Hellraiser — my favorite horror movie bar none. I agree with the fact some sequels have gone downhill and uphill and good and bad. However Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 are amazing and changed the way I thought about horror movies when I was a young lad.

Now with Hollywood running out of ideas; Remakes have become the new hotness and they are clamoring to find any property to remake and reimagine and destroy anyway they can. Sometimes it can be good sometimes it fails miserably. For every Dawn of the Dead there is a Black X-Mas. For every The Fly there is Halloween. So when they announced a remake/reimagining of Hellraiser I was full of anger and hatred… (What ELSE is new?) then news started leaking out about what was going on…

Clive Barker is writing it. Okay so I got a bit more optimisitc but still reserved. They announced the two directors for the movie… indy superstars who made a movie I never saw yet. Alright it still could be working… im still optimistic however Dread Central posted a little bit of news about the remake today courtesy of Twitch Film…

”We don’t want to remake exactly the Clive Barker movie.” Bustillo told the site, ”We have met Clive and told him what we want to do with “Hellraiser” and he said, “It’s f**king good do it!” We are happy to have his benediction. It will not be a remake. It will still be called “Hellraiser” and it will have a new Pinhead.”

Now if they are talking more towards the way The Hellbound Heart (Clives original Novella that inspired the movie) dealt with “Lead Cenobite” (whom became our beloved Pinhead) then I could see it working — however just changing for the sake of changing seems a little pointless.

Clive Barker is happy with the co-directing team… thinks they will respect the material, so heres hoping he’s right cause right now my Pinhead tattoo is angry and worried about what will come next…