Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24077689-20140214172618



So here is the pitch trailer for the Hellraiser series reboot, Hellraiser: Origins.

Now anybody that knows me knows I'm a huge fan of Hellraiser. I have the novella, I have action figures, I have comic books, I have the first 2 movies (because they're the only ones that are relevant). I'm a huge fan. This represents my all-time favorite film.

Now lets get into the trailer. First of all, "before there was man there was HELL". Bro, really? Seriously? Firstly, that doesn't make any sense. And second you have this slow pan into the re-imagined Lead Cenobite, AKA Pinhead. The reason Pinhead is who he is would be order. Every new re-imagining of the character seems to forget that. Pinhead's power comes from the clean geometry of his wounds, his voice, and his unique selection of old English. The cenobites are commanding because they're not just typical movie monsters. Now we've got all these ultra-bloody new designs for Pinhead. Totally ignoring what makes the character who he is. This looks like an ultra-CGI over-produced mess.

If we're talking about a series reboot this is what I say:

Recast. Portray Pinhead as she was originally meant to be: a woman. A sexy, bald, young woman with a tattooed grid and jeweled nails driven to the bone. Remake it more true to the novella. And lets cast Doug Bradley as well, let's put him in the slightly different role of The Engineer, the true leader of the cenobites. Besides the novella, there's a wealth of canon mythology to take from in the form of essays, comics, short stories, etc.  