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Hellraiser and the Human Experience with Hypnotist Amethysta Herrick

Hellraiser and the Human Experience with Hypnotist Amethysta Herrick

Update: 2025-10-07
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Former chemist turned hypnotist, Amethysta Herrick, joins us to discuss Clive Barker’s Hellraiser.

We explore how in its 'puzzle', the film may hold some answers to our questions about society’s categorical systems of gender, identity, pain, and pleasure.

Together we examine how conformity is its own form of horror, and how queerness, hypnosis, and self-liberation challenge the boundaries of what we’re told we should be.


*This episode may contain spoilers for :


Hellraiser (1987)

Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)



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Hellraiser and the Human Experience with Hypnotist Amethysta Herrick

Hellraiser and the Human Experience with Hypnotist Amethysta Herrick

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