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 Other Side of Heaven is based on John Groberg's book entitled In the Eye of the Storm. Deseret Book, who owned the rights to the book, was hesitant to sell the rights for a movie due to concerns about how The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints would be portrayed in the film.he film stars Christopher Gorham as Groberg and Anne Hathaway as Jean Groberg (nee NÃ©e). Sabin the film is About John 'groberg s experience as A mormon missionary in The tongan islands in the 1950s and is based on a true story from the book that he wrote about his, Experiences in The eye of The. storm