The splatterpunks count as their most notable acolyte Clive Barker, whose film Hellraiser, also from 1987, delivers some of the decade's most graphic gore as well as
its most poetic moments of horror.
A rare Hollywood film that deals with both the violence and the turmoil and the regret these men face when they slow to catch their breath, it's searing for
most the emotional ride, with some genuinely chilling
moments of impulsive human malevolence and a morally ambiguous climax that twists the knife of
poetic justice.