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Credits

Director: Clive Barker Starring: Virginia Madson, Tony Todd, Xander Berkeley, Kasi Lemmons, Vanessa Williams Screenplay: Clive Barker Music: Christopher Young Tagline: "It will tear your soul apart" Country: UK

The film follows a thrill seeker, Frank played by Sean Chapman, who is after the ultimate pleasure trip. He has passed the point where sex and drugs are of any use to him; he needs more and thinks he has found it in the form of a mysterious puzzle box. Legend has it that this cube unlocks such pleasures that his desires will be sated beyond his wildest dreams. Unfortunately these delights come in the form of the Cenobites who quite literately rip his soul to pieces.

We return to the scene of Frank's demise a few months later, Larry, Frank's brother, played by Andrew Robinson and his new wife Julia, Clare Higgins, have moved into the house. Whilst moving a small accident drips blood onto Franks remains as he is resurrected with a rabid bloodlust to rebuild his shattered body. He seduces his ex lover Higgins into murdering a succession of men and feeds on their blood to replenish his own supply. Soon all he needs is a new skin to complete the gory picture. Unbeknownst to this evil spirit the Cenobites have discovered that he has escaped his limbo and is about to walk the earth again. A bizarre truce between Robinson's daughter Kirsty, played by Ashley Lawrence and Pinhead, the lead Cenobite, is formed to destroy the evil Frank once and for all but at what cost to Lawrence's sanity. To tell much more will spoil a classic tale for the few visitors to this site who haven't already seen it.