Directors talk Hellraiser remake
Clive Barker’s Hellraiser is regarded as a classic among the horror genre, and it didn’t please many when a remake of the film was announced a few months ago with Patrick Lussier and Todd Farmer (Drive Angry 3D) directing. As with many upcoming remakes, fans are worried the film will try and re-capture the spirit of Barker’s original film. However, Cinema Blend was able to speak with Lussier and Farmer during a press junket for Drive Angry 3D, and was able to get details about their plans for the film.
“I think the biggest thing is, and we talked about this a lot recently, is that we have no intention of remaking Clive’s movie. Clive’s movie is obviously not like remaking My Bloody Valentine, or Happy Birthday To Me, or Terror Train or Prom Night – those are all very specific movies at a specific time with a specific purpose. As fun as they are, and that’s not to take away from them, they were clearly business ventures. Hellraiser, obviously, was not. It was a personal story for Clive and Clive is a true artist. It didn’t feel right to us to retell Clive’s story. That’s Clive’s story. At the same time, there have been a variety of Hellraiser movies and movies that play within the world that he created. And none of them have really gone behind the curtain of what that world is. So that was basically what we offered up to Dimension Films as something unique and different that stays true to Clive’s originality, but, at the same time, pays no disrespect to it,” Lussier said.
Sounds intersting. We saw little of Hell in Hellbound, and it will be interesting to see it more explored in the remake.
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