{"id":90628,"date":"2022-10-08T05:28:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T05:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/hellraiser-ending-director-explains-how-they-did-that\/"},"modified":"2022-10-08T05:28:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T05:28:01","slug":"hellraiser-ending-director-explains-how-they-did-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/hellraiser-ending-director-explains-how-they-did-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Hellraiser ending: Director explains how they did that"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hulu’s new Hellraiser <\/em>movie ripped and tore its way onto the streaming platform this week, bringing Pinhead back to life with new delights of pain and pleasure alike.<\/p>\n

The reboot-ish horror film arrives just in time for Halloween movie season and continues a storied tradition of Pinhead making people’s lives more filled with pain and pleasure. Jamie Clayton walked us through what it takes to become a Hellraiser and the intense makeup and prosthetic process to get into Pinhead mode.<\/p>\n

But what about that shocking ending? We talked with director David Bruckner and Clayton about how it got made and what it means.<\/p>\n

[Ed. note:<\/strong> This post contains spoilers for the end of Hellraiser<\/em> 2022.]<\/p>\n

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In the final stretch of Hellraiser<\/em>, protagonist Riley and her friends have made their way to the reclusive billionaire Voight’s compound, with the Cenobites close behind. They’ve set up shop and blocked out Pinhead and her pals, until it’s revealed that (1) Voight is still alive (although he has a giant nerve-rending machine sticking out of his torso, my favorite part of the movie) and ( 2) Riley’s boyfriend has been working for Voight the entire time.<\/p>\n

There’s a whole sequence that plays out between Voight, the Cenobites, and Riley’s friends, but that’s not what we’re here to talk about. We’re here to talk about what happens next \u2014 Voight gets his \u201creward,\u201d which is a gnarly display of skin-flaying in a stark-white room, transforming him into a Cenobite himself. It’s one of the most memorable and jarring sequences in the movie.<\/p>\n

According to Bruckner, a number of practical elements were used to construct the sequence. the Hellraiser <\/em>team created a skin suit and built a \u201creal torture table,\u201d using monofilament fishing line to pull apart the skin on the suit.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to No CGI,\u201d Bruckner claims. \u201cWe were adamant about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

New Pinhead Jamie Clayton recalled Bruckner bringing that up early on.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe told me he wanted do a lot of the effects practically,\u201d Clayton says. \u201cAnd I was like, [uncontrollable laughter<\/em>] They did it!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bruckner says advances in technology have made such techniques more doable, using light touches of VFX to augment the prosthetics work and other practical effects.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt felt like there were new opportunities down that path,\u201d Bruckner says. \u201cPart of the spirit of the franchise is to show them something that they haven’t necessarily seen before. And so it felt in keeping with that spirit more to allow ourselves to kind of invent and imagine.<\/p>\n

\u201cCenobites are generally nude, they don’t need to wear clothes, they’re kind of beyond all these earthly concerns in some way, and are just lost in their pursuit for experience. The flesh is sort of tailored and folded to almost look like clothing. We would say they are their own leather in some ways. And so you just require a little bit of augmentation to help bring it to life, but it’s all practical as well. It’s all actual light falling on prosthetics. And we’re just touching it up in small ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

But why end Hellraiser <\/em>in that way? It’s simple, Bruckner says \u2014 it’s in the spirit of transformation and change inherent to the series (and the Cenobites).<\/p>\n

\u201cTo have that be [Voight\u2019s] destination plays to the irony of the gifts, the joys of Hellraiser,\u201d Bruckner says. \u201cThe Cenobites are inviting you to a party you might not want to be a part of. [It\u2019s] the irony of ‘you’re gonna love this’ and you’re thinking, I don’t know if I’m going to love this!<\/em> It just felt [like] exactly the right place to leave it.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was quite the experience to witness on set, as Clayton can attest.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe days that all seven of the Cenobites were working, everyone’s covered in blood or losing an arm, or getting their skin [flayed],\u201d she said. \u201cThose days were massive. And they did all of that. All of that was happening in front of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hellraiser <\/strong><\/em>is available to stream on <\/strong>Hulu<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hulu’s new Hellraiser movie ripped and tore its way onto the streaming platform this week, bringing Pinhead back to life with new delights of pain and pleasure alike. The reboot-ish horror film arrives just in time for Halloween movie season and continues a storied tradition of Pinhead making people’s lives more filled with pain and …<\/p>\n

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