ProducerKeith Levinestill has “such sights to show you." Those famous words were first uttered by Pinhead (Doug Bradley) in the originalHellraiser(1987). 35 years later, actress Jamie Clayton took up the mantle of the terrifying lead Cenobite in theHellraiser(2022)reboot. And if Levine has his way, aHellraisersequel will be “even crazier” than the reimagining. While promoting his upcoming film,The First Omen, Levine revealed that “we are trying to do a follow-up.” The producer also teased reboot director David Bruckner’s involvement in the “conversations.” Levine said in his interview withComicBook.com:
“Yeah.We are trying to do a follow-up and there have been conversations.I can’t exactly say where we’re at in those conversations, but[David] Bruckner is involved in those conversations.And we spent a lot of time and energy, I think, relaunching that world. A lot of brainpower going into crafting the Cenobite design, figuring out how we’re going to pull them off, and we learned so much.”
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Levine continued:
“And I think moving forward, we love that all that knowledge is sort of banked and that time has been spent.So, we think that moving forward and going into another movie is just going to be even crazier and even more awesome.So yeah, that’s something we’re definitely hard at work on, and hope we will have more news soon.”
Doug Bradley Approved of the Reboot’s Designs
Many of themost painful and iconic deaths from theHellraiserserieshappened well before Jamie Clayton suited up as Pinhead in the 2022 reboot. And the actor who originally brought the soul-tearing Cenobite to life, Doug Bradley, actually approved of the latest installment in theHellraiserfranchise, even though he didn’t return as Pinhead. Bradley said in an interview withBloody Disgusting:
“I thought that the design elements of the remake were really the star of the show.I loved what they’d done withthe redesign of the box.Thatmetal grid around the house,I had no idea why it was there, but it was certainly very cool. And all the stuff going on up in the ceiling, great!”
Hellraiser’s Doug Bradley Would Suit Up as Pinhead Again Under the Right Conditions
The original Pinhead can envision himself portraying a different version of the character.
Bradley also offered his thoughts on Clayton’s Pinhead makeup in the same interview:
“I thought the redesign of the makeup was very cool.It was a bold thing to take on redesigning such an iconic makeup,and I thought they did a very good job with it.I loved the change of pallets. I loved those intestinal pinks and pale purples and so forth.”
TheHellraiser(2022) reboot is available to stream onHulu. And be sure to check outall the otherHellraisermovies, which can be seen for absolutely free onPluto TV, at the time of this writing. And producer Keith Levine’s latest horror project,The First Omen, opens in theaters on April 5.
