tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243012679315072030.post7501857364200654072..comments2024-03-13T06:04:12.643+00:00Comments on Thoughts Of A Workshy Fop: Hellraiser The Dark Watch Book 2 (#5-8)varalys the darkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17032083859598898676noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243012679315072030.post-47533805863313719022016-09-13T22:49:50.114+01:002016-09-13T22:49:50.114+01:00I like to think she started out as as slightly mop...I like to think she started out as as slightly mopey teenager with a bit of eyeliner moaning about how few busses there were to the town centre in Hell and it sort of grew from there. <br /><br />Oh sent you that story btw Alan Robertshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14509360521332746130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243012679315072030.post-15249977965881446972016-09-13T22:36:37.112+01:002016-09-13T22:36:37.112+01:00Heh, thanks :)
I will now forever be imagining th...Heh, thanks :)<br /><br />I will now forever be imagining the disapproval of Cenobite mothers and the female Cenobite being called Mandy, lol! If she shows up in the next volume I might steal that myself and christen her as such :D I was hoping to do volume three next month but then I remembered nearly all my family have their birthdays in October/November so I have to go easy on the treats for myself until January. Booo. varalys the darkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17032083859598898676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243012679315072030.post-58843204825133520682016-09-13T22:00:01.778+01:002016-09-13T22:00:01.778+01:00Still smiling. Just imagining...
"Aww mum, a...Still smiling. Just imagining...<br /><br />"Aww mum, all the other cenobites have got one"<br /><br />"Yes, and they look ridiculous. Your friend Mandy is a lovely looking girl, then she does that to her throat. How's that going to look when she goes for an interview?"<br /><br />*sniffle* *mumble* "You're mean, it's so unfair"Alan Robertshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14509360521332746130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243012679315072030.post-80984326319155904872016-09-13T21:22:29.415+01:002016-09-13T21:22:29.415+01:00You do make me laugh; you have such a brilliant wa...You do make me laugh; you have such a brilliant way with words. I still giggle at 'girliest girl whoever girled'. I will be stealing that at some point. Alan Robertshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14509360521332746130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243012679315072030.post-9081795436853836452016-09-13T21:20:09.428+01:002016-09-13T21:20:09.428+01:00"If Pinhead jumped off a cliff (and through a..."If Pinhead jumped off a cliff (and through a portal to hell) I suppose you'd want to do that too?"<br /><br />Alan Robertshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14509360521332746130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243012679315072030.post-90361381396847949052016-09-13T21:08:42.305+01:002016-09-13T21:08:42.305+01:00Pretty much, :p
I'd have more done on my fore...Pretty much, :p<br /><br />I'd have more done on my forearms but my mum absolutely HATES the ones I already have and has said she'll disown me if I get any more. Funny, she's a real laid back hippy type in every other respect but tattoos and piercings seem to press her "old fogey" button hard. Bet Pinhead's mum doesn't nag him about his facial adornment...varalys the darkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17032083859598898676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243012679315072030.post-17749226820433271212016-09-13T20:48:46.322+01:002016-09-13T20:48:46.322+01:00Presumably every "girl with the dragon tattoo...Presumably every "girl with the dragon tattoo(s) comment has already been made? <br /><br />Still really cool though.<br />Alan Robertshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14509360521332746130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243012679315072030.post-51088485073480398562016-09-13T20:13:06.723+01:002016-09-13T20:13:06.723+01:00Macaroons are evil enough on their own!
There'...Macaroons are evil enough on their own!<br /><br />There's going to be another Hellraiser film this year or next, not sure. To be honest it doesn't look great, but I am intrigued by the fact it's going to have Heather Lagenkamp, best know for being Nancy in various Nightmare On Elm Street films in it.<br /><br />I love dragons, I have four dragon tattoos decorating my upper arms, not sure I'd want to sleep with one though, as you say a cough or a sneeze could result in some seriously unsexy scorching!varalys the darkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17032083859598898676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243012679315072030.post-9166013578080582672016-09-13T19:20:12.426+01:002016-09-13T19:20:12.426+01:00I've spent the last half hour trying to work t...I've spent the last half hour trying to work the word 'macaroon' into a horror context. I'll keep at it. <br /><br />But yeah I liked the pleasure/pain proto S&M aspects of Hellraiser. It was its USP and I'm sad that it's now just another generic demon series. And I love pervy. Before dragons became fashionable I messed around with a pitch to 2000AD as they'd started an interesting dragon story. It featured a girl getting an impromptu 'trim' when her dragon boyfriend sneezed at an inopportune moment. (It was cute though, they had adventures together)Alan Robertshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14509360521332746130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243012679315072030.post-15151779774510297312016-09-13T18:25:31.101+01:002016-09-13T18:25:31.101+01:00I must say having watch all nine films, I amazed a...I must say having watch all nine films, I amazed at how easy the Lament Configuration is to solve, just a couple of clicks and a quick swirly of the thumb on the circle and before you know it you have chains attached to your nipples. Honestly the major hassle seems to be lighting all the candles you sit cross-legged in the midst of.<br /><br />I like the idea of Heck-Raiser. Instead of S&M demons, you get a couple of kindly old folk who offer you tea and biscuits.<br /><br />As far as I can see, you pay in blood for your delights, although once the sex part had been pruned away from the text they become just common demons which the comic seems to have gone with. I miss the pervy stuff :Dvaralys the darkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17032083859598898676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243012679315072030.post-5398036714399809252016-09-13T17:17:32.295+01:002016-09-13T17:17:32.295+01:00"We have such delights to show you"
&qu..."We have such delights to show you"<br /><br />"Are they free?"Alan Robertshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14509360521332746130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243012679315072030.post-17162194230800795672016-09-13T17:15:31.962+01:002016-09-13T17:15:31.962+01:00Oops, double post. Has anyone ever done "Heck...Oops, double post. Has anyone ever done "Heck Raiser"? I'm thinking of doing a more Yorkshire version.Alan Robertshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14509360521332746130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243012679315072030.post-11345210071061774322016-09-13T17:12:57.997+01:002016-09-13T17:12:57.997+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Alan Robertshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14509360521332746130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243012679315072030.post-26923612023492066462016-09-13T17:11:20.608+01:002016-09-13T17:11:20.608+01:00Once I'd got over the initial confusion ("...Once I'd got over the initial confusion ("Hang on, I thought he died in the first reel") I very much enjoyed it too. It tallied with certain philosophies some (very close) friends and I shared. No one got torn to pieces though I'm glad to report.<br /><br />Also we didn't have a lament configuration, so we had to make do with a rubik cube.Alan Robertshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14509360521332746130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243012679315072030.post-74138227156711972102016-09-13T17:02:53.126+01:002016-09-13T17:02:53.126+01:00Those were the days, when you might catch a glimps...Those were the days, when you might catch a glimpse of a bare boob in a PG rated film if you were lucky. Of course to get back on topic, the sex n'death mash-up of the first Hellraiser film really blew the teenage me's mind. I actually did a seminar presentation on The Hellbound Heart and Hellraiser for one of my Women's Studies MA modules too.varalys the darkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17032083859598898676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243012679315072030.post-62155421475259996352016-09-13T16:12:32.716+01:002016-09-13T16:12:32.716+01:00Ah, how we got our thrills before the internet; ki...Ah, how we got our thrills before the internet; kids today don't know they're born. <br /><br />I feel sorry for them though, they'll never understand the frisson of 30 seconds of Cleo Rocos as Miss Whiplash on Kenny Everett. Alan Robertshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14509360521332746130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243012679315072030.post-75170882592404475442016-09-13T15:26:13.374+01:002016-09-13T15:26:13.374+01:00Fan service is a term that's expanded a bit. ...Fan service is a term that's expanded a bit. I think it's justa politer term than one that was in use about ten years ago - "fan wank" ie: lots of stuff for fans to "get off" on. Of course it does still mean stuff for the gents and the ladeez too, I guess it's a context thing. I like that term of your old flame though, I was watching Weird Science earlier today and Kelly Le Brock in her undies was sending me to my happy place.varalys the darkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17032083859598898676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243012679315072030.post-17769480433849402042016-09-13T13:56:01.443+01:002016-09-13T13:56:01.443+01:00I thought fan service was girls in comics "sh...I thought fan service was girls in comics "showing their next week's washing"<br /><br />(As an old flame rather adoringly put it)Alan Robertshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14509360521332746130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243012679315072030.post-79569839782593191182016-09-13T05:43:58.933+01:002016-09-13T05:43:58.933+01:00It's definitely full of fan service that is mo...It's definitely full of fan service that is most likely lost on a non-fan I agree. Still it is well written, just wish the art was better then it might have wider appeal...varalys the darkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17032083859598898676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243012679315072030.post-37818270547551608142016-09-12T22:31:38.320+01:002016-09-12T22:31:38.320+01:00this is probably more a thing for fans of the seri...this is probably more a thing for fans of the series, than casual readers I guess. still amazed there has been nine films in the series though!G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243012679315072030.post-90745243485459957132016-09-12T18:04:38.902+01:002016-09-12T18:04:38.902+01:00There's actually been NINE Hellraiser films th...There's actually been NINE Hellraiser films though for the purposes of this comic only the first two and broad strokes of the third count. Being a horror fan I own all bar the last one on dvd, the most recent one was a terrible ashcan film that drove Barker into a hilarious twitter meltdown. Not good.<br /><br />The first film is one of my favourite horror films ever, and still has an uneasy power to chill even to this day, like you said the juxtaposition between the normal family life and its destruction by a horrific interloper is powerful stuff.varalys the darkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17032083859598898676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243012679315072030.post-57747446548350242682016-09-12T11:59:27.224+01:002016-09-12T11:59:27.224+01:00Ah Clive Barker. I had a brief flirtation with his...Ah Clive Barker. I had a brief flirtation with his work after Hellraiser came out. I enjoyed Books of Blood and Weaveworld, there was something quite intriguing about horror set in a very familiar British* urban environment. <br /><br />*The British aspect was important, not just for parochial reasons, but there was something pleasantly surreal about a horror story being set in say Birmingham or on a council estate. That juxtaposition of the familiar and the extraordinary is commonplace now, but at the time it was very novel, and it made it much easier to identify with and therefore feel invested in the characters.<br /><br />As to Helleaoers itself, I can only recall seeing the first film. I didn't really follow after that. I did remember though reading one story (can't recall if prose or comic) in an anthology of short tales set in the coenobite world. It was about a foetus that had other miscarried or been aborted and how the cenobites took care of it. I remember at the time to was just so cute and, in a bizarre way, rather heartwarming. It was about the only story where the cenobites were clearly the good guys as opposed to anti-heroes.<br /><br />(Thinking about it now I wonder if there was any political sub-text. Never occurred to me at the time, but I suppose there are all sorts of implications in there)Alan Robertshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14509360521332746130noreply@blogger.com