Gary Tunnicliffe on the New Hellraiser film
Gary Tunnicliffe is someone I really admire for sticking it out with the Hellraiser franchise through thick and thin. Even though I’ve had many problems with most of the direct to video films, the make-up effects work that he and his team provided were always top notch.
So with the surprise announcement of a new Hellraiser film being in Oklahoma City yesterday, Fangoria Magazine caught up with the make-up effects guru who will also be directing the film from a script he wrote.
They also share what appears to be the first image from the film and the film’s official title: Hellraiser: Judgement.
That set looks pretty creepy if you ask me.
Here’s a few samples from the interview that has officially made me excited.
This is not a simple recycling of the HELLRAISER formula; this is a film that will boast some of the strangest, most bizarre, horrific and thought provoking sequences ever seen in a horror film, a horror film that owes it’s inspiration to the works of Heironymous Bosch, and Francis Bacon as well as Cronenberg, Fincher and Lynch (the David’s, as we nickname the influences here) as well as obviously and foremost Clive Barker and I have to thank Bob Weinstein, Matthew Signer, Stu Arbury, Scoop Wasserstein and the rest of the team at Dimension for helping me and for being brave enough to let me do what I want to do…which is to simply create a horror film that flat out horrifies.
He had me at Hieronymus Bosch! It sounds like he’s trying to create something truly horrifying here. He also gives a shout out to all Hellraiser fans not to worry and that he’s going to try and deliver a film that will please us all.
To the fans, I would say this… I know you’ve been let down, and trust me, I have too, but simply give me a chance. I know we can NEVER make a film as great as the first two HELLRAISER’s, I wouldn’t even attempt to do so, but I think we have a fun script here an opportunity with an amazing cast and crew to give you all something that feels a little familiar, a little different, completely terrifying and is a worthy part of the HELLRAISER Canon….. oh and of course if you want blood?…. well you’ve got it!
To read the entire interview follow the link below:
I’m personally very excited about this after hearing from Gary! He’s got me sold.
Best of luck to you Gary from the Clive Barker Podcast.
Via Fangoria official website
