In what movies has Hell be shown?
The movies I know about are Altered States (1980)
The Black hole (1979)
any others?
The movies I know about are Altered States (1980)
The Black hole (1979)
any others?
Hell in film
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Does anyone remember the name of this movie? From what I remember getting to hell involved driving fast down a certain road and in hell there was like stripclubs with people in cages and such.
Is this supposed to be a trivia contest? If not, why does it seem no one bothered to check google/wikipedia?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_in_popular_culture#Film
Film
- In the 1991 film Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, the title characters end up in Hell.
- Hell is also depicted in Tex Avery's The Blitz Wolf (1942).
- Constantine (a 2005 Warner Bros. film) depicts as graphic a version of the traditional Christian version of Hell as can be found in cinema: it shows a parallel plane with many of the same buildings and structures as the normal world, but twisted, ruined and perpetually seared as if eternally hit by the blast wave of a nuclear bomb. This film is based on the DC/Vertigo comic series Hellblazer.
- A depiction of Hell based on Dante's Inferno appears in the 1935 Spencer Tracy film Dante's Inferno.
- In the film Deconstructing Harry by Woody Allen, the protagonist descends into Hell where he has a chance to learn from the Devil himself (played by Billy Crystal), among other things about the significance of having air conditioning in Hell, and then proceeds to discover his own father.
- The film Drag Me to Hell tells the story of a woman cursed by an evil gypsy. The curse will send her to Hell unless she can get rid of it.
- The film Event Horizon also deals with themes of Hell. A ship with an experimental, singularity-inducing reactor core that was supposed to travel faster than light by folding space instead entered another dimension, which is likened to Hell, and inadvertently bring a demon with it.
- In the Disney film Fantasia (1940), the "Night on Bald Mountain" sequence shows Chernobog ruling Hell.
- Hell is depicted in the Danish film classic Haxan (1922).
- Hell is subjective in the Hellraiser film series, as well as Clive Barker's novella. Upon solving the Lament Configuration, the sinner, or victim experiences a hell which they themselves defined by their own actions.
- 2000's Little Nicky depicts hell as a kingdom where monsters, giant fire birds, flying jellyfish and a large castle named the Castle of The Underworld belong. Satan (Harvey Keitel) performs tasks such as shoving a pineapple up Hitler's posterior.
- In the Pluto cartoon Pluto's Judgement Day Pluto is sent to Hell where he is punished for harming cats.
- The 2006 film Silent Hill depicts Hell numerous times throughout the film. Hell is depicted as a modern world, but decayed and rusted, populated by strange and horrific creatures.
- What Dreams May Come, a 1998 film that won an Academy Award for its depiction of heaven and hell as the subjective creations of the individual, was an essentially mystical interpretation of heaven, hell and reincarnation. Aided by his personal angel (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), an accidentally killed man (Robin Williams) leaves his personal Heaven home and searches the depths of many and varied Hells to find and rescue his wife, who is in her own damnation because the loss of her family drove her to suicide. It was based on the eponymous novel by Richard Matheson.
Film
- In the 1991 film Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, the title characters end up in Hell.
- Hell is also depicted in Tex Avery's The Blitz Wolf (1942).
- Constantine (a 2005 Warner Bros. film) depicts as graphic a version of the traditional Christian version of Hell as can be found in cinema: it shows a parallel plane with many of the same buildings and structures as the normal world, but twisted, ruined and perpetually seared as if eternally hit by the blast wave of a nuclear bomb. This film is based on the DC/Vertigo comic series Hellblazer.
- A depiction of Hell based on Dante's Inferno appears in the 1935 Spencer Tracy film Dante's Inferno.
- In the film Deconstructing Harry by Woody Allen, the protagonist descends into Hell where he has a chance to learn from the Devil himself (played by Billy Crystal), among other things about the significance of having air conditioning in Hell, and then proceeds to discover his own father.
- The film Drag Me to Hell tells the story of a woman cursed by an evil gypsy. The curse will send her to Hell unless she can get rid of it.
- The film Event Horizon also deals with themes of Hell. A ship with an experimental, singularity-inducing reactor core that was supposed to travel faster than light by folding space instead entered another dimension, which is likened to Hell, and inadvertently bring a demon with it.
- In the Disney film Fantasia (1940), the "Night on Bald Mountain" sequence shows Chernobog ruling Hell.
- Hell is depicted in the Danish film classic Haxan (1922).
- Hell is subjective in the Hellraiser film series, as well as Clive Barker's novella. Upon solving the Lament Configuration, the sinner, or victim experiences a hell which they themselves defined by their own actions.
- 2000's Little Nicky depicts hell as a kingdom where monsters, giant fire birds, flying jellyfish and a large castle named the Castle of The Underworld belong. Satan (Harvey Keitel) performs tasks such as shoving a pineapple up Hitler's posterior.
- In the Pluto cartoon Pluto's Judgement Day Pluto is sent to Hell where he is punished for harming cats.
- The 2006 film Silent Hill depicts Hell numerous times throughout the film. Hell is depicted as a modern world, but decayed and rusted, populated by strange and horrific creatures.
- What Dreams May Come, a 1998 film that won an Academy Award for its depiction of heaven and hell as the subjective creations of the individual, was an essentially mystical interpretation of heaven, hell and reincarnation. Aided by his personal angel (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), an accidentally killed man (Robin Williams) leaves his personal Heaven home and searches the depths of many and varied Hells to find and rescue his wife, who is in her own damnation because the loss of her family drove her to suicide. It was based on the eponymous novel by Richard Matheson.
I'd list Constantine, Supernatural (the TV show), Spawn, Hellboy....sort of, Percy Jackson & The Olympians:The Lightning Thief (sort of...it was the realm of Hades depicted as a Hellscape), Wrath Of The Titans (Greek Hell - Tartarus), Immortals (Tartarus again), Reaper (TV show), Drag Me To Hell?, Legion?
Dammit I was going to mention What Dreams May Come!!madwarper said:
Ok the only ones I can think of now are these three-
Dante Inferno (the animated film based from the game of the said name)
All dogs goes to heaven had a scene when the main character visualise himself in hell.
Hellboy had a brief scene in hell at the start of the film (not sure if that count).
Actually, in my opinion the best place is TVtropes for this question:madwarper said:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Hell
Depends on what reference you would use to compare it to. In Inuit mythology hell is an eternally frozen wasteland tormented by restless blizzards so in this regard I'd call it a pretty bad depiction.Marter said:
Anyway, I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Robot Hell from Futurama yet!
This person raises an interesting point about how different cultures view Hell in the context of what their experiences in the world are. The Norse imagined Hel as cold and colorless. Diyu in Chinese myth was bureaucratic with horrific torments that would probably turn Dante on, but it was also temporary. Most Christian images come from Dante and Milton, period, so no wonder they resemble nothing so much as a medieval torture chamber. Hell in Islam is almost entirely of the burning-to-death-forever kind. That makes sense for a religion from a desert-dwelling people.Quaxar said:
I've always liked Ironic Hell [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IronicHell]. In games, I believe Spec Ops: the Line could be interpreted as the eternal damnation of Captain Walker, which isn't even a stretch based on a few of his hallucinations. Movies seem pretty lousy at springing the ironic hell deal, as even the TV Tropes list is pretty brief.
Way to suck the fun out of it! lol I think the idea is to see how clever we are.madwarper said:
I only scanned the list but I didn't see Jacob's Ladder on there. But that's more of a mental image of it, I guess. I'm mostly referring to the scene where's he's on a hospital bed surrounded by evil doctors. You know the part! We all know the part!!!
Ironic hell is a beautiful concept of punishment and one reason I personally consider Ancient Greek after-death mythology far superior to the classical Judaeo-Christian concepts. Although I take it that Jewish tradition doesn't even have a proper hell, rather a <url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinnom>valley south of Jerusalem with a one-year waiting period before your entry to Eden.thedoclc said:
And even Dante would crap his pants at the notion of <url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xibalba>Xibalba, Mayan hell, where rivers of blood and pus flow and tests, trials, and traps all with deadly outcomes await mere visitory. You don't even want to know what stuff they came up with for actual inhabitants.