New Screenwriters for 'Hellraiser' Remake

Ok, here we go. We've got some news about the Hellraiser remake.

First, it's release is being pushed back four months from September '08 to January '09.

Second, STYD reports that those two dudes who wrote Project Greenlight's Feast, and more recently Saw IV and the upcoming Saw V, Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton, have been signed on by the Weinstein Company to throw their odd brand of clickty-clack onto the upcoming Hellraiser remake...continue reading this article at Geeks of Doom!

Clive Barker's 'Book of Blood' Teaser Art + Images + Synopsis

STYD has posted the teaser art for Matador Pictures' big-screen adaptation Clive Barker's Book of Blood.

The art, seen here at right, was created for the Berlin Int'l Film Festival. There's also two stills below from the John Harrison-directed film. Harrison along with Darin Silvermann co-wrote the screenplay based on on the short stories Book of Blood and On Jerusalem Street by Clive Barker...continue reading this article at Geeks of Doom!

The Hellraiser Project: Hellraiser VI: Hellseeker

Hellraiser VI: Hellseeker

I've heard from people that have had appendicitis, that when you press down on your stomach, it relieves the pain a little bit, but when you take your hand away, it hurts even worse. Like the inflamed organ is making up for lost time.

So it should have come as no surprise that after taking some time off for Thanksgiving and some other family related stuff, I come back to The Hellraiser Project just in time for Hellraiser: Hellseeker, which is the worst of the franchise. It's a jumble of flashbacks, dream sequences, and hallucinations with a "surprise ending" as the cherry on top. It's like Donnie Darko, except Patchouli-smelling theatre chicks won't sleep with you if you say you liked it...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!

The Hellraiser Project: Hellraiser IV: Bloodline

It is an article of resentment of my name becoming synonymous with a certain pin-headed sadomasochist from the far reaches of hell, that when good ol’ Pinhead showed up on this last week’s episode of South Park getting beheaded in Imaginationland by Jesus Christ, every atheistic impulse in my body fell by the wayside as I screamed “GET HIS ASS! FUCK ‘IM UP, LORD!”

This could be the first signs of stir craziness at this assignment, or that I have seen the first truly awful Hellraiser movie, Hellraiser: Bloodline. This movie blows not only goats, but everything in the barnyard and THEN rims the farmer. Those of you thinking I was being too good-natured about an undertaking such as this and WISHING for my old motherfucker self to pop up need wait no longer. I barely even made it through the opening credits alive, once I saw that this little flicker-show is directed by one Alan Smithee.

For those of you not in the know, here is the story of Alan Smithee: He doesn’t actually exist, but rather he is the pseudonym that the Director’s Guild of America places on movies that had creative control wrested from their directors by the studios and executives. The name has covered the work of people like Don Siegel (Dirty Harry) and Academy Award nominee Arthur Hiller (Love Story) for Death of a Gunfighter and Burn Hollywood, respectively. So if ever you see the name Alan Smithee on a movie, know that this movie was not made by a director who knows about film, but by a suit who knows only demographics...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!

The Hellraiser Project: Hellraiser III: Hell On Earth

There is a list I keep in my mind of the things I really wish I could have gone my whole life not seeing. If I had not seen a couple of these things, I might be a little more well-adjusted and less mean as catshit. They’re not all gruesome, mind you, but if there’s a God, he’d have called foul by now, a yellow flag, SOMETHING! Things like…

-That damned “Mission Accomplished” banner.

-The details of Bill O’Reilly’s phone sex conversations.

-Any episode of Saturday Night Live past the ’01 season.

-Four words and a hyphenate: “Aaron Boone walk-off home run.”

With all the depravity, deceit, and just plain ooginess on display in those four examples, a disembodied cervix that has hydraulic equipment embedded in it is the chumpiest of chump change, which is what’s on display in this week’s installment. I don’t know how it’s gonna pan out in quality, but in terms of grisly imagery at least, I have a feeling that The Hellraiser Experiment might just be more easier than I thought...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!