The reboot – not remake – of Hellraiser just launched a disturbing trailer complete with the requisite Hellraiser puzzle box and the appearance of Pinhead. The official trailer for the reimagining of Clive Barker’s cult favorite film was accompanied by a new poster featuring Pinhead front and center, as he should be.
Clive Barker produces along with Marc Toberoff, and the 2022 horror film’s executive produced by Gary Barber, Peter Oillataguerre, and Todd Williams. The Night House team of director David Bruckner, screenwriters Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, writer/producer David S. Goyer, and producer Keith Levine reunite for the newest take on Hellraiser.
The horror film debuts on Hulu on October 7, 2022. Odessa A’zion (Grand Army), Jamie Clayton (The L Word: Generation Q), Adam Faison (Everything’s Gonna Be Okay), Drew Starkey (Outer Banks), and Brandon Flynn (13 Reasons Why) star.
The cast also includes Aoife Hinds (Normal People), Jason Liles (Rampage), Yinka Olorunnife (The Transporter), Selina Lo (Boss Level), Zachary Hing (Halo), Kit Clarke (Leonardo), Goran Visnjic (The Boys), and Hiam Abbass (Succession).
The original film was released on September 18, 1987 and was written and directed by Clive Barker, based on Barker’s novella The Hellbound Heart. Hellraiser brought in $4.4 million over its opening weekend and went on to gross $14.5 million worldwide during its theatrical release.
Hulu offered this description of the new version of Hellraiser:
“A young woman struggling with addiction comes into possession of an ancient puzzle box, unaware that its purpose is to summon the Cenobites, a group of sadistic supernatural beings from another dimension.”