of all time, and is truly difficult to stomach. The psychological thriller follows two young men (Arno Frisch and Frank Giering) who hold a family hostage in their lakeside vacation home. They abuse and force them to play sadistic games for their own sick entertainment. The psychotic Paul (Firsch) and Peter (Giering) often break the fourth wall throughout the film...
Director: Scott Derrickson
While there are definitely better exorcism films out there than Scott Derrickson’s Deliver Us from Evil, there is no denying that it leaves you feeling unsettled and frightened. Eric Bana plays Ralph, a police officer who teams up with Mendoza (Édgar Ramírez), a priest, to combat possessions that are wreaking havoc on New York City. From gruesome corpses to otherworldly demons, Deliver Us from Evilfeatures some truly grotesque and scarring imagery that leaves an impact. Its religious themes a...
Directors: Paco Plaza and Jaume Balagueró
The use of found-footage filmmaking is extremely popular within the horror genre, thanks to the success of films like The Blair Witch Project. One of the most effective and frightening uses of the stylistic technique can be seen in the Spanish horror film [Rec]. Entirely using found footage, it depicts a television reporter (Manuela Velasco) and her cameraman (Pablo Rosso), who follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building. There is a virus outbreak, trapping everybody inside and sl...
Director: Rob Savage
We have all become far too familiar with Zoom and communicating remotely through work meetings and social catch-ups during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, director Rob Savage capitalized on the popularity of the application (and social circumstances) to make Host, a film that proves you don’t need a big budget to make something terrifying. Filmed entirely through webcams and set on a computer screen, a group of friends perform an online seance and accidentally invite a demonic presence into t...
Director: Neil Marshall
One of the most terrifying and claustrophobic movies ever made, The Descentis a lean and nasty horror experience. The film follows a group of friends on a cave expedition, where they become trapped inside and are hunted by bloodthirsty creatures. The film is a back-to-basics horror thriller, utilizing the isolation and limited space of its setting for some truly horrific and visceral sequences. It starts with a slow-burn build and then releases full carnage for its remaining runtime. The suff...
Director: Paco Plaza
Commonly referred to as one of the scariest movies on Netflix, Veronica is full of well-executed scares and demonic imagery that will haunt audiences. During a solar eclipse, a teenage girl (Sandra Escacena) uses an Ouija board with her friends to summon her father. Afterward, she becomes plagued by evil forces. Veronicafeatures all the unease and spookiness of any possession film, but what really makes it so memorable and frightening is the fact that it is loosely based on a true story. It t...
Director: Alexandre Aja
While the 1977 version of The Hills Have Eyesis definitely a horror classic, its 2006 remake is certainly more effective and brutal, and might even be a better version. The film follows a family traveling to California to celebrate an anniversary, but things turn nightmarish when they are captured by mutated cannibals. The Hills Have Eyesfeatures extreme gore and repulsive elements like animal cruelty and sexual assault, with certain scenes that are particularly hard to stomach. It will make...
Director: Scott Derrickson
Considered by many to be the scariest modern horror film of all time, Sinister is… well, pretty darn sinister. Ethan Hawkeplays Ellison Oswald, a true crime non-fiction crime writer who moves his family into a house where gruesome murders took place. Desperate for inspiration for his work, he delves into who may have been responsible for those murders, but his research reveals horrifying discoveries. The film has a simple plot but is executed in a way that will be lodged in your subconscious...
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- No Reason (2010) First is a film by gore FX wizard Olaf Ittenbach called “No Reason”. “No Reason” is a movie that at present you can order overseas but that has yet to find proper US distribution.
- The Burning Moon (1992) Olaf Ittenbach has been long heralded as a master of extreme cinema. His library of works proves this statement over and over with all sorts of horrific practical effects-based scenarios that rest heavily on gore and violence.
- L inferno (1911) 2 An ol classic by film standards, you may have come across snippets of images over the years used in illustration or documentaries that cover the subject of Hell.
- Hellraiser II: Hellbound (1988) You would expect every Hellraiser film to depict hell in some form or the other, though it was Hellraiser II: Hellbound that really took us into the abyss to visit the lair of the cenobites and the dreaded underworld per way of the “Lament Configuration,”.
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- Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) Not all movies depicting hell necessarily have to be of a horror persuasion, and Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey managed to serve up a pretty chilling afterlife.
- As Above So Below (2014) Dante's classic poem Inferno was one of the first pieces of literature to attempt to describe hell, and the found footage film As Above So Below aped its ideas from the ancient work.
- Jigoku (1960) Mixing the classic Judeo-Christian Hell imagery with Japanese mythology, 1960's Jigoku presented a surprisingly vivid account of Satan's domain.
- The Black Hole (1979) Disney is known for their squeaky clean family image, but their off-the-wall sci-fi film The Black Hole scared the wits out of countless unsuspecting kids.
Mar 23, 2024 · 1. “Hellraiser” (1987) – This cult classic horror film follows a man who unwittingly opens a portal to hell by solving a mysterious puzzle box. The movie is known for its gruesome special effects and iconic villain, Pinhead. Song Example: “Hell Awaits” by Slayer. 2.
Roaming bands of humans (Hannah Herzsprung, Stipe Erceg) struggle for survival after Earth's temperature rises 10 degrees and the sun has burned the world barren.
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