A Hellraiser reboot is one of those projects that has been rumored for so many years now that I can't believe it actually happened. Now they've supposedly wrapped filming a Crow reboot too? The Dimension Films catalog is getting a second wind!
What I think every Hellraiser film since the second (and arguably even the first) has missed is that the Cenobites, stripped of all the gore and S&M imagery, operate as classic medieval faeries (in the Neil Gaiman/Susanna Clarke mold). And so the stories that they occupy should be, for lack of a better term, fairy tales.
It’s too bad that all Hellraiser movies after the first two missed that the most interesting character was Julia, and instead focused on the ciphers with memorable costume design.
A Hellraiser reboot is one of those projects that has been rumored for so many years now that I can't believe it actually happened. Now they've supposedly wrapped filming a Crow reboot too? The Dimension Films catalog is getting a second wind!
What I think every Hellraiser film since the second (and arguably even the first) has missed is that the Cenobites, stripped of all the gore and S&M imagery, operate as classic medieval faeries (in the Neil Gaiman/Susanna Clarke mold). And so the stories that they occupy should be, for lack of a better term, fairy tales.
It’s too bad that all Hellraiser movies after the first two missed that the most interesting character was Julia, and instead focused on the ciphers with memorable costume design.