Clive Barker makes a big Hellraiser announcement

XHonusWagnerX - 11-17-2006 at 08:39 AM

October 23: Clive Barker talks new HELLRAISER

HELLRAISER fans spent their weekend in either a state of dribbling puzzlement or utter elation following last Friday?s announcement of a new Pinhead film. If you?re now catching up, to sum up the drama in one word: remake. Yes, Dimension is moving ahead with a redux of the ?87 film, and Clive Barker is back to pen the update (for his reasons, see that news item). Fango happened to catch up to the man last night during the Screamfest Awards dinner (where Barker accepted a Lifetime Achievement nod, pictured above), where he also revealed that his latest novel, THE SCARLET GOSPELS (which will chronicle Pinhead?s demise), is now weighing in at 3,000-plus pages.

With a definitive end to this project in sight soon enough, where does that leave room for Barker to pen that new HELLRAISER?especially with so many other irons in the fire? ?When I?m done with GOSPELS, I?ll begin writing HELLRAISER 1 while I?m doing the paintings for ABARAT part three,? Barker laughs, the insanity of such an undertaking not lost on him. ?I just wouldn?t be at peace with myself if I gave this [remake] writing gig to somebody else, and I?ve always had in the back of my head what I wanted to do. There are things which are going into the movie which I?ve had tucked in my brain for years.

?I haven?t talked to anybody else [involved in the original] about this,? he adds, instantly answering those fans pondering Doug ?Pinhead? Bradley?s place in the new film. ?I?m going to write it and see how it goes. I?m hoping Doug will be back [but] this will be a different Pinhead.? That said, will the new HELLRAISER reflect any themes, characters or events revealed in GOSPELS? ?Oh yeah, of course!? Barker teases. ?Do you really think I wouldn?t do that?? ?Ryan Rotten from Fangoria.com

XnMeX - 11-17-2006 at 10:23 AM

Interesting, can't wait to see how this comes out. Stopped checking out helraiser after part 3 (after all the direct to dvd releases)

RomanticViolence - 11-17-2006 at 10:32 AM

I have the first one.
I like it.
You can't go wrong with meat hooks.

That is all.

XHonusWagnerX - 11-17-2006 at 10:35 AM

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Originally posted by XnMeX
Interesting, can't wait to see how this comes out. Stopped checking out helraiser after part 3 (after all the direct to dvd releases)

4 was really good and came out in theaters. After that they were dirrect to video, but overall they are decent.

defstarsteve - 11-17-2006 at 12:49 PM

4 was better then 3
I didn't catch any after that
but I have th comics and they are always great...
with the new sfx stuff they can do know as long as it's not cgi crap this could be fucking gruesome

XHonusWagnerX - 11-17-2006 at 12:52 PM

as long as Clive Barker is involved I cant imagine it being bad!

upyerbum - 11-17-2006 at 02:32 PM

I've been a Clive Barker fan for a long, long time. Looking very forward to The Scarlet Gospels.
For anyone who hasn't, read Imagica. And everything else he wrote.

beaner - 11-17-2006 at 02:40 PM

I really need to make time to do some reading again. clive barker stuff is so good.

XHonusWagnerX - 11-17-2006 at 02:59 PM

Hes supose to make a "Tormented Souls" annimated movie about the characters from the toy line that McFarlane did. Im sure it will be dirrect to DVD, but I dont know when.

Six66Mike - 11-17-2006 at 03:01 PM

I like the old ones a lot, good films.

Hollywood stopped having new ideads in horror a long time ago eh? The biggest new horror films lately came out of Australia (Saw series & Wolf Creek which I guess isn't that type of horror..)

Saw seems to be the only new horror franchise at the moment.

XHonusWagnerX - 11-17-2006 at 03:05 PM

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Originally posted by Six66Mike
I like the old ones a lot, good films.

Hollywood stopped having new ideads in horror a long time ago eh? The biggest new horror films lately came out of Australia (Saw series & Wolf Creek which I guess isn't that type of horror..)

Saw seems to be the only new horror franchise at the moment.

Lately its all about the remakes and sequals of remakes, but they are good so I cant complain to much.

Next year we will get....

HOSTEL 2
THE HILLS HAVE EYES 2
Rob Zombies HALLOWEEN (yes featuring Michael Myers)

XnMeX - 11-18-2006 at 08:33 AM

Remakes are movie directors versions of "cover songs". Sure, you can do an original, but if you do a cover, the crowd will be into it from the get go with less convincing / promotion. I think that idea came out right, whatever, I just woke up.

Voodoobillyman - 11-18-2006 at 10:44 AM

This will be good I'm sure, I've read alot about it over the past month or so and it's basically Clive Barker revisiting a story he wants to tell using updated tools. He couldn't do alot of the things he wanted back in 87 and now he plans to shoot the film he intended to back then. If none of you have seen it yet, check out FEAST, it's the movie Wes Craven co-produced with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck for the project greenlight series and it is easily the best monster flick I have seen in a looooooooong time.