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Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Collected Best III
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Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Collected Best III
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Sales Rank : 483230
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Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Checker Book Publishing Group August 1, 2004
Language: English
ISBN-10: 097538080X
ISBN-13: 978-0975380802
Product Dimensions:
10.1 x 6.6 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
Who'd have suspected that Clive Barker's novella The Hellbound Heart would spawn the feature film Hellraiser (helmed by the author himself), a gaggle of uneven sequels and a following that craved even more tales of twisted individuals and demonic Cenobites? At 342 pages, this third collection of the Hellraiser-inspired comicsmight look like a cornucopia of kinky chills, gore and fetishism. Yet while there is occasionally some impressive art, the overall content is extremely disappointing, pretentious and, above all, repetitive. Most of the stories follow the by-the-numbers scenario of a disaffected malcontent figuring out the solution to a puzzle box that opens a doorway into the nightmare world of the Cenobites, thereby dooming himself to eternal sadomasochistic torment. That formula is wearying after one or two run-throughs, and more than that—the 15 stories read like they came from an assembly line—is an exercise in tedium. There's also a gallery of some 100 one-page illustrations, mostly mediocre, that serves as filler. Matrix completists may be interested in the adaptations by the nonprolific director Larry Wachowski. Clive Barker's brand name notwithstanding, few will find this book worth the price.
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Product Review
Comics stories ought to work visually as much or more than verbally, and horror stories usually cry out for visual pyrotechnics, which is what they got in the Hellraiser comics. --Booklist
Overall, the stories achieve to avoid the clichés so often found in horror. With an interesting amalgam of writers and artists, these tales, though most over a decade old, still don t quite sit well in the stomach. They question the world, and the hell beneath it. Jacob Malewitz --Paperback Reader
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