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I know everybody and their giant spider on a leash has some kind of queer reading of Decker when the text seems way more interested in using him as way of showing how institutional bigotry uses queer people as a shadow self for all of straight society's cruelties, in a sort of orientalist way. But!! It compels me. The mask is a mockery, a parody of what the Nightbreed are, similar enough that the pitchforks and torches crowd can't tell the difference. The fact that he loses his slasher groove without it is like, okay, also more of that shadow-self stuff, he can't admit it's him– he's reliant on the imagined evil of the Other to excuse his own evil. But the mask is also not that shallow a parody. There's something incredibly earnest to it, especially in the movie. Like it's very "this is what I would look like as a nightbreed" which is not something an ostensibly straight guy spends so much time thinking about and carefully constructing. He's almost in a grey area that the dialectic he's made himself the myrmidon for doesn't have a place for, isn't he? I mean maybe not. Maybe this whole thing is poisoned by how beautiful I find David Cronenberg. But still. Much to think about.

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Unhinged thought of the day: they 100% should have given Pinhead a belly button piercing in the Hellraiser movies

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the evil dead ones

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i get so bored and i make one fucking million edits of text post!!! so many i cannot even fit in one single post!!!

i also have. many evil dead ones. i love doing this

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Clive Barker and David Cronenberg behind the scenes of NIGHTBREED (1990)

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I just want to clarify: Pinhead leaving Dead by Daylight is down to shitty greedy license holders, not BHVR. BHVR took an incredibly shitty deal in order to get Pinhead into the game at all, and there were struggles the whole way. The whole plan was rushed because the license for Hellraiser was expiring to begin with, so BHVR did what they could to get the license before the rights reverted to the original owner. They paid a lot of money, and forced themselves into shit they didnt want to do, namely, the owners of Hellraiser at the time wanted to milk it with NFTs and only allowed BHVR to use Pinhead if they could use anything BHVR made with Pinhead to make NFTs. They were basically forced into it, and fun fact: the pushback for those NFTs were so bad by the community, planned additional skins for the Cenobite were canned, and the game was almost delisted from steam.

BHVR risked their reputation and entire game just to get Hellraiser in any form they could. It sucks that shitty license holders are making things worse for everyone.

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hi tumblies i made a discord server for VOCAMETAL ENJOYERS literally nobody is here yet but come onnn come on 😁😁 please

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Hellraiser (random daily sketch)

The signature name thing is just jest from Discord.

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hi guys this is me if i was a cenobite. sigh if u even care. sound off in the tags if ud hit them with your car. very fun to draw a little ME cenobite i think everyone should do this

all the cenobites have silly ass names so their name is The Splits. get it. because of the uhhh. the splits. that they. have.

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i wrote an entire essay about this for a final so mueheheheh

ive seen hellraiser criticisms that are like "clive barkers depictions of queer characters are hard to distinguish from right wing ideologies" but like he released nightbreed and i never see anything for it and that was a pretty fuckn explicit allegory for gay bars being raided and just being queer in general (lori and boone r literally t4t)

the cenobites had to be invited uncle frank asked for infinite pleasures and you cant have pleasures without pain. i think freaks can be freaks with fellow freaks the issue was frank being a horrible person. cenobites just made him more theatrical. i think people just see monsters as this infectious plauge that need to be eliminated or maybe normalized is the better word but you cant ignore how they were treated. they have always been there they always will be there and we have to work with the monsters terms

idk im exhausted kinda had an anxiety attack earlier and watching horror movies helps. i love hellraiser and nightbreed so much and i have so many feelings. ik clive barker is british but being queer there isnt better. i just dont know a lot of the specifics of british queer history but im watching nightbreed directors cut right now and all i can think of is the raids and stonewall and reagan... probly shouldve just watched saw or house of 1000 corpses for my anxiety but oh well

i know i watch too much horror and old shit so my perspective is skewed but when people now see old gay stuff like hellraiser or rocky horror it is uncomfortable and they mix that with homophobia bc it fits their perspective. and queer people can be homophobic but i dont think thats happening here. idk idk just thinking thoughts. i didnt even read the article review or whatever but its stuck in my mind for a while.

tldr: whatever guillermo del toro said about monsters and outsiders fits with the gays and weird bdsm freaks are cool

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ive seen hellraiser criticisms that are like "clive barkers depictions of queer characters are hard to distinguish from right wing ideologies" but like he released nightbreed and i never see anything for it and that was a pretty fuckn explicit allegory for gay bars being raided and just being queer in general (lori and boone r literally t4t)

the cenobites had to be invited uncle frank asked for infinite pleasures and you cant have pleasures without pain. i think freaks can be freaks with fellow freaks the issue was frank being a horrible person. cenobites just made him more theatrical. i think people just see monsters as this infectious plauge that need to be eliminated or maybe normalized is the better word but you cant ignore how they were treated. they have always been there they always will be there and we have to work with the monsters terms

idk im exhausted kinda had an anxiety attack earlier and watching horror movies helps. i love hellraiser and nightbreed so much and i have so many feelings. ik clive barker is british but being queer there isnt better. i just dont know a lot of the specifics of british queer history but im watching nightbreed directors cut right now and all i can think of is the raids and stonewall and reagan... probly shouldve just watched saw or house of 1000 corpses for my anxiety but oh well

i know i watch too much horror and old shit so my perspective is skewed but when people now see old gay stuff like hellraiser or rocky horror it is uncomfortable and they mix that with homophobia bc it fits their perspective. and queer people can be homophobic but i dont think thats happening here. idk idk just thinking thoughts. i didnt even read the article review or whatever but its stuck in my mind for a while.

tldr: whatever guillermo del toro said about monsters and outsiders fits with the gays and weird bdsm freaks are cool

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man, I love that weird late 80s dark fantasy movie with a bunch of brothers grimm esque fairytale allegories. the one where a girl (with a stepmother she hates) journeys into an extra dimensional labyrinth with strange creatures and vines and loose eyeballs all over the place. because an english supernatural entity who’s the ruler of a league of Creatures supposedly stole their family member away… but the supernatural entity keeps flirting with them thru psychological warfare and tempting them with their own desires and a mystical object. you know the one with all the practical effects and the abstract sort of surrealist ending…. wtf is Jim Henson’s Labyrinth????? That’s Hellbound: Hellraiser II.

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i only watch horror movies that are insane. movies that are freaking it freaky style. if they are not then they are bad. if a movie is too coherent i will get bored and go to bed. the movie must be subtextually queer. if not explicitly i will make it so. the practical effects must be over stylized and unrealistic but still convincing. there must be goo and slime. characters must make evil little quips that i can say over and over to annoy those around me. the director must be a man who is just so crazy. he puts the at least one of the actors in like all of his other movies because they are friends. ideally he has a silly little cameo. it must be the 80s.

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i wish all pinhead enjoyers to be aware that doug bradley has a youtube channel wherein just he reads aloud classic horror stories.

you can and will have pinhead read you a bedtime story btw (without the voice effects, of course; maybe it sounds more like elliot spencer’s reading you a bedtime story)

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a tragedy in two parts (guess whose answer this was)

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adam excluded bc he’s not old enough to be elected into office in the us!