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Get Excited For ‘Hellraiser’ Again!
Before you get too excited, be prepared to have your hopes smashed as the Weinstein’s can’t seem to get this project off the ground – and can’t seem to make up their mind. After a few months of silence we have the latest name circling Hellraiser, the remake to Clive Barker’s classic adaptation from 1987 that featured the first appearance of horror icon PInhead. Read on to see the latest.
Back in February Marcus Dustan and Patrick Melton (Saw II-VI, Feast-Feast III) were brought in to write a treatment for the latest incarnation of HELLRAISER for French directors Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury (Inside).
Back in April, it was reported that Bustillo and Mauray were off the project.
The last we heard anything regarding the remake of HELLRAISER was back in May when Darren Lynn Bousman’s (Saw II-IV, Repo! The Genetic Opera) name was circling the film.
Here we are in October where we have just learned that Dimension will not be using Marcus Dustan and Patrick Melton’s treatment and that a new writer-director is working on bringing Pinhead back to the big screen.
After Bustillo and Mauray left, my hopes were smashed, until today. We learned exclusively that Pascal Laugier is now chatting with the Weinstein’s about the long-delayed film, which was once slated for release this forthcoming January.
Laugier is the director of this year’s widely praised French film MARTYRS, which has its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last month. Dimension Extreme acquired the film for DVD release in 2009 (rumored in April), which was an immediate tip that the director could find his way to the HELLRAISER remake.
Read our interview with Pascal from September here.
HELLRAISER is the tale of a man and wife who move into an old house and discover a hideous creature – the man’s half-brother, who is also the woman’s former lover – hiding upstairs. Having lost his earthly body to a trio of S&M demons, the Cenobites, he is brought back into existence by a drop of blood on the floor. He soon forces his former mistress to bring him his necessary human sacrifices to complete his body… but the Cenobites won’t be happy about this.
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Katharine Isabelle Battles Cosmic Horror in Exclusive ‘Junction Row’ Teaser Trailer [Fantasia 2026]
Among Fantasia 2026‘s massive final wave of programming this morning is Raven Banner’s Lovecraftian creature feature Junction Row, starring Canadian horror icon Katharine Isabelle, and we’re exclusively unveiling the teaser trailer.
Junction Row will celebrate its World Premiere at Fantasia on July 28.
Watch a housing compound fall under siege from Lovecraftian creatures more dangerous than drug dealers in the trailer below.
Junction Row follows “Juno, a recovering addict who leaves a fringe housing compound for a better life, leaving her beloved Ruby behind. When she learns that Ruby has gone missing, Juno returns, only to find Junction Row has become a hotbed of criminal activity, but she encounters much more than menacing drug dealers on her mission to find Ruby.”
Isabelle stars as Juno, with Natalie Brown (FX’s The Strain) as Ruby.
The creature feature marks the feature debut by director Ashlea Wessel, who has directed festival-favorite shorts like 2018’s “Tick” and 2020’s “Weirdo”.
Wessel co-writes Junction Row with Clown in a Cornfield author Adam Cesare and Matt Serafini.
Katharine Isabelle is coming off a brief appearance in Kane Parsons’ Backrooms, and more recently appeared in holiday horror It’s a Wonderful Knife. The horror icon is arguably best known for her turn as the eponymous werewolf in Ginger Snaps and for her roles in American Mary and Freddy vs Jason.
Fantasia teases that Junction Row tells “a story where the fear of the unknown isn’t confined to what lies above, but what waits beneath.”
Stay tuned for more from Fantasia as the festival gets underway later this month.