Clive Barker Returns To HELL By Joining New HBO HELLRAISER Adaptation As Executive Producer

What sites will Clive Barker show us once more?

Hellraiser has to be one of our top 10 Horror films. It has blood, guts, sex, and violence, what more could a fan ask for? Well in recent years, this franchise…lets just say…wasn’t CUTTING IT. With the slew of bad sequels (Anything after Hellraiser 4 is questionable) and the property resting in film purgatory for who knows how long, we had lost hope that the cenobites would rule the day once more…

Never fear tho! Back in April, news broke out that HBO was going to be tackling the gates of hell and with a mighty team at that.

Including David Gordon Green (Halloween Kills) directing the pilot and “several more initial episodes,” and Michael Dougherty (Trick ‘r Treat, Krampus, Godzilla: King of the Monsters) writing alongside Mark Verheiden (“Battlestar Galactica”)

Now we can confirm, thanks to our friends at Deadline, Clive Barker has joined the fray. Now the party can start!

Barker will executive produce the first-ever “Hellraiser” TV series. Notably, this is the first time Barker has had credited involvement with a Hellraiser adaptation since 1996’s Bloodline.

Deadline details, “The idea is to create an elevated continuation and expansion of the well-established Hellraiser mythology. It is by no means a remake, but rather assumes the past mythology to be a given. The centerpiece remains Pinhead, the pin cushion-headed merciless leader of the Cenobites, the formerly humans-turned-demons that live in an extra-dimensional realm and are activated through a puzzle box called the Lament Configuration. The Cenobites come from hell to harvest human souls and keep balance between good and evil.”

Barker said in a statement, “[I’m] delighted the Hellraiser mythology is seeing a new life. It’s time the stories went back to their roots. I’m eager to bring to a new audience the most powerful and ancient elements of horror: the darkest evil invading our human lives and how we must find in ourselves the power to resist it.”

Executive producers include David Gordon Green, Michael Dougherty, Mark Verheiden, Dan Farah, Vertigo Entertainment’s Roy Lee, Lawrence Kuppin, David Salzman, Eric Gardner, Andrew Farah, Adam Salzman, Danny McBride, Jody Hill and Brandon James.

Mark Verheiden will serve as showrunner.