Comments on: ‘Hellraiser’ Is Headed To TV https://staging2.theplaylist.net/hellraiser-is-headed-to-tv-20120404/ Fri, 13 May 2016 12:43:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Danny https://staging2.theplaylist.net/hellraiser-is-headed-to-tv-20120404/#comment-80240 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:43:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/hellraiser-is-headed-to-tv-111787/#comment-80240 I reckon the Harrowers would make a great tv show.

]]> By: Jacques DeMolay https://staging2.theplaylist.net/hellraiser-is-headed-to-tv-20120404/#comment-80241 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:43:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/hellraiser-is-headed-to-tv-111787/#comment-80241 The cool thing about this is that it's actually got a lot of potential. As shitty as the movies themselves are (after the first two), they Hellraiser mythology is so rich and expansive that it is kind of a more modern equivalent of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Like the Cthulu universe, Barker's Hellraiser world offers a shit ton of leeway for reinvention and interpretation and expansion. I mean, watching every one of the movies proves this, although most of them suck balls – the point remains valid that every one of the movies takes a different approach to the mythology.

It's far more likely that the TV show will be just as much of a disgrace as the recent movie offernings, but at the same time it could easily be another "Highlander: the Series" – at least worthy of a cult following and still a better treatment of the mythos than all but the first couple of films. Let's just hope it's not as dreadfully boring as The Walking Dead.

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