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• heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I recently heard about how the Hellraiser movies helped represent the kinky community

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  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Misrepresent, you mean? Yeah, the Cenobites are dressed up as kinksters, and that’s done to play upon the ick reaction that the mainstream has towards kink. That’s exactly the kind of thing I’m talking about, and it’s probably the reason why their outfits are much less BDSM in the reboot.

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    • SaraTonin@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Clive Barker says that the story is him working out his feelings about discovering he’s gay, and his experiences at BDSM nightclubs

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      • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sounds likely. I don’t have any reason to doubt him. I’m aware of the themes in Hellraiser. Seen the movies, read the book. (The first one, anyway.) It’s pretty obvious. It’s not subtle. The whole “person seeks out extremes of sensation and winds up with much more than they bargained for” is a recurring trope.

        That doesn’t change the fact that the bad guys are dressed kinky, and no, they don’t use safe words. It’s supposed to freak you out. In fact, I would even say that Hellraiser is one of the worst in that regard.

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  • Drusas@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So many of us loved that film without quite being able to say why.

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