Clive Barker remaking HELLRAISER!

[<(o_o)>]

I loved the original, but this will hopefully turn out to be better than the last 4 Hellraiser sequels.

http://www.fangoria.com/news_article.php?id=2994

October 20: Clive Barker remaking HELLRAISER!

The Clive Barker site Revelations just posted a startling bit of news: The man himself is going to be scripting a remake his own seminal 1987 horror film HELLRAISER, and he’ll be doing it for Dimension, which has churned out a series of often only tangentially related Pinhead movies over the last decade. The new movie will be made for “a lot more money,” Barker tells the site, “and they’ve invited me to write it—the invitation came from Bob Weinstein—which I am going to do, on the basis that if I don’t do it, it will be done in some way that I probably won’t like! It’s only that [original film] that I really, really, really care about in terms of its remake value—and it’ll be kind of fun to have the extra money to do the effects and all that cool stuff.

“So it puts me in the situation of writing both the beginning and the end of Pinhead at the same time—‘In my end is my beginning…’ I’m excited about it—actually, it’ll be kinda cool to revisit it once and see if there are things we can do to it which will make it significantly better. I wouldn’t wish to direct—I only want to write and be a part of the producing team. I wouldn’t want to revisit something that I did as a director, something I made all those years ago; that would be too, in a way, painful—not painful but weird, difficult, strange… I am very happy at the idea of having some more money for the cool stuff—I don’t know how much more money, but it’s got to be more than the $900,000 that we had the first time!” Needless to say, we’ll keep a close watch on this project and let you know anything else we find out! —Michael Gingold

 

[tecnowraith]

Atleast it's Clive Barker himself writing and producing it, and not someone who's doing it just for the money. I am wandering what will be different how much will he change himslf from what he wrote the first time around.

 

[DOG LIPS]

I know only a few HR's went to actual theaters, but didn't they bomb hard? I don't know if the general audience will be willing to sit through his twisted mind's eye.


Unless this is a DTV thing?

 

[Galactus]

The original was damn good, and I don't see any reason to remake it. Even if Clive Barker himself is doing it I have my doubts. Bigger budget for more special effects have killed horror movies before.

 

[SolidSnakeMGS]

He's pulling a DeMille.

 

[Dr.Dude]

Meh, torn here...

On one hand, Clive Barker going back to Hellraiser = awesome. The series has been languising in ****ty direct-to-video releases for who even knows how long, and Barker is exactly what it needs... he's the reason the first two were so good.

But on the other hand... remake, bleh. The original movie's story has already been told, and told perfectly... bigger budget isn't necessary. I'd rather see Barker do a new Hellraiser story. A vague sequel, if you will, to the first two movies, that brings it back to its roots while adding in new stuff.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

The Original was and still is in my opinion, one of the truely good horror films. Why remake it? It doesn't need to be remade.

 

[ToddIsDead]

Like many of you, I just don't see the point behind this.

 

[tzarinna]

<(o_o)>,you beat me to it.
Here's the Revelations link

 

[CAH]

Hellraiser......+.......Clive Barker......=.......a winner.

 

[Arcturus]

Well, if it's Clive Barker doing the remake, then it stands a pretty good chance.

 

[66 Face]

I like Hellraiser but I think that if one horror icon movie needs to be remade its this one. Mostly because FX are so much better now and an NC-17 rating is much more fitting for what Barker wants (I hope).

 

[zer00]

It's sucky that it's being remade. But atleast Barker is writing and producing.

 

[Warhammer]

When I first saw this, Tzarinna was the first person that came to mind.

This remake should be interesting, since Clive is behind it, but I am not fan of Pinhead. I used to be afraid of him when I was little. The first 2 were a hell of alot better than the sequels after, but these movies were not my cup of tea. I loved when the Cenobites got pwn3d by the Doctor.

...the SFX should be awesome, btw.

 

[KenK]

maybe we'll actually get the female Cenobite with all the piercings in her cooter, this time!

 

[Warhammer]

Lol

 

[tzarinna]

When I first saw this, Tzarinna was the first person that came to mind.

God,I'm such a dork.

 

[Lead Cenobite]

Yippee! Finally they're talking about the movie from which I got my screenname! t:

Anyway. At first the idea of a remake didn't make me too happy, I've seen a few of the recent ones and they just seem pointless. Most of them don't even reach the quality of the originals. And on top of all that, most of the movies these days are based off something or remaking something in one way or another. We have old fashioned movie remakes, we have restarts, we have movie adaptations of tv shows.

But Clive Barker is writing, probably the first Hellraiser movie he's had any story input on since the original. And this time he might have a big budget. It's great to have one of my favorite movies getting attention for once. It's always Freddy, Jason, Michael, but no Hellraiser. It's probably one of the most underrated horror movies actually.

Also, there might be sequels, and not just dtv ones based off non-Hellraiser scripts either. Hopefully they'll be well written and not just the same formula with different characters, like most other horror sequels.

I'm not getting my hopes up though. Dimension always makes bad decisions with the series. They had Bloodline rewritten and reshot and that turned out bad. Then Clive asked to write the fifth Hellraiser, and they turned him down.

 

[Dr. Fate]

I wonder if this is going to turn out like John Carpenter's 2005 remake of his classic "The Fog"...

 

[<(o_o)>]

I wonder if this is going to turn out like John Carpenter's 2005 remake of his classic "The Fog"...

Hopefully not. The bigger question is how well is this going to appeal to the general movie going audience? Fans of the Hellraiser movies will surely see it but for those unfamiliar with the movies how might it appeal to them? This won't be a teen slasher flick, some may find the material boring or would probably say that it is a rip-off of things from the Saw movies for example.

 

[The Shape]

Badass.

 

[Lead Cenobite]

I wonder if this is going to turn out like John Carpenter's 2005 remake of his classic "The Fog"...

Yikes. Hopefully they don't cast Tom Welling in any parts. >.>

 

[CConn]

Even if I was a big fan of Hellraiser (which I'm not, but eh), I doubt I'd be all that excited for this. Simply put...what's the point? It's one thing to get a new Hellraiser movie, done well and with Barker, etc. - but it's a completely different thing to have a remake of a movie that's already been made perfectly well, and really doesn't need to be improved on...

 

[tzarinna]

Next year will be it's 20th anniversary.

"I wouldn&#8217;t wish to direct &#8211; I only want to write and be a part of the producing team. I wouldn&#8217;t want to revisit something that I did as a director, something that I did all those years ago: that would be too, in a way, painful - not painful but weird, difficult, strange&#8230;

"I am very happy at the idea of having some more money for the cool stuff &#8211; I don&#8217;t know how much more money, but it&#8217;s got to be more than the $900,000 that we had the first time!"

Clive

The first one: Budget: $1M (estimated)
Gross: $14.6M (USA)

 

[Lead Cenobite]

Next year will be it's 20th anniversary.



The first one: Budget: $1M (estimated)
Gross: $14.6M (USA)

Well I've read that toward the end of shooting, New World gave them more money because they were pleased with the production, and that money was used to improve Frank's ressurrection scene.