We are delighted to welcome cast member Nicholas Vince (Chatterer cenobite) and special effects supervisor Geoff Portass to discuss the production and legacy
of Hellraiser in a Q&A after the film.
While many
of you Hellraiser franchise fans rushed out...
There's a scene in Benny and Josh Safdie's 2014 feature, Heaven Knows What, where junkie protagonist Harley (Arielle Holmes) is shown watching one
of the Hellraiser sequels on TV while high.
Take a look below after the official synopsis... From Dead Mouse Productions and the Producer of «Leviathan: The Story
of Hellraiser & Hellbound: Hellraiser II», comes the new «Fright Night» documentary.
Yesterday saw the straight - to - video release
of Hellraiser: Judgment, the tenth...
It wasn't very long ago that we got our first look at the new Pinhead courtesy
of the Hellraiser: Judgement poster.
Not exact matches
There's
Hellraiser «s Pinhead, standing in for Pinterest; there's The Birds» Tippi Hedren being attacked by a flock
of Twitter logos; and
of course American Psycho's murderous investment banker Patrick Bateman, professionally creeping on LinkedIn.
Instead
of the customary sex, drugs and rock»n' roll, the legendary Hollywood
hellraiser, now 77, admitted to sleeping (alone) until 1 pm and then settling his stomach with a glass
of milk.
The infamous series
Hellraiser is the perfect archetypal example
of the body horror genre, and it has set the standard for the entire future
of the subgenre.
For Barker, the scariest concept is the mundane depravity
of people via occult influences ala Candyman and
Hellraiser.
The four principals include James Tyrone (Jack Lemmon), a once - great actor who compromised his talent by barnstorming all over the country in a tired melodrama and by consuming great quantities
of alcohol; James» wife Mary (Bethel Leslie), a morphine addict who lives in a world
of dreams and delusions; oldest son Jamie (Kevin Spacey), a drunken
hellraiser; and sensitive,tuberculosis - ridden younger son Edmund (Peter Gallagher), the Eugene O'Neill counterpart.
As a fan
of horror movies I am often suspect
of reboots / revamps, etc, but I'm trash for three horror franchises
Hellraiser, Nightmare on Elm Street, and Halloween.
Horror fans have been hearing the rumors for years regarding Dimension Films» remake
of Clive Barker's 1987 horror classic
Hellraiser, with Martyrs director Pascal Laugier attached.
There are plenty
of others who got their disown on, including the many Alan Smithee credits and also Kiefer Sutherland's directorial effort «Woman Wanted» and horror sequel «
Hellraiser: Bloodline.»
First Man will see Knoxville playing a natural
hellraiser, who «has totally behaved himself during his wife's presidential campaign, only to find the dynamic
of their relationship change after he moves into the White House and becomes First Man.»
(But yes,
of course, for those still keeping score at home,
Hellraiser: Judgment does end with... another sequel teaser.
After writing a number
of screenplays, which were turned into objectively mediocre movies, Clive Barker successfully campaigned to make his directorial debut with 1987's
Hellraiser.
Episode 126: The Shape
of Water, del Toro's gill - man love story Episode 123: The Ritual, Swedish hiking and the Norse Jötunn Episode 117: Event Horizon,
Hellraiser in space, and wrestling Graboids Episode 116: Happy Death Day Episode 115: Bram Stoker's Dracula Episode 114: Office Horror, Mayhem & The Belko Experiment Episode 113: Elise, her Demons and the Insidious Franchise Episode 108: The Best Horror Films
of 2017 Episode 78: Carpenter vs Zombie Halloween Rematch (1981 vs 2009) Episode 76: The Blair Witch Pod (1999 - 2016)
Fright - Rags has just released a ton
of awesome new merchandise featuring George A. Romero's classic horror zombie flick Dawn
of the Dead,
Hellraiser «s Pinhead, and the Evil Dead franchise's Necronomicon.
Everything you love about
Hellraiser is cranked to 11 and shot directly into your veins for the perfect hallucinatory jolt
of horror adrenaline, and one
of my favorite horror sequels ever.
Yes, the queen
of Hollywood plays a retired rock & roll
hellraiser who heads home to patch things up with her estranged family in this Oscar - baiting indie drama.
Not a complete success, Sentinel, like the stray film in the Children
of the Corn and
Hellraiser direct - to - video series (IV and V respectively), succeeds based on a talented director and a smart use
of atmosphere.
by Walter Chaw The only genre that boasts more direct - to - video fare than horror is porn, and since we haven't quite reached the point
of quiet desperation needed to begin reviewing porn, find here a smelted cheddar
of four dtv horror features (actually, The Boogeyman got a theatrical release in 1980, though I can't understand why): the eighth film in Clive Barker's venerable horror octology,
Hellraiser: Hellworld; The Boogeyman and its second sequel, the legitimately straight - to - video Return
of the Boogeyman; and Kevin VanHook's The Fallen Ones.
IDW has announced that it will publish a new five - issue sequel to David Cronenberg's horror classic The Fly entitled The Fly: Outbreak, which comes from the creative team
of Brandon Seifert (
Hellraiser, Witch Doctor) and menton3 (Silent Hill, Monocyte).
David Cronenberg's horror masterpiece The Fly continues in an all - new sequel from Brandon Seifert (
Hellraiser, Witch Doctor) entitled The Fly: Outbreak, which gets underway this week from IDW Publishing, and you can check out a preview
of the first issue
of the five - part miniseries here... Years ago, a scientist had a horrific accident when he -LSB-...]
It took almost no time for the
Hellraiser and Wishmaster series to converge into some half - congealed mess
of tits and gore presided over by a recognizable bogey — around the same amount
of time it took for someone to notice that you could rake in a lot
of money at the expense
of somebody else's good idea.
It's not just bad art, it's unscrupulous, cutthroat capitalism; and just as we reject cheap knock - offs
of quality product, we should probably look the other way when presented with something called
Hellraiser: Hellworld.
Dread Central talked to director Gary Tunnicliffe about his latest Pinhead franchise sequel, where he revealed a brand new behind - the - scenes
Hellraiser: Judgment photo from the set
of the film.
Doug Bradley often speaks his mind when it comes to the
Hellraiser films, which he feels a remake should never happen
of the 1987 horror classic
Gary J. Tunnicliffe «s
Hellraiser: Judgment is one
of the flicks that Dark Universe has been eagerly waiting to see this year, which stars Paul T. Taylor in the iconic Pinhead role, replacing the beloved Doug Bradley.
Outside
of Clive Barker's
Hellraiser, it's sort
of crazy to think that, even with films like Event Horizon and As Above / So...
The first image
of Paul T. Taylor in full Pinhead make up for
Hellraiser: Judgment has been released.
A cult favorite for fans
of author Clive Barker, but just plain silly (and very gory) schlock for just about everyone else,
Hellraiser marked the first feature film as a director, adapting his own novel, «The Hellbound Heart».
Hellraiser: Judgment: The dreaded Pinhead returns in the next terrifying chapter
of the classic
Hellraiser series.
In addition to the poor look
of the film, what
Hellraiser really lacks is the essential character development that would make all
of the following hullabaloo make some sense.
The splatterpunks count as their most notable acolyte Clive Barker, whose film
Hellraiser, also from 1987, delivers some
of the decade's most graphic gore as well as its most poetic moments
of horror.
Also, the gore factor is high, so if you like your horror full
of disembowelings and non-stop bloodiness,
Hellraiser may be right up your alley.
I do realize that in horror circles,
Hellraiser is something akin to a classic, but as is always the case, I don't really grade films based on popular opinion among fanboys
of the genre.
Still, in the slasher - film driven 1980s,
Hellraiser at least offered something different, and despite all that it had going against it, it did have Barker's name, and a ringing endorsement by horror maestro Stephen King, who hyped up Barker as the «future
of horror fiction.»
Although it's pretty good as far as sequels go, owing a great deal
of its creepiness to Christopher Young's superlative score (appropriated by Danny Elfman in Batman),
Hellraiser II only occasionally captures the dank decomposition
of Barker's literary and cinematic sensibility.
The events
of its predecessor are covered in the first five minutes
of Hellbound:
Hellraiser II, in an entirely unhelpful montage that provides secrets into the birth
of arch-villain Pinhead (Doug Bradley) but is doubtless arcane to neophytes.
In the final analysis, Hellbound:
Hellraiser II is a film divided between moments
of invention and, sadly, even more moments
of banality and melodrama.
Hellraiser II is not a film for the weak
of gorge or the faint
of heart — I found myself leaving my strawberry - jelly sandwich to its own devices fewer than five minutes into the film.
Warlock joins Sid Haig (House
of 1000 Corpses), Danny Trejo (Halloween, Machete), Chris Sarandon (The Nightmare Before Christmas), Doug Bradley (
Hellraiser), Tobin Bell (Saw), Adam West (Batman), and many more at the 4th annual Mad Monster event in Charlotte, NC.
THE DVD Anchor Bay's laudable dedication to resurrecting «classics»
of horror and cult cinema has resulted in another must - have, THX - approved DVD for admirers
of Hellbound:
Hellraiser 2.
While
Hellraiser II is not the atmospheric brood-fest that the original is, it is still a horror film admirably reliant on a slate
of unusual (and different) ideas.
by Walter Chaw Taking up right where the first film leaves off (and a familiarity with Clive Barker's
Hellraiser is probably necessary for its enjoyment), Hellbound:
Hellraiser II, which still lists Barker as an executive producer, boasts
of a new director (Tony Randel) and a new screenwriter (Peter Atkins, working from an idea by Barker).
The result is a film that merely rip - offs
Hellraiser (down to the reconstituted corpse), A Nightmare on Elm Street (down to the floppy - hat - wearing vengeful ghoul), and, most peculiarly
of all, Dario Argento's Inferno and Suspiria (burning hellmouth, rain
of maggots, man - eating dog).
Like Wes Craven, writer (and occasional director) Clive Barker has loaned his name to several projects - mostly the unending
Hellraiser sequels,
of which two are slated for release this year - and in most cases, these «presented by» / executive produced works are destined for cable TV and DVD (read: direct - to - video) outlets.
Fans
of Barker's work may find Saint Sinner more satisfying than the myriad
Hellraiser sequels, but the movie's most enjoyable aspect is Lennertz» lengthy score.