This movie is so ridiculously underrated. Daniel Von Bargen is absolutely menacing as Nix.
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Daniel von Bargen, the greatest Evil Wizard before Evil Wizards were a thing. The acting, the voice, the smirking, the quotes, nix is the ultimate personification of a twisted wizard. Even being an underrated movie, Lord of Illusions has a special place in my heart. It represents an era of the cinema that is long forgotten, everything now is made to be a blockbuster. Unpopular Opinion, Daniel as Nix, wearing some simple make up, lame vfx has a greater terrifying presence than Vecna, Voldemort, Sarumann and Darth Sidious together. Great actor, may his soul rest in peace after the ordeals he has endured during his last years. My be gone, but never forgotten
This man was born to play the supernatural apotheosis of evil. Shame we only got it in this film and “Oh Brother Where Art Thou.” His voice is amazing.
@@TheBurbyGirl its an entertaining bookpinhead kills a bunch in his Order of the Gash. That Scott Bakula guy goes to hell to vet Pingead. Pinhead squares up with Lucifer, pinhead gets his ass handed to him. That was pretty much it.
@@DukDolan he fights Pinhead, Lucifer and Lucifer kills some kind of Levithian. The battle between Pinhead and Lucifer is fucking bad ass. Pinhead takes Lucifers armor and start cutting pieces of flesh off his own body to make the armor fit. Then Lucifer wakes up, and fucks Pinhead up
Well, he is trying to reboot Hellraiser, but, I think his past health issues are slowing him down a bit, whatever he went through really took its toll on him, if you were to see him currently he looks so frail and weak
Rest in peace, Daniel von Bargen (Nix). We won't forget you. One time, he attempted suicide by a self-inflicted gunshot wound, after he lost a leg and three toes from his other leg. He was a Diabetic.
My mom died when I was six , and my father would always be away or work over night. My sister also would be over her boyfriends house or upstairs sleep. This was one of a few movies that brought me comfort during those times alone at the age of 8..I always felt like Swan...I always felt like Swan.I never found this movie scary. It thought it was magical. It was just magical to me.Its like I horcrux to me. The first dream I could ever remember having was a nightmare. I just always felt like I existed in 2 different world's.
@@captainunload The beauty of the cinematography, the attractive actors and their melodic voices, the beautiful prose even the ones with evil intent, the magic, the fight against evil and being victorious. It can easily be a movie of comfort to a horror fan. Nix speaks cryptically like he has a knowledge beyond our understanding. "“I was a man who wanted to be a god; and changed his mind.” "I wasn't born to show the people the error their ways; I was born to murder the world." Sinister to be sure but also beautiful. Horror can be quite comforting as you're distracted from the concerns of your own life and give the concern of others. Their victory of evil is your victory.
At the end, as Nix shows whatever is inside of him, I wonder if perhaps his body is playing host to some sort of force from beyond. Maybe Nix isn't really Nix anymore but has been merged with something else. At the begging of the film, he gathers up followers and seems ready to reveal something to them. At the end, he kills them all without a second thought. Why bother gathering them and telling them about the fire (whatever it was) if he just intended to kill them all? Post resurrection, his personality goes from religious extremist to genocidal. There seems to have been something influencing him. Nix doesn't receive a lot of characterization but the change suggests to me some influence is exerting itself on Nix.
I just want to recap the story here, so you don't miss something. Nix is an evil guru, tells his followers about the fire speaking to him, proposes a sacrifice of a girl, some followers rebel, they kill him and bury him, years later he comes back to life, he kills all his followers for abandoning him. Ok, so let's take a breather here. This story is the antithesis to the story of Jesus (who obviously didn't kill his followers when he rose from the dead). Nix is a representation of the anti-Christ. His purpose is to "murder the world".
Honestly surprised this hasn't had a remake. I always found it more interesting than Hellraiser, more so because everyone in the film is a character, including the villain, Pinhead is just more of an entity than anything else, whereas Nix is some kind of in-between, a human who ar some point became more than that and became more lonely as a result.
Remember how he tells Swann to see flesh through the eyes of a god, then Swann freaks out and sees his friends as living piles of mud and shit and worms? That’s the price Nix paid for his power. That’s how he sees all life on Earth, now that he is on the brink of godhood, and he is so disgusted by it that he decides he must extinguish all of it. He is a child bringing his boot down upon an anthill. Easily one of my favorite horror movie villains because he is just so shamelessly pathetic and misanthropic.
@@Kafka779 I think we all have a pretty good idea of what's under human skin and inside bowels. Brink of godhood? With quick feat analysis and power scaling, he's just a man with mild telekinetic and even smaller pyrokinetic powers, maybe some meager matter manipulation tricks. Mental abilities below average. His philosophical viewpoints are below fridge magnet level. He dropped from a handgun bullet. Puny god.
@@atklm1 I’m not talking about bowels or insides, I’m talking about how the essence of life itself has become disgusting to him. “The grave is lonely, but living is worse,” and all that. Also, I meant “brink of godhood” by his standards, not by anyone else’s. He’s delusional and megalomaniacal and misanthropic. Even at the height of his power, he gets tackled into a pit by a PI and explodes. Nix claims he wanted to be a god but changed his mind, but I think it is more likely he is so embittered by his failure to transcend and now he wants to make the world pay for his own hubris. You can honestly run with a few different interpretations, but it’s all there in the text. EDIT: Also! You’re absolutely right about his philosophy being shallow as hell. Nix has an impotent rage that puts him on par with most school shooters. Clive Barker himself said he wanted Nix to be deeply uncharismatic, and I think he nailed it.
@@Kafka779 Ah, I see, you are interpreting the feelings they portray. Like a painting, what feelings it "emanates". I was focusing in his words and logic behind them. But it's interesting you mentioned those shootings, because that reminds of psychological phenomenon that has persisted since ancient times. Those happening in schools is just one form of it. Familicides can be one too. Psychologist have some consensus of the mechanism behind it. Sometimes happens suddenly, like during recession, when very rich men became very poor very fast. It can also accumulate, stale rage cooking slowly, and when person increasingly hates oneself, they project it to other people; exceedingly despising the humanity itself. It showed when after resurrection Nix appeared also more repulsive. As they view themselves, they project the disgust of themselves to other people; a psychological defense mechanism. When they boil slowly down all the way, they are experiencing the apocalypse, so they want to create their apocalypse to other people, whom they despise and view as a reason of their own pain inside. Fueling even more hatred when they see the happiness of other people, which they themselves are incapable of even experiencing. It's an interesting viewpoint, maybe portraying the darker side of humanity from the shadows, that has become more frequent along the increasing stresses of modern society and rising expectations.
It goes beyond this but nix is the grim reaper death but its more than that yes underrated clive barker film another amazing work of art if you have both cuts or the scream factory release or any other good one hold on to it also he disowned it but underworld is one of clives early films if not his 1st or 2nd maybe
Death is illusion. Death reversal card. Age is illusion. One of nice but my own because one is own and cults believe someone's wisdom. Rather then own. 😀
This movie is so ridiculously underrated. Daniel Von Bargen is absolutely menacing as Nix.
Daniel von Bargen, the greatest Evil Wizard before Evil Wizards were a thing. The acting, the voice, the smirking, the quotes, nix is the ultimate personification of a twisted wizard.
Even being an underrated movie, Lord of Illusions has a special place in my heart.
It represents an era of the cinema that is long forgotten, everything now is made to be a blockbuster.
Unpopular Opinion, Daniel as Nix, wearing some simple make up, lame vfx has a greater terrifying presence than Vecna, Voldemort, Sarumann and Darth Sidious together.
Great actor, may his soul rest in peace after the ordeals he has endured during his last years. My be gone, but never forgotten
Oh man, this movie is just spectacular. Actually freaky with out of this world effects. And a great cast and story.
This man was born to play the supernatural apotheosis of evil. Shame we only got it in this film and “Oh Brother Where Art Thou.” His voice is amazing.
I grew up in Cincinnati, Danny was a family friend. He was a really good guy, in person he was very quiet and reserved.
The LAW...is a human institution.
Nix is just a jilted lover that never got over his angsty teen phase.
I've loved this movie since I was a kid. So underrated!!
The guy that Scott Bakula plays is in another Clive Barker Book called the Scarlet Gospels and he fights Pinhead in Hell
That would have been a great movie.
@@TheBurbyGirl its an entertaining bookpinhead kills a bunch in his Order of the Gash. That Scott Bakula guy goes to hell to vet Pingead. Pinhead squares up with Lucifer, pinhead gets his ass handed to him. That was pretty much it.
@@seansullivan7928 lucifer? or do you mean leviathan
@@DukDolan he fights Pinhead, Lucifer and Lucifer kills some kind of Levithian. The battle between Pinhead and Lucifer is fucking bad ass. Pinhead takes Lucifers armor and start cutting pieces of flesh off his own body to make the armor fit. Then Lucifer wakes up, and fucks Pinhead up
Harry Damour?
Wish Clive Barker was still making horror movies.
Well, he is trying to reboot Hellraiser, but, I think his past health issues are slowing him down a bit, whatever he went through really took its toll on him, if you were to see him currently he looks so frail and weak
Clive Barker is awesome.. This movie and Night Breed are two my favorites that's Clive Barker as done.. In NightBreed who are the real monsters?
This is one of my favorite horror movies, right behind the Fly and From Beyond.
Rest in peace, Daniel von Bargen (Nix). We won't forget you. One time, he attempted suicide by a self-inflicted gunshot wound, after he lost a leg and three toes from his other leg. He was a Diabetic.
I'm gonna be rotten shit from now on ... Nix
I watch this as a kid and it scared me to death to where I'm 36 now and I remember it
Nix is mesmerizing and unforgettable; my favorite Clive Barker movie😮 See flesh with a God's eyes😮😮
This one and the first hellraiser offcourse, you agree with me??
My mom died when I was six , and my father would always be away or work over night. My sister also would be over her boyfriends house or upstairs sleep. This was one of a few movies that brought me comfort during those times alone at the age of 8..I always felt like Swan...I always felt like Swan.I never found this movie scary. It thought it was magical. It was just magical to me.Its like I horcrux to me. The first dream I could ever remember having was a nightmare. I just always felt like I existed in 2 different world's.
How did this movie bring you comfort, exactly?
@@captainunload The beauty of the cinematography, the attractive actors and their melodic voices, the beautiful prose even the ones with evil intent, the magic, the fight against evil and being victorious. It can easily be a movie of comfort to a horror fan.
Nix speaks cryptically like he has a knowledge beyond our understanding. "“I was a man who wanted to be a god; and changed his mind.” "I wasn't born to show the people the error their ways; I was born to murder the world." Sinister to be sure but also beautiful.
Horror can be quite comforting as you're distracted from the concerns of your own life and give the concern of others. Their victory of evil is your victory.
At the end, as Nix shows whatever is inside of him, I wonder if perhaps his body is playing host to some sort of force from beyond. Maybe Nix isn't really Nix anymore but has been merged with something else. At the begging of the film, he gathers up followers and seems ready to reveal something to them. At the end, he kills them all without a second thought. Why bother gathering them and telling them about the fire (whatever it was) if he just intended to kill them all? Post resurrection, his personality goes from religious extremist to genocidal. There seems to have been something influencing him. Nix doesn't receive a lot of characterization but the change suggests to me some influence is exerting itself on Nix.
I just want to recap the story here, so you don't miss something. Nix is an evil guru, tells his followers about the fire speaking to him, proposes a sacrifice of a girl, some followers rebel, they kill him and bury him, years later he comes back to life, he kills all his followers for abandoning him. Ok, so let's take a breather here. This story is the antithesis to the story of Jesus (who obviously didn't kill his followers when he rose from the dead). Nix is a representation of the anti-Christ. His purpose is to "murder the world".
"From Beyond"
@@i_accept_all_cookies That would have made Swann his false prophet if he'd chosen to join forces with Nix.
I believe that Nix had always been a dark soul (or 'rotten shit' which is his description) from the beginning...😮
@@i_accept_all_cookiesWell said. He was always a monster. He just transitioned from an evil mortal sorcerer into an undead lich.
How Ron Hubbard like.
"The fire said to me....SAID to me..."
I wonder if a24 was around to do more barker movies
Fucking awesome
Kruger! you couldn't smooth a silk sheet, if you had a hot date with a babe.......I lost my train of thought
Honestly surprised this hasn't had a remake. I always found it more interesting than Hellraiser, more so because everyone in the film is a character, including the villain, Pinhead is just more of an entity than anything else, whereas Nix is some kind of in-between, a human who ar some point became more than that and became more lonely as a result.
Pinhead wasn't always the main villain though. In the first two, it was Frank and Julia, and then Channard.
Why did you leave out the Mandrill?
Fire said to me said to me nix nix. Fucking awesome!!!!!
best clive baker movie...
I never understood his motivations, goals and endgame, even though he blabbered on and on about them.
Remember how he tells Swann to see flesh through the eyes of a god, then Swann freaks out and sees his friends as living piles of mud and shit and worms? That’s the price Nix paid for his power. That’s how he sees all life on Earth, now that he is on the brink of godhood, and he is so disgusted by it that he decides he must extinguish all of it. He is a child bringing his boot down upon an anthill. Easily one of my favorite horror movie villains because he is just so shamelessly pathetic and misanthropic.
@@Kafka779 I think we all have a pretty good idea of what's under human skin and inside bowels. Brink of godhood? With quick feat analysis and power scaling, he's just a man with mild telekinetic and even smaller pyrokinetic powers, maybe some meager matter manipulation tricks. Mental abilities below average. His philosophical viewpoints are below fridge magnet level. He dropped from a handgun bullet. Puny god.
@@atklm1 I’m not talking about bowels or insides, I’m talking about how the essence of life itself has become disgusting to him. “The grave is lonely, but living is worse,” and all that. Also, I meant “brink of godhood” by his standards, not by anyone else’s. He’s delusional and megalomaniacal and misanthropic. Even at the height of his power, he gets tackled into a pit by a PI and explodes. Nix claims he wanted to be a god but changed his mind, but I think it is more likely he is so embittered by his failure to transcend and now he wants to make the world pay for his own hubris. You can honestly run with a few different interpretations, but it’s all there in the text.
EDIT: Also! You’re absolutely right about his philosophy being shallow as hell. Nix has an impotent rage that puts him on par with most school shooters. Clive Barker himself said he wanted Nix to be deeply uncharismatic, and I think he nailed it.
@@Kafka779 Ah, I see, you are interpreting the feelings they portray. Like a painting, what feelings it "emanates". I was focusing in his words and logic behind them. But it's interesting you mentioned those shootings, because that reminds of psychological phenomenon that has persisted since ancient times. Those happening in schools is just one form of it. Familicides can be one too. Psychologist have some consensus of the mechanism behind it. Sometimes happens suddenly, like during recession, when very rich men became very poor very fast. It can also accumulate, stale rage cooking slowly, and when person increasingly hates oneself, they project it to other people; exceedingly despising the humanity itself. It showed when after resurrection Nix appeared also more repulsive. As they view themselves, they project the disgust of themselves to other people; a psychological defense mechanism.
When they boil slowly down all the way, they are experiencing the apocalypse, so they want to create their apocalypse to other people, whom they despise and view as a reason of their own pain inside. Fueling even more hatred when they see the happiness of other people, which they themselves are incapable of even experiencing. It's an interesting viewpoint, maybe portraying the darker side of humanity from the shadows, that has become more frequent along the increasing stresses of modern society and rising expectations.
Swan, orange thread in my ear in west Hollywood.
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It goes beyond this but nix is the grim reaper death but its more than that yes underrated clive barker film another amazing work of art if you have both cuts or the scream factory release or any other good one hold on to it also he disowned it but underworld is one of clives early films if not his 1st or 2nd maybe
Yes Patrick O'Neal I was a illusion
Bill Belichick
Lmao
Mr. Kruger to George Costanza.
I'm a lie a illusion
Cool... 🖤😲
I wish they'd make a damnation game.
This is a dmt relm
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Death is illusion. Death reversal card. Age is illusion. One of nice but my own because one is own and cults believe someone's wisdom. Rather then own. 😀
This is Donald Trump and his blind followers.
Convicted-Felon Don is a lunatic!
More like Joe Bidden or even Barack Obama and his blind followers.
the Puritan was a God
We were not ready for his wisdom.
@@fourthhorseman4531 no one is worthy
No, he changed his mind
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