Watching Cabin in the Woods, this guy (Fornicus, Lord of Bondage and Pain) made me wish there was a film about him: it seemed like it would be a classy gothic horror flick.
Turns out he’s a direct reference to Hellraiser, but Hellraiser wasn’t exactly classy: in fact, it’s the best kind of B-movie. Pinhead, who Fornicus is based on, doesn’t actually get a lot of screentime, but scenes featuring the guy demonstrate why he’s an iconic horror villain. He has amazing lines like: “No tears, please. It’s a waste of good suffering.”
Most of the film is a blatant metaphor for the guilt of a cheating wife, whose recently dead sadomasochistic lover (Frank, her husband’s brother, who hilariously talks in the “In A World…” trailer-announcer voice) has reconstituted himself as a crumbling zombie. Frank hides upstairs in her house, and demands she seduce men so that he can murder them and steal their flesh, making him whole again. She spends a lot of time fretting that her husband will find Frank’s putrescent body.
The movie concludes with an impressively insane climax. There’s even – for no apparent reason – a flaming hobo transforming into a skeletal dragon! What’s not to like?
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I don’t know how I could’ve forgotten the hobo dragon but somehow I did. I see in your history some seriously camp 80s horror films so I’m going to suggest/dare you to watch Phantasm. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079714/
Trying to remember now if it was referenced in Cabin in the Woods. I haven’t seen it in a while but if it wasn’t, it should’ve been!
Thanks for the comment! I really do need to check out Phantasm. The boxset was on sale at my local DVD store for ages (all 4 films for $20) and I kept putting off buying it until it wasn’t in stock anymore
I personally wouldn’t bother with the whole set. It turned into a franchise 10 years after the first one and much was lost in translation. I rewatched it last night with a friend with the preface, “You won’t get this 90 minutes back so let me remind you one more time that this was pre-special effects being special.” But he seemed to enjoy it. There is something unnerving about it but there is a fair amount of silly and in the third act I said, “Now this is where it gets weird.” To which, you know, it had been weird for a good hour already but it goes the extra mile.
It gives me warm fuzzies since I watched it with my dad and gave us many inside jokes. BOOOOY!
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To this day, and I’m 31, my dad calls me “Booooy!” We loved that movie.