That too has been quietly fixed with this release, the far left of the screen previously that showed part of the set now shifted and removed…another Arrow quiet admission to a framing issue that for years they denied ever was? And yet, the film doesn’t just take big swings, it takes massive ones and there’s still enough of that original vision here to be applauded. He expertly walks the line being a terrifying monster whilst delivering cutting one liners with confidence and not damaging the brand or heritage in the process. Flesh is a Trap* (HD; 18:19) offers an almost metaphysical analysis of Barker's oeuvre by Guy Adams. It looks much more film-like, is even and banishes the slightly splotchy rendering it had on the previous 1080p releases…and has the knock-on effect of rendering fine detail with that extra little bit of clarity.

There were always a lot of filtered shots used across the three films – more so in the second film – that meant this sharpness is not uniform, but neither should it, this softness inherent to the source material and at least here there’s been no attempts to try and balance this across the picture. Bartender Cenobite who carries a cocktail mixer and uses it to throw gasoline at victims before breathing fire on them.

Justin has been with Digital Spy since 2010, and in that time, has covered countless major news events for DS from the US. Experience the sublime agony of this quartet of torment like you never have before in all-new 4k restorations from the original camera negatives. Hellraiser 3 brings its own ideas and vision to the series but is sensible enough to remember its roots.

Then, Hellraiser: Bloodline sinks its hooks into past, present and future with the story of Phillip LeMarchand, the 18th-century toymaker who made the lament configuration puzzle box, his descendent John Merchant – a 20th-century architect whose most recent building bears a striking resemblance to the lament configuration – and Dr. For this set, the first four movies in the Hellraiser series — all featuring Doug Bradley as the Cenobite leader Pinhead — have been completely remastered from their original camera negatives by Arrow Films. Until here, sex in horror films was either criminal or punishable, yet suddenly it became something else…something far greater, better, worse, something impressionable young minds were blown by…literally. Narrative contrivances abound, but with Julia bursting forth from her bloodbound prison, all begins to be forgiven.simply baffles rather than intrigues – the power of those visions that seemed spewed from…not even hell but somewhere else, somewhere we hadn’t, couldn’t even have thought of, remains. Hedonist Frank Cotton ( Sean Chapman) thinks he has reached the limits of earthly pleasure, but a mysterious puzzle box will take him further than he can possibly imagine, opening the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible and summoning the Cenobites, whose experiments in the higher reaches of experience will tear Frank’s soul apart. Yes, horror, but at its heart is a story of love, longing, obsession, lust and the abject boredom and the familiarity of marriage.