It’s an idea that’s so jarring there are even a number of sites in the real world that people are quick to designate as actual Hellmouths. The idea of this impossibly cursed world just rubbing up against our own and spilling out is truly terrifying. That’s why it’s so fascinating when a literal gateway to Hell opens up in some horror story. With Hell being an appropriately frightening place, most of pop culture’s association with the purgatory is in regard to avoiding the place to escaping the prison to never ending up there in the first place. The idea of there being some dominion where not only the evilest amongst us end up, but also a place where demons and monsters run free spreading havoc. With ‘Baskin’ re-opening the doors to damnation, we look at some of the best horror films involving gateways to Hell!Īs a people, we have an inherit fascination with Hell.
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