{"id":633910,"date":"2026-10-18T01:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T01:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/633910\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T01:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T01:02:09","slug":"clive-barker-says-hellraiser-revival-game-has-sparked-movie-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/633910\/","title":{"rendered":"Clive Barker Says ‘Hellraiser: Revival’ Game Has Sparked Movie Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNearly 40 years after first opening the Lament Configuration on screen, Clive Barker<\/a> is ready to explore pain and pleasure again in the Hellraiser<\/a> film franchise.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith the recent release of the Saber Interactive\u2019s Hellraiser: Revival video game, the writer\/director of the original 1987 horror movie, which was based on his own book, teased that he has \u201cmany ideas\u201d of where to take the franchise next.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think what was achieved in the game is a wake-up call to anyone who\u2019s been involved in the making of a franchise like Hellraiser,\u201d he told Dread Central<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cIt says to get your ideas warmed over so you can go back into existing worlds in a brand new way,\u201d added Barker. \u201cI have many ideas that I\u2019d like to see realized in the Hellraiser universe, and I\u2019m planning to keep my fingers in that pie.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBased on his 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart, Barker wrote and directed the first Hellraiser movie the following year, introducing audiences to Pinhead (Doug Bradley) and his Cenobites. The franchise has since sparked 11 movies, multiple books, comics, video games and more.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tHELLRAISER, Clive Barker, 1987<\/p>\n

\n\tBarker successfully reclaimed U.S. rights<\/a> to the Hellraiser franchise in 2020, joining the 2022 David-Bruckner helmed Hulu reboot<\/a> as a producer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly 40 years after first opening the Lament Configuration on screen, Clive Barker is ready to explore pain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[20229,116027,156,107843,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-633910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-clive-barker","tag-clive-barkers-hellraiser-revival","tag-entertainment","tag-hellraiser","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}