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.
It took a crew of around 60 people about a month and a half to complete the maze. It was inspired by Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film 'The Shining,' which is based on a Stephen King novel of the same name. King wrote the book after an experience at the Stanley Hotel.he Estes Park landmark never actually had a maze and Kubrick never actually filmed The Shining at the Stanley, opting for other locations and soundstages instead. The maze is not featured in King's original novel. The hedge maze is comprised of 820 Juniper bushes that will grow to be about 5 feet tall.