I was going out to the set of the first Hellraiser movie without having ever been on a movie set before. “I boarded the first Hellraiser completely for myself, but I didn’t give the boards- except in the big special effects sequences- I didn’t give the boards to anybody.

That made it refreshing to interact with a cast and crew with a vision for this new movie. At this point, it was clear that there wasn’t any interest in his ideas. Weinstein said he would pay the money if Barker wrote a script for him first. Which is meaning to say, ‘how soon can I have this?’”Īccording to Barker, Weinstein owed him money and it was around the seventh installment, Hellraiser: Deader (2005), that he finally went to his office. I think it’s important, particularly when you’re up to number 11 in the series, it’s important that you don’t do a Bob Weinstein on it. Bruckner said that all of his creative input was in the spirit of helping them find the film and being true to where it was heading and what it would become. Barker was also very encouraging about how this was a new group of artists and that this would be their movie. And so, there was this just really awesome creative conversation during the prep process.'Īccording to Barker, there was respect in both directions, which made their working relationship easier. Sometimes we’d reach out of the blue, sometimes, he would call, or I would call, or one of us would have an idea. So, throughout the prep process when I was putting the movie together, Clive and I would find moments to talk. Barker said the two of them had great conversations that weren’t even meetings because they were fun. In an interview with Bloody Disgusting, both Barker and Brucker sat down to discuss this latest installment in the series. Hulu’s Hellraiser (2022), a reimaging of Clive Barker’s horror classic from director David Bruckner, has hit the streaming site.

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