Horror TV has been huge these past couple years, and so it makes sense that the powers that be behind the scenes have finally gotten their act together and will be bringing us a series based on Clive Barker’sHellraiser. This new series is headed our way fromITproducer Roy Lee andReady Player Oneproducer Dan Farah.
Lee and Farah will be joining forces with producer-rightsholders Lawrence Kuppin, David Salzman and Eric Gardner to bringPinheadand his fellow Cenobites to the small screen for the first time ever. Kuppin, Salzman, and Gardner have controlled the TV rights to Barker’s tale since 1989 when New World Pictures was sold.
Evidently, the producers are currently searching for a writer and a showrunner to take the lead on the plannedCenobiteseries and will then begin pitching ideas to networks and various streaming platforms. They plan to use the mythology established in Barker’s novellaThe Hellbound Heartand the movie franchise in general. There isn’t currently word on just what this new series will center on specifically, story-wise, but it’s said the producers are open to the show being either an anthology likeTales from the Cryptor a more “traditional narrative.”
This update on aHellraiserTV series comes on the heels of the recent news that Gary Barber’s Spyglass Media Group and producer-writer David S. Goyer (The Dark Knight,Blade) aredeveloping a Hellraiser rebootfor worldwide theatrical distribution. But no worries, the plan is to continue moving ahead with that film as well. Like the currentChild’s PlayTV series headed our way from franchise creator Don Mancini, the feature rights toHellraiserare separately controlled by Spyglass, so it looks like we might have new takes on Pinhead and Barker’sHellraiserhitting the big and the small screens soon. Which sounds good to this here horror fan! Especially considering that Spyglass and Goyer’sHellraiserreboot was described as a “loyal, yet evolved reimagining” of the source material.
For those of you that might not know,Clive Barker’s original 1987 filmtold the tale of a sexual deviant named Frank Cotton who inadvertently opens a portal to hell when he tinkers with a box he bought while abroad and gruesome beings called Cenobites tear Frank’s body apart. Then what is left of Frank is brought back to life accidentally by Frank’s brother and his wife when they move into Frank’s old house. From there the graphic and gooey reanimated Frank convinces his one-time lover, Julia, to lure men back to the house so he can use their blood to reconstruct himself.
Once again, there is no word on whether or not the producers plan to use this as the show’s storyline.
Clive Barker wrote and directedHellraiserwhich was produced by Christopher Figg based on Barker’s novellaThe Hellbound Heart. The film features music by Christopher Young, cinematography by Robin Vidgeon, and editing by Richard Marden and Tony Randel. Film Futures was the production company behind the movie which Entertainment Film Distributors unleashed into UK theaters back on July 11, 2025. This story comes to us viaDeadline.
