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Barker sees Hellraiser as more of a love story than a horror movie. He has said that Julia’s motivation for bringing men back to her house and killing them is done out of a deep devotion to Frank: “She’s not committing murder in the way that Jason… commits murder—just for the sake of blood-letting —she’s doing it for love. So there is a sympathetic quality about her, enhanced hugely… by the fact that Clare Higgins does it so well.”
Art: Michael Calandra
Barker had only made two short movies before Hellraiser, which marked his debut as a feature-film director. He said he was disappointed with how producers treated his material in the 1985 film Underworld, which led him to write The Hellbound Heart, which would eventually be made into Hellraiser. He went to a library to find books about how to direct movies, but both books that dealt with the topic had already been checked out. - C.Catalog
Art: S. Jackson
Barker said that he wanted to focus on quality acting rather than gore and teen-horror tropes: “I’m not just taking the 12 most beautiful youths in California and murdering them, I’ve got real actors, real performers—and then I’m murdering them.” - Creepy Catalog
Art by Jonathan Anderson
Doug Bradley had been offered a choice between the role of Lead Cenobite and a bit part as a mattress-mover. He originally leaned toward the role of mattress-mover because at least the audience would see his face. - Creepy Catalog
Art by Miles Tevez
As with the novel, the film was set in England, but Roger Corman’s new World Pictures said the film would be more successful if it was set in the USA. Much of the dialogue was dubbed by American actors—all of Sean Chapman’s lines were dubbed by another actor. - Creepy Catalog
Art by Nick Percival
Clive Barker had originally chosen the industrial band Coil to record the Hellraiser soundtrack. They recorded a soundtrack that Barker said “made my bowels churn.” But the studio found the band’s soundtrack too harsh and instead chose Christopher Young to record an alternate score. Young had already scored horror movies such as 1985’s A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 and 1986’s Invaders From Mars. - Creepy Catalog
Art by Jonathan Grimm
How about some more #Hellraiser trivia?
Doug Bradley said that during a post-production party, he was disappointed when it seemed like other crew members were ignoring him or even outright shunning him. He later realized that they didn’t even recognize him because they were used to seeing him in the Pinhead makeup. - Creepy Catalog
Art by Kyle Willis
#NowWatching SESSION 9 (2001) dir. Brad Anderson
“Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.”
#NowWatching another of my absolute favorites, KAIRO (2001) dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa (released in the US as PULSE).
"Two groups of people discover evidence that suggests spirits may be trying to invade the human world through the Internet."
After a first reading of the script, Doug Bradley said he envisioned Pinhead as a hybrid of Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward. He also envisioned Pinhead as physically and mentally stronger than either Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers. - Creepy Catalog
Art by Nikita Abakumov
Clive Barker says that since Hellraiser was being filmed during the apex of horror films such as Friday the 13th, Halloween, and A Nightmare on Elm Street, the producers suggested that Pinhead should be a more lighthearted character and occasionally crack jokes. Barker refused and said he wanted Pinhead to be more a more austere character in the vein of Christopher Lee’s portrayals of Dracula. - Creepy Catalog
Art by Colm Geoghegan
Doug Bradley (Pinhead) says that Barker told him to conceive of the character “as a cross between an administrator and a surgeon who’s responsible for running a hospital where there are no wards, only operating theatres as well as being the man who wields the knife, he’s the man who has to keep the timetable going….” - Creepy Catalog
Art by Deharme
The Pinhead character was named “Priest” in early drafts of the script and then became “Lead Cenobite.” It was the crew who renamed him “Pinhead,” a name that Clive Barker disliked because he found it unsophisticated. - Creepy Catalog
Art by Rod Reis
Barker said that the overall stylistic inspiration for the Cenobite designs came from a mix of Catholicism, punk-rock fashion, and his personal visits to S&M clubs in Amsterdam and New York. He claims that his inspiration for Pinhead’s look came from African fetish sculptures. - Creepy Catalog
Art by Jose Real
“Hellraiser was released in Croatia as Lords of Hell, in France as The Pact, in India as Son of the Devil, in Mexico as Door to Hell, in Portugal as Cursed Fire, in Serbia as Lords of Hell, and in Taiwan as Raise Ghosts and Eat People.“ - CreepyCatalog
Art by Jonathan Grimm
“Hellraiser’s original budget was only around $1 million, but it grossed an estimated $20 million in box-office receipts. As of late 2021, the original had led to nine sequels and a couple of remakes that have been perma-stalled in development hell.”
- https://creepycatalog.com/hellraiser-1987-facts-and-trivia/
Art by Jason Shawn Alexander
Hellraiser… da winnnaaaa!!!
Back soon with trivia, art, and the watch schedule for Saturday Scarefest!
Last day to vote for this Saturday Scarefest! Looks like Hellraiser might have it in the bag…
#NowWatching (one of my very favorites) THE WAILING (2016) dir. Na Hong-jin
"Soon after a stranger arrives in a little village, a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman, drawn into the incident, is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.“
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For our next Saturday #Scarefest we're going to pit the heavy hitters up against each other! That's right! Michael vs. Freddy vs. Jason vs. Pinhead in a no-hold-barred, drag-out battle of the baddest!
Which of these iconic horror franchises do YOU want to see? Rock the vote!
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Apocryphiliac
I don’t have anything to sell.
I don’t know anything to tell.
Joined Apr 2022