• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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    18 hours ago

    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”

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      15 hours ago

      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.