As a cultural movement, the Italian Renaissance affected only a small part of the population. Italy was the most urbanized region of Europe, but three quarters of the people were still rural peasants. For this section of the population, life remained essentially unchanged from the Middle Ages.
Although I enjoyed the book, The Hellbound Heart, the movie version, Hellraiser - with the awesomely cheesy blue and yellow 80's FX - is a bit better and mainly because it was more fully realized.
hellraiser & hellbound: hellraiser ii â female cenobite. Played brilliantly by two talented ladies, first by Grace Kirby in HELLRAISER and then by Barbie Wilde in HELLBOUND. Both actors brought forth their A-Game, adding a charming nastiness to PINHEADâs original motley crew.