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Argumentative Essay About Hellraiser
I consider myself a pretty big Hellraiser fan. I own all the movies (yes, even Revelations on Blu-ray) and I own several books, comics, action figures and a few Lament Configuration replicas. I absolutely love Hellraiser, plain and simple. Hellraiser hasn't been doing too bad lately. We have a comic series from BOOM! Studios, Gary J. Tunnicliffe is currently working on a new Hellraiser movie, Hellraiser: Judgment and Hellraiser creator Clive Barker finally finished his destruction of Pinhead in The Scarlet Gospels, which in my opinion, was a big disappointment. On what would normally be a completely unrelated note, Sherlock Holmes has also never been more popular than it is today, with a couple TV shows and a movie series. It seems Holmes is …show more content…
Who better to place the Hellraiser mythologies into Sherlock Holmes' world. And not only does he masterfully mix the two, he also brings together the Hellraiser films, the comics, the Hellbound Hearts short stories and, in what can only be described as a miracle, he is able to connect The Scarlet Gospels world to the Hellraiser world we …show more content…
Well, the second half felt a bit rushed to be perfectly honest. I would have a loved to see the story stretched out a bit more. Maybe stretch out the first half as well. (Honestly, it's hardly a complaint when I want a book to be longer!) The only other thing that kept nagging me was where exactly does Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell fall into in the context of the Hellraiser series? Is it a prequel to The Hellbound Heart or is it part of the movie series? The book does have a few sequences that gives us glimpses of things to come that happened in the movies, but it also tries to distance itself a bit from them and make it its own beast. I do love that it tries to connect everything like I mentioned before, but sometimes having a clearer picture of where it stands in relation to the series is a nice thing to

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