Hellraiser (1987, GBR) C-94m. *** D: Clive Barker. Starring Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Sean Chapman, Oliver Smith, Robert Hines, Doug Bradley. Horror novelist Clive Barker's directorial debut is a splatter movie milestone. Robinson moves into his missing brother's house with his family, unknowing that the sibling is waiting upstairs in a skeletal state, waiting for fresh blood ever since he opened the gate to hell with a magical cube. Gruesome, serious horror will probably put you off you dinner, but no horror fan should complain. Barker also scripted, from his novel The Hellbound Heart. Followed by quite a lot of sequels, starting with HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER II (1988).