Missed the whole point of the movie?
It's a satire/homage to horror. Of course they'd have a Hellraiser wink.
Can't stop the signal.
Oh yeah,....a leather clad pasty white guy with not pins, but saw blades playing with a puzzle ball instead of a puzzle cube... Yup, its all out original character there....smh
shareThey made a reference to Hellraiser because of the movie's message. They didn't want to create a rip-off for the Hellraiser film series because they felt like it.
Did you get the message of the movie?
A reference and a rip-off are not the same thing.
When Family Guy did a parody version of When You Wish Upon a Star, was that a ripoff where they were trying to write an original song and didn't think anybody would notice the similarity? No, the similarity is intentionally unambiguous, that's the entire point.
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Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the antidote to shame.
I was having trouble trying to catch all the different things they were paying homage to.
I noticed Pennywise, Deadites, rape tree, Cenobite, Werewolf, the bat seemed familiar, and I swear I saw in the hall of elevators, a one-eyed-one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater.
I dunno, but it sure looked strange to me.
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Thanks, I hadn't noticed before, the KKK guys, and I'm pretty sure the little twin girls are those creepy kids from The Shining.
shareI guess not.. All I got was ancients required sacrifices to remain underground.
shareAll I got was ancients required sacrifices to remain underground.
Well said. And to be clear, a "ripoff" would have been to use this character or the Hellraiser plot extensively rather than a brief acknowledgement.
shareThey purposely had every kind of horror character since the beginning of time, whether in folklore, books, comic books or movies. They didn't try to rip off Hellraiser. I thought it was awesome to see an homage to Hellraiser. That's like saying since there were zombies, they were ripping off TWD.
shareHomage and rip-off are not the same thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z55W6ihUY-c
Moderators are terrorists.
They included a lot of monsters from a lot of different films, not just Hellraiser.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAIJ3Rh5Qxs
Point of the movie:
Horror movies are "made" to appease ancient Gods, ala the audience ala us. Therefore, Hellraiser itself (or something similar) was an exercise in this same sort of sacrifice, hence why a cenobite homage exists within the Cube-like structure of the CITW universe.
This movie is perfect.