Any word on the sequel? I really enjoyed last year's CIAC. Not a perfect movie or a classic, but I found it to be a fun Slasher throwback with some great kills and it was just fun having an old-school style Slasher film in the modern age. The first film recovered it's budget and made a decent profit, so I'm hoping it'll be enough for a sequel. The novel had two sequels and it'd be good to see them adapted.
All three of these are a fun watch, though sadly with the third and final HOFA that was in 1992 you can tell there was clearly a big budget slash and it must've been unsuccessful enough that the planned fourth ceremony was sadly cancelled. It's especially fun seeing the Crypt Keeper in the first two HOFAs (he's unfortunately not at all in the third) and the second HOFA even featured a segment dedicated to the EC Horror comics.
Posted this on the r/hellraiser sub as well. We'll find out in a few short months from now how HHN's Hellraiser attraction will be, but it's said from the official description it has elements from the "trilogy," meaning the first three movies obviously including Hell On Earth. I'm curious as to what moments and setpieces from the first three movies we may see re-created as walkthrough mazes for the guests? The HHN wiki so far lists the settings as the Lament Configuration, the Cotton attic, Labyrinth and Channard Institute.
I would speculate that from the first movie we'll obviously get Frank's torture from the very beginning complete with the torture pillars and splattered gore all over, which would likely also have the Cenobites terrorizing the guests as they walk through. Then we get to Frank's resurrection through the floors, where he swipes at the guests trying to scare them. From there we get to the Engineer's appearance, which I can see being done as a jump scare as the guests go down a dark corridor and the Engineer appears out of nowhere, pursuing the guests as he did with Kirsty in the film. Then it gets to Kirsty's first encounter with the Cenobites and we get back to the Cotton resident where we get to the "Jesus Wept" scene, where the guests are likely to get splattered with gore as the Cenobites chase them out of the maze.
With the Hellbound portion, obviously much of it would consist of the Labyrinth's many corridors and seeing Leviathan (Leviathan's re-creation in front of the guests will certainly be something to see). The infamous "Get them off me!" scene would be a must to be re-created along with Julia's resurrection (and this would without a doubt be one of the most gruesome scenes to ever be at an HHN attraction). Channard's Cenobite transformation and his showdown with the Cenobites are likely setpieces to be seen, along with the film's final scene with the torture pillar with Pinhead's face in it. With Hell On Earth, there's many cool setpieces to be re-created as part of the attraction. I'd expect to see Pinhead's rebirth from the Pillar Of Souls and possibly before that when he kills Sandy and JP. The boiler room massacre would be a must and it'll be something seeing this sequence re-created with how gory and chaotic it is in the film. After that would be the Pseudo-Cenobites' pursuit of Joey in the deserted NYC streets and it'd a good bet we'll likely get the infamous "I am the way!" sequence re-created. It's possible Joey's stand-off with Pinhead and the Pseudos could be done here, and there's a good chance the final sequence in Spencer's limbo could be done. Joey all chained up and being terrorized by the gnarly bio-mechanical creature that bursts from under the floor (which would likely also try to scare the guests) and the confrontation between Pinhead and Spencer.
It's early right now, but it's still fun to speculate what moments from the films will be re-created. Knowing HHN they'll go the extra mile with this and then some. The fact Doug Bradley is recording all new dialogue solely for the attraction shows the dedication both he and the HHN crew are bringing to this. I fully expect the series will be more than done justice with how long overdue it's HHN debut has been.
We'll find out in a few short months from now how HHN's Hellraiser attraction will be, but it's said from the official description it has elements from the "trilogy," meaning the first three movies obviously including Hell On Earth. I'm curious as to what moments and setpieces from the first three movies we may see re-created as walkthrough mazes for the guests? The HHN wiki so far lists the settings as the Lament Configuration, the Cotton attic, Labyrinth and Channard Institute.
I would speculate that from the first movie we'll obviously get Frank's torture from the very beginning complete with the torture pillars and splattered gore all over, which would likely also have the Cenobites terrorizing the guests as they walk through. Then we get to Frank's resurrection through the floors, where he swipes at the guests trying to scare them. From there we get to the Engineer's appearance, which I can see being done as a jump scare as the guests go down a dark corridor and the Engineer appears out of nowhere, pursuing the guests as he did with Kirsty in the film. Then it gets to Kirsty's first encounter with the Cenobites and we get back to the Cotton resident where we get to the "Jesus Wept" scene, where the guests are likely to get splattered with gore as the Cenobites chase them out of the maze.
With the Hellbound portion, obviously much of it would consist of the Labyrinth's many corridors and seeing Leviathan (Leviathan's re-creation in front of the guests will certainly be something to see). The infamous "Get them off me!" scene would be a must to be re-created along with Julia's resurrection (and this would without a doubt be one of the most gruesome scenes to ever be at an HHN attraction). Channard's Cenobite transformation and his showdown with the Cenobites are likely setpieces to be seen, along with the film's final scene with the torture pillar with Pinhead's face in it. With Hell On Earth, there's many cool setpieces to be re-created as part of the attraction. I'd expect to see Pinhead's rebirth from the Pillar Of Souls and possibly before that when he kills Sandy and JP. The boiler room massacre would be a must and it'll be something seeing this sequence re-created with how gory and chaotic it is in the film. After that would be the Pseudo-Cenobites' pursuit of Joey in the deserted NYC streets and it'd a good bet we'll likely get the infamous "I am the way!" sequence re-created. It's possible Joey's stand-off with Pinhead and the Pseudos could be done here, and there's a good chance the final sequence in Spencer's limbo could be done. Joey all chained up and being terrorized by the gnarly bio-mechanical creature that bursts from under the floor (which would likely also try to scare the guests) and the confrontation between Pinhead and Spencer.
It's early right now, but it's still fun to speculate what moments from the films will be re-created. Knowing HHN they'll go the extra mile with this and then some. The fact Doug is recording all new dialogue solely for the attraction shows the dedication both he and the HHN crew are bringing to this. I fully expect the series will be more than done justice with how long overdue it's HHN debut has been.
About damn time Hellraiser is coming to HHN, was always surprised we never got an attraction sooner. Better late than never as they say. There's so many awesome setpieces from the first three movies that should make for great HHN mazes and Scarezones, and I can totally see Scareactors dressed as the Cenobites terrorizing the guests throughout the park. Knowing HHN, they'll pull out all the stops.
TFTC is my favorite TV series of all-time and over it's 93-episode run produced many excellent episodes that still hold up great. What are your favorites? Some of mine in no particular order except maybe for the first top 3 or 4:
I'm no doubt forgetting several. So many great ones. Television Terror is my absolute favorite and is still genuinely creepy and frightening all these years later. The Crypt Keeper was my worst childhood fear as a kid and I suspect he was the bane of nearly every 90s kid back then, but now that I'm well over my fear of him at my age I see the series for how brilliant it truly is and also the Crypt Keeper for the amazing character he is. The Crypt Keeper is a masterpiece of puppetry.
I'd like to own a set of those. Looks like a fun set to own. I enjoy collecting Horror trading cards and own quite a few, and these would definitely be a neat and fun addition. Not surprisingly this set is fairly sought after and can be quite pricey, but occasionally you can get them for agreeable prices.
Always liked this episode a lot and it's among my favorites of the series, probably having a spot in my top 15-20 or so favorite episodes. Such a creepy, unsettling mood it has throughout and an ending that's long stayed with me ever since first seeing it. It's a shame Kevin Yagher didn't have more of a directing career, between this and also Lower Berth, he showed promise as a director. He was understandably burned out and soured on it after the frustrating ordeal he went through directing Hellraiser: Bloodline.
Credit to the people who posted these, found these both on eBay auctions. I remember seeing the former standee at a grocery store back in the early 2000s hanging inside as part of the Halloween decorations and it freaked me out, wasn't expecting to see Crypty at all. Never seen the second one, which was used to promote Demon Knight's VHS release back then. I'd imagine both are quite rare and collectible these days and not easy to get ahold of.
There must be a fix or extension for this and one that preferably doesn't involve AI, as someone suggested the other day. This is so annoying, seeing posts from blocked and muted accounts still showing in searches. It defeats the entire purpose of the function and may as well not be available. I'm hopeful there may be at least an extension that helps to enforce the block/mute function and sees to it posts and content from such accounts never show in your searches and such. I use Firefox and am hopeful someone has such an extension for it.
I know I've posted about this before, but it's in equal levels quite alarming and infuriating the number of misandrists who claim male violence is somehow an "epidemic" and whenever we bring up the fact female violence against men/boys also happens and is vastly underreported. They have the nerve to accuse us of whataboutism when they do exactly the same. We say female violence against men/boys happens, they'll go on with the usual "It's not on the same scale," "It's not an epidemic like men being violent to women and girls." Just... ugh. Claiming it's an "epidemic" is just another way they want to deflect from the fact female on male violence is also a common occurance and feel threatened when attention is given to it.
I understand so far Revival will be an all-new story in the saga and legacy characters like Kirsty, Joey, etc. won't be in it (at least from what's been shown so far). But I wonder if sometime after the game's initial release we could get DLC featuring the legacy characters and perhaps even acting as a continuation from a certain point in the films? Would be awesome to eventually get. I always wished we'd gotten a Joey and Kirsty team-up in the films and a DLC for Revival that does that is the next best thing. There's other points in the series that'd be cool to explore too, like after Inferno >!maybe showing Detective Thorne trying to escape from his permanently looping Hell!< or even the pre-20th century eras as seen in Bloodline. I understand the developers right now are focused on the main game and rightfully so, but I'm hopeful later on we could get DLC featuring legacy characters and acting as sort of a further continuation of some storylines from the films.