Hellraiser

“Save your breath for screaming!” Image: Walt Disney StudiosHellraiser arrives on Hulu just in time for Halloween, aiming to offer a fresh, modernized take on the Clive Barker series—which, after its groundbreaking 1987 original film, has since been more of a straight-to-video affair. Tasked with this tall order is director David Bruckner, who spoke about his new film at a recent Hellraiser press event.“It’s my first time ever working with sacred IP and feeling a responsibility to what has come before us,” Brucker told…

Hulu via YouTube Hellraiser, the storied horror franchise whose sadistic body horror could make even David Cronenberg shift and lurch here and there, is set for a bloodcurdling reboot on Hulu later this year, and the aptly titled Hellraiser, the eleventh film of its kind, is now making the rounds on the internet with a trailer that manages to be equal parts familiar and tantalizing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUlgwJNdu2I Based on Clive Barker’s 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart, as the rest of the…

An intricate puzzle box in the Hellraiser film reboot. | Image: Spyglass Media Group Halloween is a little over a month away, which means spooky season is upon us — and that means it’s time for some horror movies. One of the new flicks due out in time for the big day is Hulu’s reboot of Clive Barker’s classic Hellraiser. Based on the first trailer, the new iteration looks to retain the mixture of seduction and scares that made the original so distinct, with some very satisfying puzzle box scenes…

Image: AMCGet new looks at Halloween Ends, Hellraiser, and Hocus Pocus 2. Netflix sets release dates for The School For Good and Evil and Troll. Plus, what’s coming on Reginald the Vampire, and Shudder’s latest horror delight sends a livestreamer into a haunted house. Spoilers, away!The Red OneAccording to Deadline, Kiernan Shipka will star alongside Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans in Amazon’s mysterious The Red One, a film only describedas “a globe-trotting, four-quadrant action-adventure comedy imagining a whole new…

Adrian Sibley’s documentary is a genial, if sometimes incurious film about the legendary Irish actor and singer, who began his screen career as a pressure-cooker of rage on the rugby field in Lindsay Anderson’s This Sporting Life and finally became the beatific face of snowy-haired wisdom as Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter movies.This watchable film goes easy on Harris’s boozing and brawling: in fact, it takes an almost a counter-revolutionary approach to the whole subject. In recent years, talk of Ollie and…

Image: NetflixAlessandra Nivola talks about being Kraven’s villain. Get a look at the new Hellraiser. Jerry and Morty get slimed in new,mysterious Rick and Morty season 6 art. Plus, another look at Supernatural spinoff The Winchesters, and Vincent D’Onofrio keeps teasing his return to the Marvel universe. Spoilers get!Joker 2: Folie a Deux According to Deadline’s Justin Kroll, actor Brendan Gleeson is “likely” to play “the warden” or “a security guard” at Arkham in the musical Joker sequel. Cruella 2Relatedly, The…

Image via Hulu. A new batch of images has been unveiled for Hulu’s upcoming reboot of Hellraiser, the film starring Jamie Clayton as Pinhead that will be debuting on the streaming service just in time for Halloween. The images from the David Bruckner-directed film were published in Entertainment Weekly and include a first look at a brand new Cenobite creature who Bruckner has nicknamed “The Masque.” Click to zoom  Based on the 1987 Hellraiser film, written and directed by horror auteur Clive Barker,…

New World Pictures The original Hellraiser is one of the more iconic movies in the horror movie hall of fame. Its prickly antagonist, played by Doug Bradley, is one of the most recognizable faces in horror, with good reason. With a new female Hellraiser on the way, Bradley shared his thoughts on the updated franchise and what he thought of the new casting. Bradley say down with Bloody Disgusting at the Silver Scream Con in Massachusetts and said the casting of Jamie Clayton was “interesting,” and that he was a…

Image: LucasfilmJameela Jamil (dressed as her She-Hulk character Titania) vandalized some She-Hulk posters in Los Angeles as a bit of PR. Christian Slater has been cast as the villain in the new live-action Spiderwick Chronicles. There’s so, so much horror coming, you guys. But is there more? There’s more!I Saw the TV GlowComing Soon reports Phoebe Bridgers and Fred Durst have joined the cast of I Saw the TV Glow, the latest film from We’re All Going to the World’s Fair directorJane Schoenbrun. Co-starring Amber Benson,…

Screenshot: Bethesda SoftworksMadame Web pictures throw in a mandatory Spider-Man reference. Rick & Morty teases “Wormageddon.”The Hellraiser reboot gets an obvious rating. Plus, new footage from Vampire Academy and Peacock’s climate disaster Last Light. Spoilers, away!DustDeadline reports Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Punisher) will star alongside Sarah Paulson in Dust, an upcoming horror-thriller in which “a woman trapped by increasingly perilous dust storms” becomes “convinced that a mysterious presence is threatening…