...est film, HELLRAISER:DEADER, will be directed by Rick Bota and co-penned by Tim Day. Revealed Tim Day recently about DEADER, "We've taken a script called DEADER that Neal Marshall [13 GHOSTS] Stevens sold to Dimension almost two years ago as a spec, a...
`We have such sights to show you!` That’s a memorable line from Clive Barker’s Hellraiser that you’ll hear repeated to much lesser effect in Tony Randel’s Hellbound: Hellraiser 2. It’s creepily effective in the first film, but yawn-inducing in the second....
Back in the mid-1980’s, a friend who knew that I was into horror suggested I read a series of books written by a new horror writer named Clive Barker called The Books of Blood. I did, and became an instant fan. Barkers’ tales were a ...
Doug Bradley's Pinhead has been an ever growing character (for better or worse) throughout this series but don't expect him in the upcoming HELLRAISER movie, at least not in his signature role. Sure, the character Pinhead will be in it but the creators, A...
Two upcoming horror films have been yanked out of the 2008 lineup for reasons unknown. Well, it's unknown because no official statement has been given but it seems clear that the WGA has something to do with it. The upcoming remake of Hellraiser was ...
Another reboot, remake or re-something is imagined for the Hellraiser series, reports Shock Til You Drop. The Weinstein Company have hired two new screenwriters, Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton, to adapt a new big screen series for the classic horror fr...
Hellraiser by Jarrod Sarafin, News Editor (Sun 12-16-2007)
Release Date: September 5, 2008 Studio: MGM, The Weinstein Company Director: Julien Maury, Alexandre Bustillo Screenwriter: Julien Maury, Alexandre Bustillo Cast: TBA Genre: Horror Plot Summary: Released in 1987, "Hellraiser" told the story of a...
First off, let me identify myself as the co-writer and the director of Hellraiser: Inferno. I am the director whom Clive Barker described as `very nice`—a description which was perhaps as hastily uttered as were his aspersions toward my film.His reaction,...
Q. HOW DO YOU RELATE TO THE CHARACTERS IN YOUR BOOKS AND IN YOUR FILMS?Barker: I don`t relate to the characters in my films the way that I relate to the characters in my books. In my books I can really get into the characters. The characters in films belo...
Some days you eat the bear. Some days, the bear eats you. So goes an old Russian proverb, which explains that some days are just better than others. It’s a simple bit of wisdom that would seem to apply also to the world of home video. Last Tuesday’s re...
Variety is reporting that a weekly television series based on Clive Barker's HELLRAISER property is in development. According to the trade, Panacea Entertainment, Park Avenue Entertainment and Blueprint Entertainment are working on the hour-long show, wit...
One of the more enjoyable evenings at the American Cinematheque`s 1st Annual Festival of Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction featured a screening of the ground-breaking horror film Hellraiser and a subsequent discussion with writer-director Clive Barker ...
With FANTASTIC VOYAGE (1966), Leonard Rosenman provided one of science fiction’s most remarkable scores. Comprised mostly of non-melodic motifs, the score blends various counterpoints of coloristic tones to create a striking sound design for the corporeal...
Boy, this is a departure from the usual Grisham books where the lawyer gets involved in a case involving a murder or something similar.Law Professor Ray Atlee receives a letter from his ailing father to return home to Clanton, Mississippi as soon as possi...
Checker Book Publishing Group has announced a November release of CLIVE BARKER'S TAPPING THE VEIN, an anthology of comic-book adaptations of Barker's short stories. The book collects nine stories, adapted to the comics medium by creators including P. Cra...
On Saturday September 21, the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood opened an art exhibition of paintings from Clive (HELLRAISER) Barker's new book ABARAT. The novel is the first installment of a series of four young adult fantasy/adventure books and is...
“What number are we on?” laughs actress Ashley Laurence as she discusses the latest in the never-ending horror series HELLRAISER.For Laurence’s erudition – and the reader’s – let it be known that we are now on the sixth film in the adventures of the dasta...
OSCAR-WINNING FANTASY SHORT TOOK A CHANCE ON MUSICChance Thomas, the award-winning composer most widely known for his innovative work in interactive games, created the music for "The Chubbchubbs" which has won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Fil...
A promotional event to hype the coming BOOGEYMEN DVD has been pushed back one week in deference to last week's tragedy. The event, which was originally scheduled to take place on Friday, September 21 will be moved back one week to September 28th. Robert E...
The music emerges out of the darkness, swelling up with a cadence and a roguish kind of playful sensibility that colors its rhythmic crests. There is a fresh dynamic here, one that`s rarely been heard in Hollywood film music. The music shifts form, temp...
The theme is a familiar one. The mighty, stalwart chords of brass, the trilling woodwinds, the driving rhythm of the violins, the strident siren of electric guitar… Wait a minute? Electric guitar? What’s that doing in the middle of the STAR WARS theme?...
From Citadel Records comes JUDAS KISS, a sultry and moody thriller score with a strong Latin edge from the trumpet and plenty of mambo-stylisms in several cues. 15 tracks appear on the CD, but the real magic of this recording is the world premiere record...
VIDEO NEWS· You can’t keep a good corpse down as Trimark Home Video has recently announced their August 3rd Special Edition release of RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD 3. Dan O’Bannon’s 1985 semi-sequel/spin-off of Georg...
Tim Burton (the cutting-edge director of such twisted fantasy fare as BATMAN, BEETLEJUICE, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, ED WOOD, and MARS ATTACKS!) and Todd McFarlane (creator of the best-selling comic book SPAWN and founder of McFarlane Toys) now combine their u...
New & Comprehensive Interview posted at Scoremagacine.com Composer Christopher Young (THE GRUDGE, HELLRAISER, SPECIES, JENNIFER 8, URBAN LEGEND), film music's self-described Larry Talbot, continues to be one of the most potent purveyors of music for horro...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONS
When it premiered in 1956, producer Mike Todd’s flamboyant cinematic incarnation of the Jules Verne novel, Around the World in 80 Days, was the world’s most expensive and elaborate film, directed by...
Despite telling us last year that no new sequels would be on the way for the foreseeable future, there have been whispers out of Dimension Films of another Halloween sequel following Zombie's re-imagining last year. Shock Til You Drop is now reporting tha...
Add another exclusive studio to the Blu-ray camp according to this latest bit of news. Starz Media, parent company of Manga Entertainment (and I believe formerly known as Anchor Bay), has announced that they will begin releasing titles exclusively for Blu...
The comics-based horror film 'Bump' continues to attract an impressive cast, rolling out two new announcements this week.
Producer Scott Licina has announced Sean Patrick Flanery and Ashley Laurence have signed on to appear in the movie.
Flanery, who st...
Screenwriter
Hans Rodionoff recently sent an e-mail to Creature
Corner.com about some of the projects he has been working on. As Comics2Film
previously reported Rodionoff is working on Werewolf By Night,
and as this e-mail shows he's worki...
20th Century Fox and Lucasfilm have announced plans to release the original original STAR WARS trilogy (episodes 4-6) on DVD along with the 1997 "upgrade" editions, even though George Lucas claimed that the original theatrical versions would never be avai...
This is one dead week, folks. Seriously, unless you've been eagerly awaiting the return of FATHER OF THE PRIDE, your best bet is riffling through the barrage of Christmas-related programming to find the few gems (which I, your humble servant, have taken t...
Got a big Shopping List this week so let's get right into the Prize Closet, shall we? We've got FIVE copies of the big chunky MILLENNIUM Season 3 to give away! Who wants one? Well, to enter all you do is send an email containing your mailing address to ps...
We usually don't cover birthday announcements in this column. It's not that we're party poopers it's just that birthdays remind us that we're all inevitably sliding down a rough incline toward death. But we thought we'd make an exception in this case. La...
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment releases the second season of ANGEL today on DVD. This six-disc set compiles all 990 minutes worth of the show's sophomore season which includes the introduction of series regular Lorne (he's green, has horns, likes to ...
Ever since Max Fleischer's theatrical Superman cartoons amazed children in 1941, comic books have remained almost synonymous with animation. The connection should seem obvious enough -- still drawings invigorated with motion and sound. Animation almost se...
Modern horror music meister Christopher Young’s latest outing into the visceral world of musical mayhem is an outstanding and compelling composition, a kind of musical embodiment of the constant struggle between good and evil, set to the storyline of one ...
Those wondering if a new version of PLANET OF THE APES was a good idea or not will be able to decide this weekend, with the opening of the film on Friday and the release of the CD earlier in the week. This column we take a look at the new film score, whil...
This Week's RecommendationMark Isham's tense musical score for Gary Fleder's recent thriller DON'T SAY A WORD is a compelling and disturbing work on CD. Released on Varese Sarabande (302 066 291 2), it is alternately chilling, mysterious and poignant. Ish...
VIDEO NEWSBlade 2 has been announced for DVD release September 3rd as a feature laden, double disc package. In addition to the film itself, disc one will feature two commentary tracks, one with director Guillermo Del Toro and writer David Goyer and the se...
[EDITOR`S NOTE: A strange rift in time and space—a gateway to a parallel dimension—has opened up somewhere near Gastonia, North Carolina, allowing our faithful correspondent to report on events until now unknown in our dimension, events that take place in...
SteveVP: Hello. We`re chatting today with author Douglas Clegg. Clegg`s recent horror novel YOU COME WHEN I CALL YOU was reviewed on Fandom, as was his anthology of short horror stories THE NIGHTMARE CHRONICLES. To start the chat, I would like to ask Cleg...
How can I not mention horror movie action figures in my October toy column? I decided to list my Top 10 Horror figures in honor of All Hallow’s Eve. Everyone has their own opinion on what should be on the top 10. The following are my persona...
Sony Classical is preparing to release an expanded edition of the STAR WARS EPISODE 1: THE PHANTOM MENACE soundtrack on CD on November 14th. The new 2-CD collector’s release, titled The Ultimate Edition, will feature 68 tracks and more than 120 minutes o...
Part 2: Restorations & ReissuesApart from new soundtrack releases, archival restorations have played an important part in perpetuating a lot of film music (especially in the fantasy, science fiction, and horror genres) that would otherwise have been lost ...
The idea of a 2-CD set presenting music from some of the best horror film scores over the last century is a great idea, particularly using modern digital recording technology and faithful recreations of music lost to the ages. Unfortunately, what we have...
More celebrity guests have been announced for ManiaFest 2003, this fall's genre film festival. Presented in association with Cinescape magazine, ManiaFest is a four-day celebration of fantasy, science fiction and horror filmmakers and creators taking plac...
On the DVD commentrak to BIOHAZARD, writer and director Steve Latshaw says of his longtime associate, "There’s always something a bit odd about a Fred Olen Ray film." He’s right. In none of the over six dozen films he’s directed has Ray filmed a single sc...
Slim-pickings this week for sci fi and fantasy releases with only a handful of paperbacks and one hardcover hitting the shelves today. Night Shade Books releases the second Inspector Chen novel with the highly-anticipated The Demon And The City while Phi...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Scheduled for release on September 5th from Lakeshore Records, the soundtrack to JET LI'S FEARLESS is a massive action/adventure score from the composer of HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS and Kar Wai Wong luxurious drama, 2046, Shigeru...
Silva Screen Records presents History Of Horror, a newly recorded 2 CD set that features 28 spectacular works for chorus and symphony orchestra. Includes recordings of music from THE OMEN, THE SIXTH SENSE, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, GODZILLA, PEEPING TOM, YOU...
La-La Land Records presents the first ever Fangoria Weekend of Horrors "Maestros Of Horror" Composer Panel this Saturday, May 19, 2007 at the Burbank Airport Marriott Hotel.
Horror film composers take questions directly from the f...
Attending comics conventions this summer I noted an extreme drop off in the number of video pirates, which seems odd now that DVD burners are so much more common. Even I have one! A few years ago, every other table had an illegal copy of SPIDER-MAN on it ...
Varese Sarabande has posted the titles for their July limited edition CD Club offerings. Headlining the quartet of soundtrack preservations, limited to only 1,000 copies, is the music to SKY BANDITS, a near-epic 1986 adventure fantasy featuring an enthu...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATION Jerry Goldsmith's sultry and sexy score for Paul Verhoeven's provocative thriller, BASIC INSTINCT, has been given a new lease on life through the new release on Belgium's Prometheus label (XPCD 154), which expands the earli...
Screen Gems still UNTITLED EXORCISM PROJECT, a.k.a. THE EXORCISM OF ANNELIESE MICHEL, continues to cast in preparation of its November 16 start of filming. Joining the previously announced stars (Laura Linney and Tom Wilkinson) are Campbell Scott (SINGLES...
Anchor Bay Entertainment has released LIGHTNING BUG for the first time on DVD. The award-winning independent film, which traces the adolescence of an emerging special effects master, features Bret Harrison ("Grounded For Life," "The O.C."), Laura Prepon (...
Chicago will play host to the 6th Horror Film Festival put on by Gatlin Pictures at the historic 3 Penny Cinema from October 28th to November 3rd. The Festival will include nearly fifty films that include actors from, "The X-Files", "Hellraiser", "The Peo...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Daisuke MoriyamaTranslated by:Amy ForsythAdapted by:What They SaySister Rosette and company are about to embark on a mission to find Rosette's long-lost brother, but their journey might end before they leave the bright lights ...