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Hellraiser is a 2022 American supernatural horror film directed by David Bruckner, with a screenplay by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, from a screen story they co-wrote with David S. Goyer. A second adaptation of the 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker, which served as the basis for his 1987 film Hellraiser, it is a reboot of the titular franchise and the eleventh installment overall. A co-production between Spyglass Media Group and Phantom Four Films, the film stars Odessa A'zion, Jamie Clayton, Brandon Flynn, Goran Višnjić, Drew Starkey, Adam Faison, Aoife Hinds, Selina Lo and Hiam Abbass.

Hellraiser
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Directed by	David Bruckner
Screenplay by	Ben Collins Luke Piotrowski
Story by	David S. Goyer Ben Collins Luke Piotrowski
Based on	The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
Produced by	David Goyer Clive Barker Keith Levine Marc Toberoff
Starring	Odessa A'zion Jamie Clayton Brandon Flynn Goran Višnjić Drew Starkey Adam Faison Aoife Hinds Selina Lo Hiam Abbass
Cinematography	Eli Born
Edited by	David Marks
Music by	Ben Lovett
Production companies	Spyglass Media Group Phantom Four Films
Distributed by	Hulu
Release dates	September 28, 2022 (2022-09-28) (Fantastic Fest) October 7, 2022 (2022-10-07) (United States)
Running time	120 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Plans for a Hellraiser remake commenced in October 2007, when Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury confirmed they would be directing, with Barker producing and Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton writing the script. After Maury and Bustillo left the project, Dimension Films announced that Todd Farmer and Patrick Lussier were attached, with production slated for an early 2012 release. However, following the release of Hellraiser: Revelations to secure continuing rights, Farmer confirmed that he and Lussier were no longer involved. By 2018, after the critical and commercial success of Halloween, Miramax Films had confirmed plans for new Hellraiser installments, including a prequel and a new chapter of the series. The film was green-lit in early 2019, with Bruckner directing from a script written by Collins and Piotrowski. Filming took place from September to October 2021.

Hellraiser had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest on September 28, 2022, and was released via streaming exclusively on Hulu as a Hulu original film on October 7.

Plot

During a party at hedonistic millionaire Roland Voight's mansion, sex-worker Joey comes across a mechanical puzzle box, which Voight insists he solve. Joey solves the configuration and is stabbed by a blade hidden inside the box. A portal opens, from which chains fly out and rip Joey apart, as Voight demands an audience with Leviathan.

Six years later, recovering addict Riley is living with her brother Matt, his boyfriend Colin, and their roommate Nora. Riley's boyfriend, Trevor, convinces her to help break into an abandoned storage warehouse, where they discover the puzzle box. Returning home late, Riley gets into an argument with Matt and leaves. At an empty park, she solves the box but avoids being cut by the blade. The Cenobites, a group of deformed humanoids, appear and demand she choose another as sacrifice. Matt finds Riley blacked out and, as he tries to wake her up, inadvertently cuts himself on the box. He goes to a nearby restroom to clean his wound. Riley hears him scream and discovers that he has vanished.

Believing the box caused Matt's disappearance, Riley and Trevor track down Serena Menaker, Voight's former lawyer, who had hidden it in the warehouse. Menaker tries to take the box from Riley but is inadvertently cut by the blade and is later taken by the Cenobites. Riley visits Voight's abandoned mansion, finding his journals and learning that the box has multiple configurations, each of which requires a victim to be "marked" by the box's blade for the Cenobites to take. On completion, the box allows its holder to receive a "gift" from Leviathan, the entity that rules over Hell. Riley sees an apparition of Matt, but is horrified to discover he has been flayed.

Trevor, Colin, and Nora arrive to take Riley home. While Riley explains her findings to Colin, the still-living but mutilated Voight, who is hiding inside the walls, stabs Nora with the box. The group attempt to escape the mansion in a van, but Nora is taken by the Cenobites. Their leader, the Priest, taunts Nora, then flays her. The group crashes the van and try to walk back to the mansion. Riley encounters the Priest, who commands her to sacrifice two souls with the last two configurations, or they will take her. After Trevor is injured by the Chatterer, one of the Cenobites, Riley solves the next configuration and stabs it. The Chatterer gets torn to pieces as the next sacrifice.

The group make it back to the mansion, realizing that there are steel doors designed to lock the Cenobites out. Riley and Colin leave Trevor to rest, and it is revealed that Trevor had been working for Voight, having been employed to find people to sacrifice to the puzzle box. Riley and Colin trap a Cenobite, the Asphyx, inside to become the last sacrifice, but Voight appears and stabs Colin with the box. Voight reveals that he sought new pleasurable sensations after completing all of his sacrifices, and his "reward" was a contraption attached to him that twists his nerve endings, leaving him in constant pain. He completes the final configuration and traps the Cenobites, demanding they ask Leviathan to free him from his "gift." Leviathan appears in the sky above the mansion. Riley retrieves the box and unlocks the steel doors, letting the Cenobites in. Riley saves Colin from being tortured by stabbing Trevor, choosing him as a new final sacrifice. Trevor is mutilated by the Cenobites with wires and dragged to Hell. Meanwhile, Voight bargains with the Priest to grant him a different gift, and she offers him "power." Voight is released from his contraption and momentarily healed, before Leviathan impales him with a large chain and takes him away.

Tempted by the Priest into resurrecting Matt, Riley refuses to wish for a gift because she knows the Cenobites' rewards are always twisted. The Priest tells her that she has chosen to live with the guilt of her actions. The box reverts to its original configuration and the Cenobites disappear. As Riley and Colin leave the mansion, he asks her if she made the right choice; Riley remains silent. Meanwhile, in Hell, Voight undergoes a brutal transformation into a new Cenobite.

Cast

• Odessa A'zion as Riley McKendry, a young woman struggling with a severe drug addiction.[1]
• Jamie Clayton as the Priest, leader of the Cenobites.[2]
• Adam Faison as Colin, Matt's boyfriend.
• Drew Starkey as Trevor, Riley's boyfriend who met her in a twelve-step program.
• Brandon Flynn as Matt McKendry, Riley's estranged brother.
• Aoife Hinds as Nora, Matt and Colin's roommate.
• Jason Liles as the Chatterer, the Cenobite who chases Riley, Trevor, and Colin.
• Yinka Olorunnife as the Weeper, a Cenobite.
• Zachary Hing as the Asphyx, a Cenobite.
• Selina Lo as the Gasp, a Cenobite.
• Kit Clarke as Joey Coscuna, a sex worker and one of Voight's victims.
• Vukasin Jovanovic as the Masque, a Cenobite.
• Goran Višnjić as Roland Voight, a charismatic businessman.
• Hiam Abbass as Serena Menaker, Voight's lawyer.

Production

Development

In October 2006, Clive Barker announced through his official website that he would be writing the script to a forthcoming remake of the original Hellraiser film, to be produced by Dimension Films.[3][4][5] In October 2007, Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo were eyed to direct.[6] By January 2008, the project, then titled Clive Barker Presents: Hellraiser, was delayed to an unspecified date in 2009 following the studio's dissatisfaction with Maury and Bustillo's script.[7] In February 2008, Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton were tapped for a page-one rewrite, and production was gearing up to begin that spring.[8] By June 2008, the directing pair had dropped the project to work on Halloween II.[9] That October, French director Pascal Laugier was set to direct.[10][11][12] Laugier told Dread Central in March 2009 that work on the film had begun with a co-writer he could not publicly name.[13] However, Laugier wanted a very serious take whereas the producers wanted a more commercial film that would appeal to a teen audience,[14] and he left the project in June 2009.[15][16][17]

Throughout 2010, further pitches were given by Christian E. Christiansen, Cory Goodman, and from writing duo Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger.[18] In October 2010, Christiansen was reported to be in the running for director while Amber Heard was considered for the lead role.[19][20] Mere days later, it was officially announced that Patrick Lussier and Todd Farmer were to direct and write, respectively, a reboot of the Hellraiser franchise. The story would have differed from the original film, as Lussier and Farmer did not want to retell the original story out of respect for Barker's work, instead focusing on the world and function of the puzzle box. However, in 2011, Farmer confirmed that both he and Lussier were dropped from the project.[21][22]

In October 2013, Barker announced that he would be directing and writing the film; Doug Bradley was to return in his role as Pinhead.[23] A year later, Barker stated that a second draft of the script was completed and described the film as a "very loose" remake of the original film, but said that he may not direct the film.[24] In March 2017, Barker said that the film's "script was written and delivered to Dimension years ago. That was the last anyone heard until news of a sequel surfaced".[25] After the successful release of the 2018 horror sequel Halloween, Miramax Films confirmed that it was considering beginning production on new installments to the Hellraiser franchise.[26] Lussier and Farmer had worked out numerous ideas whilst working on the project; one being a prequel starring William Fichtner as Pinhead, while another pitch had Pinhead portrayed by a woman.[27][28]

In May 2019, Gary Barber announced that Spyglass Media Group would be developing a new remake of Hellraiser to be written and co-produced by David S. Goyer.[29][30] In April 2020, David Bruckner was reported to direct the remake, with Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski writing the script after having previously collaborated with Bruckner on The Night House (2020), which Goyer also produced.[31][32] In December 2020, following a legal dispute, Barker officially regained the rights to the property in the United States.[33]

Pre-production

In June 2021, it was reported that Odessa A'zion was cast in the lead role.[1] In a July 2021 interview with Entertainment Weekly, it was revealed that the film's producers auditioned drag performer Gottmik for the role of Pinhead, after Gottmik showed off a Pinhead-inspired look for a runway, on RuPaul's Drag Race.[34][35]

Filming

In September 2021, Goyer announced that the production crew was "in the midst of" filming, confirming that principal photography had commenced in Belgrade, Serbia.[36][37] In October 2021, after filming wrapped, Jamie Clayton was revealed to have portrayed Pinhead, while Brandon Flynn, Goran Višnjić, Drew Starkey, Adam Faison, Aoife Hinds, Selina Lo and Hiam Abbass were unveiled as supporting cast.[38] Bruckner and the crew reached out to Bradley to make a cameo appearance in the film, but Bradley declined for two reasons: first, potential complications with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and secondly, his desire to leave his Pinhead performance's legacy intact, a decision Bruckner and his crew accepted.[39]

Release

Hellraiser had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas on September 28, 2022.[40] It screened at Beyond Fest in Santa Monica, California on October 4, 2022.[41][42] The film was released in the United States by Disney Platform Distribution via streaming exclusively on Hulu on October 7, 2022, as a Hulu original film.[43]

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 69% of 100 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.3/10. The website's consensus reads, "A gift for long-suffering fans after numerous subpar sequels, David Bruckner's Hellraiser unlocks the puzzle box for getting this franchise back on the right track."[44] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 56 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[45]

Katie Rife of Polygon criticized the characters and the length, but praised the set design and Clayton's performance, and felt overall the film "might even be the second best in the series after [Hellbound: Hellraiser II]".[46] Dave White of TheWrap wrote, "Embodying Clive Barker’s original intention of 'repulsive glamour', these Cenobites silently glide on hell's runway. The assignment was 'red flesh and raw meat, but make it fashion', and their work is an elegant slam dunk."[47] Mark Hanson of Slant Magazine called it "a toothlessly retrograde enterprise".[48]

References

External links

• Hellraiser on Hulu
• Hellraiser at IMDb

На других языках

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- [en] Hellraiser (2022 film)

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[es] Hellraiser (película de 2022)

Hellraiser es una próxima película de terror estadounidense dirigida por David Bruckner, con un guion escrito por Ben Collins y Luke Piotrowski, a partir de una historia de David S. Goyer.[1] Con la intención de servir como reinicio de la película homónima de Clive Barker de 1987 y la undécima entrega general de la franquicia Hellraiser, la película se adherirá estrechamente a la novela original de Barker, The Hellbound Heart. La película estará protagonizada por Odessa A'zion y Jamie Clayton. El proyecto es una coproducción entre Spyglass Entertainment y Phantom Four Films.[1]

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[ru] Восставший из ада (фильм, 2022)

«Восставший из ада» (англ. Hellraiser) — предстоящий американский сверхъестественный фильм ужасов режиссёра Дэвида Бракнера[en], основанный на повести The Hellbound Heart Клайва Баркера. Задуман как перезапуск франшизы «Восставший из ада».

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