Hellraiser - Come to Daddy

 Yikes. Granted when Julia tells Frank she'd do anything he wants, I believe her wholeheartedly. I asked myself while watching Hellraiser (1987) again, why is Julia with Larry to begin with. I don't think the entire time they are together they fit at all. Julia looks as if Larry makes her skin crawl on her worst days and shows outright boredom and apathy towards him on her best days. The moment Julia lays eyes on Frank, though, SWOON! He's wet and cold, but you'd think Julia saw the man of her dreams. I don't think he's ever not off-putting or creepy. But to Julia he's a stud she just wants to fuck at all times. Even when he doesn't have his fucking skin, Julia wants to mount him. That's a guy who has a hold on someone!

When you will lure guys to an upper room in an old brownstone and just smash them over and over so your former lover, and husband's brother, can gain his body whole, I think it's safe to say that's commitment at the highest level! And when Frank is willing to just murder Larry for his skin and Julia happy-go-lucky about it, you know a film has reached a special level of depraved. I can see why the Cenobites from their hell miss Frank...he is the kind of guy that belongs with them!

These makeup effects are just off the charts exceptional. I mean, they are ick, but I guess I'm a horror fan who appreciates attention to detail: Clive Barker gradually letting Frank gain form while showing him in various stages of development, needing blood just to get where he needs to be, the hard work pays off! I totally understood back in the late 80s when HBO showed it and my uncle recorded it, hearing about the film and finally seeing "Hellraiser", that its reputation was on point!

Joe Bob going on a monologue about Colin Kapernick bending the knee and others bending the knee, talking about the Star Spangled Banner, and all of that, I was amused that all of this was during a special lengthy marathon, right before "Hellraiser".