Sentences with word «cenobite»

One could see such highly organized assaults on boredom as parodies of the practices of cenobites in desert caves where, however, the rebellious ego and flesh were mortified, not pampered.

The lead cenobite from Clive Barker's Hellraiser and its many sequels is featured on four shirts and two pairs of socks.

Best remembered for the creepy cenobites — and all the absurd sequels they inspired — the original film in Clive Barker's long - running series is more psycho - sexual nail - biter than creature feature.

We are delighted to welcome cast member Nicholas Vince (Chatterer cenobite) and special effects supervisor Geoff Portass to discuss the production and legacy of Hellraiser in a Q&A after the film.

The video shows the abilities of the serine cybernetic cenobite which include (according to the website):

Something about Barker's prose makes the rawest obscenity seem privileged — the pleasure / pain principle of his cenobites in print, for example, is made the grail, whereas on the silver screen it dips dangerously towards kitsch and cult camp.

One of the peripheral characters, a nameless «cenobite» with a fondness for pins, would be resurrected as the antiheroic star in several sequels.

Man, those cenobites were scary cool, weren't they?

With the latter's cenobites, his most enduring contribution to popular culture2, consider that Barker's vision of an alternate, infernal reality shimmering just beneath the surface of the mundane has its roots in Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos — a dimension of Elder Gods lurking behind the doors of perception.

In the cenobites the horror genre gained a group of strikingly unique and terrifying characters, due in no small part to the performances of Doug Bradley, Nicholas Vince, Simon Bamford and Grace Kirby, and the astonishing makeup effects by Bob Keen and Geoff Portass.