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.
The Hellbound Heart is the novella which Barker adapted into the successful 1987 movie Hellraiser, which he also directed. The Hellbound Heart is the story of Frank Cotton, a very depra âIn moments they would be here-the ones Kircher had called the Cenobites, theologians of the Order of the Gash.