Hellbound: Hellraiser II

Let's cite our sources.

There's a Nerdist article by Rosie Knight, a very brief history of the Hellraiser franchise, a Slashfilm article by Scott Thomas, the entire Hellraiser timeline explained, The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker, all of the Hellraiser movies, Wikipedia and IMDb.

And of course, the articles will be linked in the description of the episode if you want to read along.

You know, Alan, it happens that like once a quarter I get really sick.

But nothing can stand in the way of us releasing our Halloween franchise episodes, you know?

Thanks, Abby.

The first film in the franchise was released in 1987, but the year before, Clive Barker released the short story that inspired the movie, The Hellbound Heart.

Barker was born in Liverpool, England in 1952.

And they had done Hellraiser, the first one.

And they were just doing Hellraiser 2.

And I'd sent them some of my work.

And I was invited in for an interview.

And they were like, we haven't got anything in the moment.

We're finishing off Hellraiser 2.

You know, keep in touch.

And then they got a film called Nightbreed, Clive Barker's Nightbreed.

And the production design and the art design of the movie is, I think, in a word, insane

like this house is crazy so there's a couple things here so this is um directed by tony randall who we've done on the show before with hellbound hellraiser 2 and ticks um both movies you should watch um and uh he talks about this on the the the blu-ray thing uh about painting the house and he said yeah it was a specific decision to kind of make this house uh ugly and and bizarre because it was because the movie is this commentary about suburbia and suburban life and all this kind of stuff right it's it's far cry from spooky old house like it ain't that right which yeah i i like that dichotomy certainly for the two movies we're doing that we get yeah we get the classic old yeah here's the old fixer-upper house that i guess has a satan dungeon in the basement that nobody knew about um that that rains poop on you

Right.

And this movie also does like Satan Dungeon, but it's it's weirder.

And it does have just a much more...

It has that Tony Randall fun spirit that I've seen.

And even Hellraiser 2, which... it's not a movie that's trying to be fun.

No.

yet still have doubts about it.

And the mind is a labyrinth, like one of the villains says in the movie Hellraiser 2, or Hellbound Hellraiser 2.

And the fact that you can have contradictions is something that movements like MAGA take full advantage of.

Because life, it really doesn't make perfect sense and it probably never will.

All right, well, just real quickly, I'm...

Don't tell me now, because I believe Hellraiser 2 is next year, right? Next calendar year? Yeah, they made that one fast.

Okay, yeah.

Because I can't imagine where the series goes, but you're kind of telling me it's going to change a little bit, but...