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| Submit to pleasure. And nails. |
Who knew Clive Barker was such a weirdo? (Besides anyone who has seen any movie he has made/ read any of his stories).
What a delightfully bizarre film. Briefly, a man opens the fabled puzzle box and is ripped to pieces by Cenobites, demons of torment and pain. His brother moves into his house with his wife. Said wife cheated on her soon to be husband with the main who had been ripp
ed to pieces. While moving in, the husband absolutely destroys his hand on a nail and drips blood onto the floor of the room where his brother had been ripped up (the cenobites cleaned the room very well so there was no person goo in there). This blood was absorbed and the dead brother starts being reconstituted. He convinces his former lover/ brother's wife to bring home men from the bar so he can eat/ absorb them and come more back to life.
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| Someone is missing some flesh. |
I guess technically the main character/ heroine of the film is the husband's daughter, Kirsty. She doesn't feature a ton in the first half. It picks up for her when she gets the puzzle box and meets her not quite alive but very not dead uncle. She solves the puzzle box and cuts a deal with the Cenobites to save her own hide.
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| My pleasure... is ham. |
I don't want to get into too many spoilery details even though the movie is coming up on 40 years old because it's a whole lot of fun. It has a whole lot of people goo. The practical effects look fantastic. As the brother reconstitutes and adds more layers to him he looks awesome. The muscle tissue on him looks great (also the fact that he wears clothes that his bodily fluids just leak through constantly).
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| Sir you appear to have something on your shirt. |
This movie also has one of the more upsetting uses of "Come to Daddy" I've seen/ heard in a minute... Multiple times. And the partially reconstituted man watches his brother and the wife start to get frisky (which he promptly puts an end to by cutting a rat in half with a switch blade).
Overall, if you like creeps and people goo, you will like this movie. Definitely worth a spooky watch this year and any other year.
