A review by kaipitain
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker

dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

It's quite an amazing read but it's interesting to see that almost all the changes Clive Barker would go on to make in adapting this to the screen were improvements, leaving the film to be the definitive version of this story. Something that this does better than the film is that it's allowed to be more sexually explicit than the film could show, and more restrained with the violence. I think that works in it's favour.