Sean Chapman

Date of Birth

1961-06-02

Place of Birth

Greenwich, London, England, UK

Known for

Joy Division, Hellraiser, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, Contact, Underworld

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Hellraiser reboot will raise hell at Hulu

Posted 5 years ago

The Hellraiser reboot has found a home! It has been announced that Hulu just scooped up the Spyglass Media film, which will be helmed by The Night House director David Bruckner. The reboot will be yet another adaptation of Clive...

Clive Barker regains Hellraiser rights after lengthy court battle

Posted 6 years ago

Clive Barker, and more importantly, Clive Barker's Hellraiser series, scored a huge victory in what could be a game-changing legal ruling. Barker prevailed in court and will now control all of the Hellraiser rights in the U.S. beginning in 2021. Barker wrote...

HBO’s Hellraiser series enlists Clive Barker as executive producer

Posted 6 years ago

Based on his novella "The Hellbound Heart," Clive Barker wrote and directed HELLRAISER back in 1987, and subsequent years found the film becoming a franchise with a handful of sequels that couldn't hope to recapture the magic of the original....

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Judd Apatow’s The King of Staten Island going straight to VOD on June 12

Posted 6 years ago

If there's any filmmaker that can pull up-and-coming comedic actors into the spotlight, it's Judd Apatow, even if it means making them the ruler of where New York's garbage goes to die, Staten Island. It's been announced that the Apatow-directed comedy...

Halloween’s David Gordon Green set to helm Hellraiser TV series for HBO

Posted 6 years ago

Your suffering will be legendary, even on HBO. Deadline has the scoop that David Gordon Green, director of 2018's HALLOWEEN and its upcoming sequels, is set to helm a TV series based upon Clive Barker's HELLRAISER. Colour me intrigued. HBO...

David Bruckner to direct Hellraiser reboot for Spyglass Media

Posted 6 years ago

Sooner or later, every horror franchise gets the reboot treatment, and one of the next will be Clive Barker's HELLRAISER. There have been several attempts at relaunching the franchise over the decades, and it seems that the latest will come...

Hellraiser to dominate as a TV series after rights deal is sealed

Posted 7 years ago

When I was only nine-years-old, my parents took my sister and I on a vacation to Maine. While there, we stayed in a train station that had been converted into a rental for wayward tourists. During our first evening there,...

Clive Barker’s Hellraiser to get the reboot treatment from David S. Goyer

Posted 7 years ago

Sooner or later, every franchise gets the reboot treatment, and the latest to board the reboot train is Clive Barker's HELLRAISER. A reboot of the 1987 horror classic has been in the works for over a decade in various hands,...

The Test of Time: Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)

Posted 7 years ago

We all have certain movies we love. Movies we respect without question because of either tradition, childhood love, or because they’ve always been classics. However, as time keeps ticking, do those classics still hold up? Do they remain must see?...

Clive Barker offers details on the upcoming Hellraiser reboot

Posted 12 years ago

When you think of the big names from 1980s horror, you tend to think of Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, and Michael Myers. One name always on the outskirts is Pinhead from Clive Barker‘s HELLRAISER. The disturbing body horror of Barker’s...

The JoBlo Sunday Night Movie Chat: Hellraiser

Posted 12 years ago

We have been experiencing some small technical problems with the chatroom. You can still access it easily by clicking the picture below and typing in the comment bar this command. /join #moviefancentral The reason there was no chat last weekend...

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