PugJesus@piefed.social to 196@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours agoHellraiser rules?media.piefed.socialimagemessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1192arrow-down15
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minus-squareAllNewTypeFace@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·18 hours agoClive Barker got the inspiration from the gay kink scene. It was a case of literally “you know, you could probably make a cool horror story from this”
minus-squareVoroxpete@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-215 hours agoI mean, that seems like a kind of reductive way to describe the sublimely intimate ways that Hellraiser engages with the anxieties and fears of queer culture, and especially the queer culture of the late eighties.
Clive Barker got the inspiration from the gay kink scene. It was a case of literally “you know, you could probably make a cool horror story from this”
I mean, that seems like a kind of reductive way to describe the sublimely intimate ways that Hellraiser engages with the anxieties and fears of queer culture, and especially the queer culture of the late eighties.