A review by chloeburton
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

3.0

So, I love horror movies but I’ve never seen Hellraiser. When I was really little someone in a Pinhead costume jumped out at me on Halloween and gave me nightmares for years, so as you can imagine I haven’t exactly gravitated toward it. Anyways, I’m planning on watching it now so I decided to read the book first. It was very different than I expected. I think there’s a lot of good passages here, but overall I didn’t totally vibe with the writing style. Honestly, I really just wanted more Cenobites. I could read about them all day. Really enjoyed the ending & the gore was disgusting, properly so, and that’s where the writing really impressed me. Ick.