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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.
A gnarly infection threatens to claw its way out of a moving camper in the first trailer for Shudder’s claustrophobic Hellcat.
The feature debut of writer/editor/director Brock Bodell, who previously edited the Fantasia title Ultrasound, makes its debut on Shudder on August 14.
In Hellcat, “Lena wakes up in a moving camper trailer with a horrifying wound. She’s warned by the driver that they have one hour to get to a doctor, or she’ll succumb to an unimaginably awful fate. As the pain sets in and reality begins to fray, who should really be afraid?”
Dakota Gorman (Natural Disasters) leads the cast that also includes Todd Terry (“Breaking Bad”), Liz Atwater (The Other People), Jordan Mullins (The Bikeriders), and James Austin Johnson (“Saturday Night Live”) in a voice role. Bodell also produces alongside Andrew Duensing and Nate Eggert.
Hellcat made its world premiere last summer at Fantasia. I wrote in my review, “Hellcat is a bit of a Trojan horror that defies easy classification, by design. Bodell’s sneaky debut feature is occasionally too sparse in its worldbuilding in its bid to preserve the mystery, but not enough to detract from the thrilling road thriller that transforms into a completely left-field type of horror we don’t get nearly enough of. The stripped-down tribute to a classic horror staple catches you off guard in more ways than one, marking Bodell as one to watch.”
In other words, there’s a lot more than meets the eye to Hellcat‘s simple infection setup, delivering plenty of surprises along its bumpy road of horrors.
Check out the trailer and poster below and add Hellcat to your watchlists asap.
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