#hellraiser revival

Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival

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Okay, but why is it giving:

I wholeheartedly agree with you. The Pinhead from SG, Toll and BOOM comics was an entirely different entity.

I think Clive didn’t like what was done in Hellraiser 3, maybe he didn’t want his work to be a slasher (which fair enough), but I don’t think he had a say back then. I think that the decision to blow up Pinhead and his crew in a spaceship in Hellraiser 4 was a very deliberate decision, a message that literally screamed “I’m done”.

But I guess people wanted more? I know that an artist can grow to hate their creation (I know I did) and sometimes they express their hate by doing everything to destroy it. Scarlet Gospels is the perfect example, like Pinhead is a fundamentally different person in that story and so is Hell and all other aspects that made Hellraiser so special. I mean, Pinhead became the classic misogynistic, megalomaniacal supervillain which is just comically stupid, but it’s also a great way to show people that you hate the character that you created. Same with BOOM comics that utterly destroy the beautiful and nuanced characterization of Elliott Spencer in Hellraiser 3.

But, there was indeed Hellraiser 2022. That movie was beautiful, despite its flaws, and it depicted Cenobites in such a great and refreshing way. Maybe seeing that movie re-ignited Barker’s interest in his own world? I mean, in the remake, Pinhead was made to look, speak and act just as they were portrayed in “The Hellbound Heart” novella - maybe the blast from the past and actually a success of that movie was enough for Barker to realize that his fans kind of still love Cenobites the way he originally invented them?

I can’t speak for him, of course, I’m just a little dumbass in the fandom, but it was that movie and the cool game Dead by Daylight that also included Pinhead in several outfits that preceded this new game. Maybe Barker saw the movie and the game and thought that it would be cool to return to his roots with the Cenobites?

Thank GOD we have a game based on a horror IP that isn't an asymmetrical multiplayer game. None of them are at this rate ever gonna challenge DBD (which is sad because IMO at least DBD has fell off bad) and the amount of single player horror experiences we were robbed of, Texas Chainsaw, Evil Dead, is just depressing.

When I saw the fetish gear, the ball gag and FULL frontal nudity in the first few seconds of the trailer I instantly gained a lot more hope for the game. Hellraiser is all about sex, the exploration of pain and pleasure, what people will do to feel a new thrill, as well as how such desires left unchecked can swallow people whole. I'm glad this doesn't seem to be just a walking sim with cenobites in it, but (hopefully) an interesting exploration of the themes first set out by Hellbound Heart. Clive Barker is writing which is a big plus.

I think the dynamic of the main character is interesting, usually anybody who opens the box is usually the main villain of the movie with the cenobites as secondary antagonists just doing their job. I think it further gives me some hope for the story and Clive Barker's involvement that we can have someone open the box and NOT be seen as evil because of it. Like, Frank wasn't evil because he was into some heavy ass BDSM, he was evil and just happened to be into heavy ass BDSM.

I'm probably bugging and this is probably just a common enemy or something but I so want to believe this is Frank