Hellraiser fans felt rather deflated a couple of weeks back when a new movie was announced with Doug Bradley – who famously played the role – not returning again to reprise his role. Well, it looks like we’ve got our new Pinhead.
Director Gary Tunnicliffe has announced that Paul T. Taylor (Sin City) will take on the iconic role, calling him, “a classically trained stage and film actor who brings a great physical presence and more than a hint of Peter Cushing and Ralph Fiennes. I can’t wait to get him bound in leather, gridded up and in front of the camera and on screens!”
Bradley publicly denounced the movie when it was announced, saying he had to sign a wavier just to read the script. Tunnicliffe responded via Facebook saying, “I was thrilled and excited to call Doug and let him know I was writing and directing HELLRAISER: JUDGMENT , I considered Pinhead HIS role and I was looking forward to working with him and bringing him back to the fans. Legally, we needed a simple non-disclosure agreement signed (very much common place now with production companies) but he immediately balked. I have no idea why, I’ve signed way more binding NDA’s than that myself, most actors and crew on productions of any size usually have to now. Doug wrote back to me… ‘I’m going to make myself liable for a million bucks I don’t have just to read a damn script?… I don’t think so’
I was stunned, after all it was my ‘damn’ script and it let me know how he felt straight away. I wrote to him saying I was sorry he felt that way and the next day the search for a new Pinhead began.”
Detectives Sean and David Carter are on the case to find a gruesome serial killer terrorizing the city. Joining forces with Detective Christine Egerton, they dig deeper into a spiraling maze of horror that may not be of this world. Could the Judgment awaiting the killer’s victims also be waiting for Sean?
Hellraiser: Judgement is heading into production soon and stars Heather Lagenkamp (A Nightmare on Elm Street), Damon Carney (The Hitcher), Randy Wayne (To Save a Life), Alexandra Harris (In the Shadows), John Gulagher (Feast), Diane Goldner (Halloween 2), Mike Jay Regan (Hellraiser: Deader), Andi Powers, Jeff Fenter (The Box), Helena Grace Donals (Portrait of an Art Thief) and Grace Mountie (Southern Tale).
Originally published March 7, 2016. Updated June 30, 2023.
