HellRaiser Pin-up # 5 FRAMED The Horror by Ted McKeever

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Hellraiser (also known as Clive Barker’s Hellraiser) is a 1987 British horror film written and directed by Clive Barker, based upon his own novella The Hellbound Heart. The film spawned a series of sequels and was Barker’s first feature film. On October 24, 2013, Clive Barker posted on his official Facebook page that he would be personally writing the remake of the original “Hellraiser” and that he had already completed a deal with Dimension Film’s Bob Weinstein. He also stated that he will be pushing for practical effects rather than CGI and the original Cenobite actor Doug Bradley would be returning as Pinhead. Here is his official post: “HOT FROM HELL! My friends,I have some news which may be of interest to you. A few weeks ago I had a very productive meeting with Bob Weinstein of Dimension Pictures,in the course of which I pitched a remake of the first HELLRAISER film. The idea of my coming back to the original film and telling the story with a fresh intensity – honoring the structure and the designs from the first incarnation but hopefully creating an even darker and richer film – was attractive to Dimension. Today I have officially been invited to write the script based upon that pitch. What can I tell you about it? Well, it will not be a film awash with CGI. I remain as passionate about the power of practical make-up effects as I was when I wrote and directed the first HELLRAISER. Of course the best make-up in the world loses force if not inhabited by a first-rate actor. I told the Dimension team that in my opinion there could never be a Pinhead without Doug Bradley, and much to my delight Bob Weinstein agreed. So once the papers are signed, I will open a Lemarchand Configuration, dip my quill in its contents and start writing. I promise that there will be nowhere on the Internet where the news of my progress will be more reliable than here, because the only author of these reports will be Your Infernal Corespondent, me. My very best wishes to you all,my friends. Clive.” The Hellraiser franchise was adapted to comic book form in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

“Horror is something you should taste. Something you should savor while in its embrace; Something you should feel long after its conclusion. Not something that turns your stomach, or causes you to look away. The ideal horror…the Best Horror, is the kind that drifts back after a slight chill breathes past you on a wet autumn eventing. Or at the end of the day, when the shadows grow long, and for a brief instant the only sound you hear is that of your own breath entering, and leaving your body. The obvious” horror is always fleeting, but the “quiet” horror is eternal. And always possible.” – Ted McKeever.

Ted McKeever is a comic book writer and artist who has been working in the field since the early 1980’s. Known more as an artist than as a writer (due in large part to the fact that all of his writing projects are ones where he is both the writer and the artist), McKeever holds a sturdy reputation for delivering gritty, highly surreal and often very difficult to describe material. McKeever’s “Trippy” subject matter and recurring themes of technology out of control and/or gone wrong as well as bodily modifications draw certain parallels to the work of filmmaker David Cronenberg (Videodrome, Naked Lunch, Dead Ringers) who has a similar reputation to McKeever’s in his own medium. This is his blessing and his curse as, with his bizarre material catering largely to a small but loyal audience, much of McKeever’s work has been out of print since its initial sequentialized issue printings.

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