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Clive Barker on the set of Hellraiser (1987).

what? i cant even make this shit up

what? i cant even make this shit up

I want to actually explore the world we saw in Hellraiser 2, not wipe everything clean for the sake of a female Pinhead, which isn’t any more or less accurate than male Pinhead. Trying to make a novel accurate remake is so pointless, if thats what they’re doing, because the original was already very accurate to the story, you’d just be making a few aesthetical changes to the cenobites who already play a fairly minor role in most of it. I wanna see something new, I wanna see Doug Bradley back while we still can. When he’s… no longer available, I’ll gladly take a new approach to Pinhead

And honestly the cenobites aren’t that inaccurate to the book. BookBites ™ are a little less aggressive, a little more heavily mutilated, but most of their traits are in some capacity carried over to film (and frankly I find the more aggressive movie ones more interesting). Deepthroat inherited most of the gender neutral traits of the breathy voice and shaved head, even if they didn’t bother to hide her gender beyond that. But they’re there, is my point, even if they didn’t go as hard with it. And Pinhead and Channard got the leather-sewn-through flesh stuff.

And ofc if they’re doing a full remake you know they’re not gonna give Pinhead 3 lines of dialogue like they had in the novella so it’s already not gonna be fully accurate

Most remakes come when the franchise has been sucked dry, but no Hellraiser sequel past 2 really bothered to milk its potential. 3 was a Pinhead solo tour, 4 was a trainwreck, and everything after that was just absolute uninspired trash that did nothing with the actual lore. Judgement tried but was a colossal failure

I want to see those sights Pinhead promised us before we just abandon the original series g-dang it, and while we still can with Doug

Released March 8, 1996.

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October 2019 Horror Movie Marathon: Day 12