It's October again, the scariest of months! As such, I'm going to help celebrate it in the same way as in the past couple of years--lots of posts about horror-related things, such as movie trivia quizzes about famous and great films. (Although at least one post will be about a terror-related food.) Today's test will be about "Hellraiser," the original 1987 film that started off a series that's lasted, to date, 11 total movies, with one coming out as recently as a year ago. "Hellraiser" was a lot of folks' introduction to horror author/director/painter/etc. Clive Barker. It's a nice compendium of some of his favorite themes--strange worlds and dimensions, terrifying villains, bizarre body horror, and, of course, a healthy dose of, shall we say, alternative sex. So let's get into it. The usual drill--questions first, followed by the answers. Unless noted, all of these questions will be from the movie itself, not from alternate media like the sequels, novel, comics, etc. And many SPOILERS ahead, obviously.
Questions:
1) In the opening scene, when Frank is buying the puzzle box (aka The Lament Configuration or LeMarchard's Box), what kind of drinks are on the table?
2) What country's currency does Frank use to pay for the Box?
3) When Frank opens the Box in the house, he's sitting in a square of candles. How many candles make up this box shape?
4) Of the four Cenobites, which is the first one seen in the film?
5) Pinhead is seen wearing unusual black gloves on his hands. What fingers do they cover?
6) According to Larry, how long has it been since he's set foot in the house?
7) Who owned the house, before it passed to Frank and Larry Cotton?
8) Where did Larry and Julia live previously, in a place that neither speaks of positively?
9) What day of the week do Larry and Julia move into the house?
10) What brand of beer does Larry give to the movers?
11) What famous doctor does Larry compare the physician who stitched up his hand wound to?
12) At Larry and Julia's dinner party, aside from the two of them, and Kirsty and her boyfriend, who are the three other guests?
13) Larry announces that the dinner is a celebration of something. What?
14) What is the name of Kirsty's boyfriend? (It's only mentioned once, near the end.)
15) A weird homeless guy seems to be following Kirsty throughout the film. Where is he first seen?
16) What three negative qualities does Kirsty say her boyfriend has?
17) What weapon does Julia use to kill, or at least severely wound the victims she brings home for Frank?
18) How many victims does Julia bring back for Frank?
19) Where does Kirsty work?
20) What is the house's address number?
21) After Kirsty collapses out in public after attaining the Box, several people stand over her to see if she's okay. One of them is wearing a hat with the logo of a pro sports team. Name this team.
22) Who is the first Cenobite to appear to Kirsty?
23) Who are the only two Cenobites we see touching Frank? (Usually they use their telekinetic powers to send hooks on chains into their victims' flesh, so this is rare.)
24) Who is the only Cenobite we see actually touch Kirsty?
25) Not counting the flying hooks and chains, we only see two Cenobites wielding weapons in their hands. Name them, and when it happens.
26) How many of the Cenobites can see?
27) True or False? Of the Cenobites only Pinhead actually speaks.
28) Pinhead didn't get his famous nickname until later in the series, as the fans liked it (but Clive Barker doesn't). How is he billed in the credits for this movie?
29) Who is the only Cenobite who isn't sent back to their version of Hell using the Box?
30) Who is the only Cenobite who wasn't played by the same actor in "Hellraiser 2: Hellbound"?
31) We learn that Julia is Kirsty's stepmother, not mother. What's the situation of Kirsty's birth mother?
32) Is "Hellraiser" set in England, or in the U.S.?
33) How does Frank sound like Larry after he puts on Larry's skin?
34) Of the actors playing the five main living human characters (not counting Cenobites, then)--Larry, Frank, Julia, Kirsty, and her boyfriend, how many returned for the sequel?
35) At one point the creepy homeless guy (who we learn later on is not human, and may be an incarnation of the Engineer) is seen eating something. What?
36) At one point, Larry and Julia are seen watching a sporting event on television. Which sport?
Answers:
1) It appears to be absinthe, since the drinks are a green color, and the seller puts a sugar cube in his.
2) American dollars.
3) 21 total. 6 to a side, except in the rear, where there are 7 in the line.
4) The Female Cenobite. Yes, that's her title.
5) Only his thumb, and pinkie finger are covered.
6) The better part of ten years.
7) An unidentified female relative that Larry calls "the old lady," so perhaps their mother? Grandmother? (In the novella she's identified as Larry and Frank's grandmother.)
8) Brooklyn. Or, the New York City borough in the U.S.
9) Sunday.
10) Budweiser. An American brand, obviously.
11) The infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.
12) Bill, Evelyn, and according to the credits, "Dinner guest." Only Bill's name is spoken aloud.
13) The odd, and unexplained, "Night of the Paper Hat."
14) Steve.
15) At the subway/underground train station, which she and her boyfriend go to after the party.
16) He's reportedly "so damn polite, uptight, and frigid."
17) A hammer.
18) Three, all of whom are men.
19) At a pet store.
20) 55. The street is never mentioned or shown in the movie, although the novella and other media provide it as being Lodovico Street, in the Cricklewood section of London.
21) The New York Yankees, an American Major League Baseball team.
22) Chatterer.
23) Chatterer shoves him away from the door when Frank tries to escape, and Pinhead gathers up and arranges the pieces of Frank's face in the beginning of the movie, as if solving a macabre puzzle.
24) Again, Chatterer. He grabs her the first time the Cenobites meet her, and he briefly grabs her near the end of the film.
25) The Female Cenobite has blades with a hook that she uses to cut the wall as she ascends the staircase, and Butterball has a blade with which he tries to stab Kirsty's boyfriend with at the end.
26) Apparently only Pinhead and the Female Cenobite. Because no eyes are visible on Chatterer, and we later learn that Butterball's eyes are sewn shut behind his sunglasses. I guess these two have good senses of hearing and smell which they use to track victims. Or maybe they echolocate, like bats?
27) False. The Female Cenobite isn't as chatty as Pinhead, but she does say a few things.
28) He's billed, rather boringly, as "Lead Cenobite."
29) Butterball is overcome in the debris of the collapsing house, and is not seen being sent back, with the yellow light, as are the others. So how did he re-join his comrades for the sequel? I know, it's a movie, and the special effects for the sending back moments were rushed, so the filmmakers probably didn't do it because of this, or the cost, and hoped nobody would notice. But I did!
30) The Female Cenobite was played by Grace Kirby in the first film, and by Barbie Wilde in the second one. Evidently the makeup process was lengthy and uncomfortable, so Kirby backed out.
31) Larry tells the movers that Kirsty's mother is dead. So he was either a widower, or else they divorced and then Kirsty's mom died sometime after that.
32) "Hellraiser" was filmed in England, as is obvious from some of the locations used, and the accents of much of the cast. However, late in production the studio decided it would be better if it was set in the U.S., so they added some American details and references, and overdubbed some of the British actors with American voices. Which isn't very convincing--I think it was a mistake. So technically it's set in America, but a lot of things make this kind of ridiculous.
33) Yeah, this doesn't make much sense. The voice box regrown in Frank was his, not his brother's. Evidently Frank was really good at mimicking Larry's voice. (And it's a movie, clearly.)
34) Since it often takes place in a Hellish afterlife dimension "dead" characters can reappear, remember! Three return, and two didn't. Larry and Kirsty's boyfriend do not. Andrew Robinson, who played Larry, didn't agree to appear in the second one because he felt the salary was too low. Kirsty's boyfriend (Steve) doesn't make an appearance in "Hellraiser 2" at all. A cop mentions him briefly in the beginning, saying he's fine, but he's never actually seen.
35) He crunches up a bunch of insects he steals from a tank in the pet store where Kirsty works. They look like some kind of grasshopper, or cricket.
36) A boxing match. I tried to discover who the boxers actually were, as it looks like real footage, but was unable to.
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