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- If you want horror movies that actually take place in hell, your options include Jacob's Ladder, Hellraiser II, and Dark Angel: The Ascent. Good scary movies about hell (that don't necessarily take place in hell) include From Hell, Drag Me to Hell, and The Ninth Gate.
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Jun 13, 2024 · If you want horror movies that actually take place in hell, your options include Jacob's Ladder, Hellraiser II, and Dark Angel: The Ascent. Good scary movies about hell (that don't necessarily take place in hell) include From Hell, Drag Me to Hell, and The Ninth Gate.
- 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,”.
- 15 The Sentinel
- 14 Legend
- 13 Hellbound: Hellraiser II
- 12 Jacob's Ladder
- 11 Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
- 10 Spawn
- 9 Event Horizon
- 8 What Dreams May Come
- 7 South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
- 6 Little Nicky
Unrelated to the 2006 political thriller starring Michael Douglas, 1977's The Sentinel still features a comparably all-star cast. With everyone from Hollywood royalty such as John Carradine, Ava Gardner, and Burgess Meredith to A Nightmare Before Christmas' terrific Chris Sarandon, the film's Hellish apartment is intermittently populated with some ...
Probably the most lighthearted movie on this Hellish list, Ridley Scott's beloved fantasy epic Legend took a while to stand on financially successful legs. Critics and audiences didn't care for it at the time, but thanks to a superior Director's Cut it's found its audience. The film's grim, almost serpentine rendition of Hell is one of the most gor...
Clive Barker's Hellraiser revolutionized horror cinema so well that it got a major shout-out from none other than Stephen King. Unfortunately, none of its sequels ever quite touched the original's greatness. But they mostly tried to match it in terms of creativity, and there's an argument to be made that the best sequel — Hellbound: Hellraiser II —...
Erotic thriller master Adrian Lyne — Flashdance, 9 1/2 Weeks, Fatal Attraction — dropped the erotic aspect in favor of what's seemingly a straightforward thriller. But Jacob's Ladder is anything but, instead becoming an allegory for PTSD and, ultimately, the passing from life to death. The film doesn't literally show Hell, but the paces it puts Tim...
Fans flip-flop on which is better, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure or its sequel, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. There's an argument to be made for both, but Bogus Journey is certainly the more bizarrely creative. Bogus Journey is also the only one of three Bill & Ted films to feature a trip down to Hell. There, they meet Death, who is perfectly port...
Without a doubt, Spawn has aged poorly. Michael Jai White's performance as the titular character is solid, and John Leguizamo gives a career-best performance as The Clown/Violator, but the narrative often drifts, and the special effects have landed in the laughable territory. Never is this more obvious than in the third act when Spawn descends to H...
Before Paul W. S. Anderson was directing the majority of the Resident Evil films he was directing Laurence Fishburne and Sam Neill in his best film to date: Event Horizon. Part sci-fi, part psychological horror, the big-budget scarer has gone on to be one of the late 1990s most beloved cult films. Anderson's whip-smart and genuinely tense film take...
Ambitious but ultimately somewhat misguided, What Dreams May Come would've needed a miracle to become a financial success on its $90 million budget (via Variety). But there are bright spots in the heartbreaking film, such as the special effects, which isn't surprising considering that $90 million budget (for a drama much less) was in the 1990s. The...
It's pretty wild to think that Trey Parker and Matt Stone's cinematic South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut came out during the series' third year, especially given the fact it's now on Season 26. The series was notoriously met with controversy right out of the gate, and the movie was no different. And, technically, South Park is still generating cont...
Little Nicky was Adam Sandler's first flop after a long string of financial mega hits. After leading Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, The Waterboy, and Big Daddy it seemed that Sandler could do no wrong. But a high budget, a focus on production design over laughs or plot, and a truly grating lead performance by Sandler (even to his die hard fans) made...
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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.
5 days ago · More modern interpretations of hell don’t depict it as a place but rather a state of mind where suffering comes from eternal separation from God’s love. Whether you see hell as an actual place or a state of extreme mental distress, here are some of the best movies ever made about hell.
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We included horror films that take place in Hell like Jacob’s Ladder (1990) and Hellraiser II (1988). Other movies listed below like Drag Me to Hell (2009), The Ninth Gate (1999), and Prince of Darkness (1987) heavily reference Hell with either demons and creatures from the Underworld.
Oct 10, 2022 · With a new Hellraiser flick on the horizon, movie buffs may find themselves looking back on other films that depict the scariest setting of all: hell itself. The mythological nightmare realm has cropped up again and again in film history, and some of the scariest depictions leave audiences shaken.
