Over the years, dozens, if not hundreds, of horror films have slashed their way through the American Film Market, but few have left as indelible an impression as 1987’s Hellraiser
Making his directorial debut — he insisted on directing after disliking earlier film adaptations of his work — Barker secured a bare-bones $900,000 budget from New World Pictures.
“The look of the Cenobites, such as the pins in their leader’s head, was inspired by S&M clubs,” he later explained in an interview with. “Sex is a great leveler. It made me want to tell a story about good and evil in which sexuality was the connective tissue. Most English and American horror movies were not sexual, or coquettishly so — a bunch of teenagers having sex and then getting killed.
This story first appeared in The Hollywood Reporter’s Nov. 4 daily issue at the American Film Market.
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