Arrow Video is releasing a 4K set of the primary 4 Hellraiser films – with a newly uncovered workprint model of Hellraiser: Bloodline!

UPDATE: Last yr, Arrow Video launched the primary 4 Hellraiser movies in a 4K box set known as Hellraiser: Quartet of Torment. That box set is now making its solution to North America, with a launch date of October 22nd within the US and Canada! For info on what’s contained within the set, take a look at the write-up on final yr’s UK launch beneath. It seems that every thing from the UK set will probably be included within the North American set.

The unique article follows:

A pair years in the past, screenwriter Peter Atkins – who labored on the scripts for the primary three Hellraiser sequels – revealed his unique screenplay for the famously troubled fourth movie, Hellraiser: Bloodline (the script is offered for buy at THIS LINK), saying, “Whilst you’ll never get to see a Director’s Cut of Hellraiser: Bloodline, you can read in this book what was supposed to be…” But regardless that the manufacturing was too sophisticated for us to ever see a correct director’s minimize, there’s a “newly uncovered workprint version” – and it’s going to be included in Arrow Video’s upcoming 4K box set launch of the primary 4 Hellraiser films!

Here’s the data on the movies: We Have Such Sights To Show You… In the Nineteen Eighties, Clive Barker modified the face of horror fiction, throwing out the foundations to reveal new vistas of terror and wonder, increasing the horizons for each style author who adopted him. With Hellraiser, his first function movie, he did the identical for cinema. Hedonist Frank Cotton (Sean Chapman) thinks he has reached the boundaries of earthly pleasure. But a mysterious puzzle box will take him additional than he can probably think about, opening the doorways to a dominion the place ache and pleasure are indivisible and summoning the Cenobites, whose experiments within the increased reaches of expertise will tear his soul aside. When he manages to flee, Frank returns to the world skinless and in want of assist. Now his former lover Julia (Clare Higgins) should kill to make him complete once more. But the Cenobites need Frank again, and there’ll be hell to pay after they discover him.

Hellbound: Hellraiser II expands on Barker’s unique imaginative and prescient as screenwriter Peter Atkins takes Julia Cotton, her step daughter Kirsty (Ashley Laurence) and the sinister Dr. Channard (Kenneth Cranham) into the dominion of the Cenobites themselves. Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth sees Pinhead set unfastened on the sinful streets of New York City to create chaos with a recent cadre of Cenobitic kin. Then, Hellraiser: Bloodline sinks its hooks into previous, current and future with the story of Phillip LeMarchand, the 18th-century toymaker who made the lament configuration puzzle box, his descendent John Merchant – a Twentieth-century architect whose most up-to-date constructing bears a placing resemblance to the lament configuration – and Dr. Paul Merchant, a Twenty second-century engineer and designer of The Minos, an area station which is a good deal greater than it appears.

Experience the elegant agony of this quartet of torment such as you by no means have earlier than in all-new 4K restorations from the unique digital camera negatives. Hell has by no means appeared higher!

And right here’s the checklist of product options:

Brand new 4K restorations of all 4 movies from the unique digital camera negatives by Arrow Films
Ultra High Definition (2160p) shows of all 4 movies in Dolby Vision (hdr10 suitable)
Original lossless stereo and Dts-hd Ma 5.1 encompass audio for all 4 movies
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and onerous of listening to
Ages of Desire, an unique 200-page hardback e book with new writing from Clive Barker archivists Phil and Sarah Stokes
Limited version layered packaging that includes model new Chatterer art work

Disc 1 Hellraiser

Brand new audio commentary that includes style historian (and unit publicist of Hellraiser) Stephen Jones with writer and movie critic Kim Newman
Archival audio commentary with author/director Clive Barker and actor Ashley Laurence, moderated by Peter Atkins
Archival audio commentary with author/director Clive Barker
Power of Imagination – model new 60-minute dialogue about Hellraiser and the work of Clive Barker by movie students Sorcha Ní Fhlainn (editor of Clive Barker: Dark Imaginer) and Karmel Kniprath
Unboxing Hellraiser – model new visible essay celebrating the Lament Configuration by style writer Alexandra Benedict (The Beauty of Murder)
The Pursuit of Possibilities – model new 60-minute dialogue between acclaimed horror authors Paula D. Ashe (We Are Here To Hurt Each Other) and Eric LaRocca (Everything the Dark Eats) celebrating the queerness of Hellraiser and the significance of Clive Barker as a queer author
Flesh is a Trap – model new visible essay exploring physique horror and transcendence within the work of Clive Barker by style writer Guy Adams (The World House)
Newly uncovered prolonged Epk interviews with Clive Barker and stars Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, and results artist Bob Keen, shot throughout the making of Hellraiser, with a brand new introduction by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman
Original 1987 Electronic Press Kit
Being Frank: Sean Chapman on Hellraiser – archival interview with the actor
Under the Skin: Doug Bradley on Hellraiser – archival interview with the long-lasting actor about his first look as ‘Pinhead’
Soundtrack Hell: The Story of the Abandoned Coil Score – archival interview with Coil member Stephen Thrower
Trailers and TV spots
Image gallery
Draft screenplays

Disc 2 Hellbound: Hellraiser II

Brand new audio commentary that includes Stephen Jones and Kim Newman
Archival audio commentary with director Tony Randel, author Peter Atkins and actor Ashley Laurence
Audio commentary with director Tony Randel and author Peter Atkins
Hell Was What They Wanted! – model new 80-minute appreciation of Hellbound, the Hellraiser mythos and the work of Clive Barker by horror authors George Daniel Lea (Born in Blood) and Kit Power (The Finite)
That Rat-Slice Sound – model new appreciation of composer Christopher Young’s scores for Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II by Guy Adams
Archival on-set interview with Clive Barker
Archival on-set interview with solid and crew
Behind the scenes footage
Being Frank: Sean Chapman on Hellbound – archival interview concerning the actor’s return to the position of Frank Cotton
Under the Skin: Doug Bradley on Hellbound – archival interview with the long-lasting actor about his second look as ‘Pinhead’
Lost within the Labyrinth – archival featurette that includes interviews with Barker, Randel, Keen, Atkins and others
Trailers and TV spots
Image gallery

Disc 3 Hellraiser III: Hell On Earth

Alternative Unrated model (incorporates normal definition inserts)
Brand new audio commentary that includes Stephen Jones and Kim Newman
Archival audio commentary with screenwriter Peter Atkins (Theatrical Cut solely)
Archival audio commentary with director Anthony Hickox and actor Doug Bradley (Unrated Version solely)
Previously unseen prolonged Epk that includes interviews with Clive Barker and Doug Bradley
FX dailies
Time with Terri – archival interview with actor Paula Marshall
Raising Hell on Earth – archival interview with director Anthony Hickox
Under the Skin: Doug Bradley on Hellraiser III – archival interview with the long-lasting actor about his third look as ‘Pinhead’
Theatrical trailer
Image gallery

Disc 4 Hellraiser: Bloodline

Brand new audio commentary that includes screenwriter Peter Atkins, with Stephen Jones and Kim Newman
The Beauty of Suffering – model new featurette exploring the Cenobites’ connection to goth, fetish cultures and Bdsm
Newly uncovered workprint model of the movie, offering an enchanting perception into the way it modified throughout publish manufacturing
Hellraiser Evolutions – archival documentary on the evolution of the franchise and its enduring legacy, that includes interviews with Scott Derrickson (director, Hellraiser: Inferno), Rick Bota (director, Hellraiser: Hellseeker, Deader and Hellworld), Stuart Gordon (director, Re-Animator, From Beyond) and others
Books of Blood and Beyond: The Literary Works of Clive Barker – archival appreciation by horror writer David Gatwalk of Barker’s written work, from The Books of Blood to The Scarlet Gospels
Theatrical trailer
Image gallery
Easter egg

Are you a fan of Hellraiser movies, and can you be shopping for the Hellraiser: Quartet of Torment 4K box set? Let us know by leaving a remark beneath – and whilst you’re scrolling down, take a look at the pictures of the set. There’s the restricted version with a Chatterer slipcase and the usual version with Pinhead: