Reviews tagging 'Torture'

The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker

50 reviews

perthalus's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

Will write review later.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Murder, Sexual content, Blood, Gore, Toxic relationship, Torture, Cannibalism, Death, Violence, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Vomit, Emotional abuse, and Cursing

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Alcohol, and Incest

regaliaofchaos's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Sexual content, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Murder, Cannibalism, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Sexual assault, Gaslighting, Incest, and Medical content

sphinxofblackquartz's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Murder, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content and Torture

Minor: Sexual assault

crossbun's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Clive Barker is everything to me. All his work is so tender and human, so monstrous and twisted that one uplifts the other. They cannot be separated and once I start one of his books I simply cannot stop reading. I love how he takes characters that start out as rather boring and pathetic, outsiders, misfits, sad-sacks, (from the initial point of view), and as the story progresses, elevates them to hero status simply by letting them say that they have had ENOUGH. Clive Barker is the champion of freaks and losers, he is the voice from the darkness that whispers "don't you want to go apeshit?" and reader and character alike scream a resounding yes and then he says "ok babe go for it, you have everything to be scared of and nothing to lose" and they claw their way to liberation through the most perverse and repulsively delightful horror you've never dreamed. 

This is a fantastic introduction to his work, super fast read and plenty disturbing without delving into some of the other Really Nasty Stuff he writes about in his other works like Coldheart Canyon (also so good but YIKES!!!)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Misogyny, Murder, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Gaslighting and Infidelity

Minor: Vomit

spooky_ceph's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Murder, Death, and Body horror

Moderate: Addiction, Misogyny, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Vomit, and Torture

valkri3's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Death, Gore, Murder, Torture, and Violence

doomluz's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Hellraiser is one of my favorite horror films, so I've wanted to read this novella for a long time now. It's fairly similar to the film.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Gore, Murder, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, and Sexual violence

sexualedward's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Death, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, and Violence

Moderate: Grief, Infidelity, Self harm, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Rape, Alcohol, and Physical abuse

carrionkid's review against another edition

5.0

A fantastic cornerstone of horror that's just as solid as the movie despite, or perhaps because of, the differences between the two. Eerie and excellently paced and unbelievably tight.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Murder, Torture, Blood, and Body horror

deimosremus's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Sexual content, Torture, and Violence