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- Constantine (2005) Based on the beloved DC Comics character, Francis Lawrence's Constantine is about John Constantine, an exorcist who hopes to delay his damned soul's inevitable descent into Hell.
- What Dreams May Come (1998) After Chris dies from an accident, he awakens in Heaven, a serene place that looks exactly like his wife's beautiful landscape paintings.
- L'Inferno (1911) A loose adaptation of Dante Alighieri's Inferno, Francesco Bertolini's L'Inferno is also the very first Italian feature film. Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante journeys through the Nine Circles of Hell, and they encounter Satan, harpies, and other demons feasting on the corpses of humans.
- As Above, So Below (2014) In the catacombs beneath Paris, a team of treasure hunters search for an ancient relic that can not only grant immortality but also transmute any common metals into gold.
- Hellraiser. Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence. 238 votes. Featuring the iconic Pinhead and his fellow Cenobites, this classic horror film delves into the world of sadomasochistic demons summoned by a mysterious puzzle box called the Lament Configuration.
- Hellbound: Hellraiser II. Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Kenneth Cranham. 191 votes. The second installment in the Hellraiser franchise expands upon the Cenobite mythology, introducing a new villain, Dr. Chenard, who becomes obsessed with the Lament Configuration.
- Constantine. Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf. 286 votes. This supernatural thriller, based on the DC comics anti-hero John Constantine, traverses the boundaries of heaven, hell, and everything in between.
- Event Horizon. Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan. 256 votes. This sci-fi horror thriller takes viewers on a journey through a derelict spaceship that mysteriously reappears after a failed interstellar voyage.
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This film, set in Japan during the 1960s, interweaves the tales of several different sinners as they are perched on the precipice of death and hell. It is most notable for its full-color, unflinching depiction of humans being tormented while swirling around in molten lava. It is also considered the first film to make extensive use of full-color gor...
Christina Raines stars as Alison Parker, a gorgeous but suicidal fashion model who moves into a historic building in Brooklyn Heights and almost immediately begins suffering from fainting spells and insomnia. She is at first dismissed as crazy when she starts seeing hellish hallucinations in various rooms of the building—and she is at first suspect...
In this fantasy horror film by director Ridley Scott, Tim Curry of Rocky Horror Picture Show fame stars as Darkness, a demonic character who lives below the ground and seeks to bring eternal night to the beautiful world of elves and unicorns and sunshine that flourish just above the Earth’s crust. He also has evil designs on the Fairy Princess Lili...
Clive Barker’s original classic would spawn nine additional sequels by 2018 to become what is undeniably the largest hell-related movie franchise in history. In Hellraiser, the “hell” is “raised” when someone tinkers with a small mirrored cube variously known as the Lament Configuration Box or The Devil’s Toy Box, which can inadvertently open a por...
Picking up where Hellraiserleft off, the sequel finds Kirsty Cotton (Ashley Laurence) confined to an asylum because no one will believe her story that her father (Andrew Robinson) is stuck screaming in hell and being tortured by sadistic demons due to the double-crossing of her devil-worshiping mother (Clare Higgins). To help rescue her father from...
This is the only movie about hell to win an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects merely for how vividly it depicted the underworld. Robin Williams stars as Chris Nielsen, a pediatrician who dies in a car accident and finds himself in heaven. But shortly after his death, his wife (Annabella Sciorra) commits suicide and is sent to hell. Chris makes ...
This animated feature is mostly a heartwarming story about a murdered dog named Charlie (voiced by Burt Reynolds), who returns to Earth and adopts an orphan girl who has the ability to communicate with animals. She sends him on the path of his killer. But there is a very graphic scene in which Charlie dreams that he has been condemned to hell that ...
File this one neatly into the “hell as a state of mind” category. Tim Robbins portrays returning Vietnam Vet Jacob Singer. Traumatized after a brutal attack on his platoon by the Viet Cong, he returns to New York City to find himself tormented by grisly hallucinations and horrifying flashbacks. While in a mental hospital, a friend seeking to help h...
Bill & Ted, along with Wayne & Garth and Beavis and Butt-head, were a pair of quintessential 1980s dudes—fun-loving but not entirely bright. In the sequel to 1989’s Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, our heroes are inexplicably replaced by robot replicants of themselves. Their corporeal selves fall down a black hole for what seems like minutes until...
Director Peter Jackson made this film before he became one of Hollywood’s most bankable auteurs. It stars Michael J. Fox as an an architect who loses his wife in a car accident and subsequently realizes the tragedy has granted him the ability to see ghosts. He must team up with a gang of sympathetic ghosts to stop a murderer who has returned from t...
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Aug 2, 2024 · Thankfully, creators have imagined all sorts of different Hells - ranging from animated features and buddy comedies to horror movies about demons - so there's bound to be at least one depiction that fills you with existential dread.
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- No Reason (2010) First is a film by gore FX wizard Olaf Ittenbach called “No Reason”. “No Reason” is a movie that at present you can order overseas but that has yet to find proper US distribution.
- The Burning Moon (1992) Olaf Ittenbach has been long heralded as a master of extreme cinema. His library of works proves this statement over and over with all sorts of horrific practical effects-based scenarios that rest heavily on gore and violence.
- L inferno (1911) 2 An ol classic by film standards, you may have come across snippets of images over the years used in illustration or documentaries that cover the subject of Hell.
- Hellraiser II: Hellbound (1988) You would expect every Hellraiser film to depict hell in some form or the other, though it was Hellraiser II: Hellbound that really took us into the abyss to visit the lair of the cenobites and the dreaded underworld per way of the “Lament Configuration,”.
Jul 11, 2016 · With ‘Baskin’ re-opening the doors to damnation, we look at some of the best horror films involving gateways to Hell!
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Oct 15, 2022 · While the conventional description of hell is scary and paints a violent picture. Overtime, the impact of hell’s potency has deteriorated, and we have gotten desensitized to the full...
