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.
Yes, the movie is based on Zodiac (1986), a nonfiction book by American true crime writer Robert Graysmith about the unsolved serial murders committed by the 'Zodiac Killer' in San Francisco in the late 1960s and early 1970s.es, the movie is based on Zodiac (1986), a nonfiction book by American true crime writer Robert Graysmith about the unsolved serial murders committed by the 'Zodiac Killer' in San Francisco in the late 1960s and early 1970s.