1. Since it was based on his novel The Hellbound Heart, that was originally going to be the film’s title. The studio objected, saying it sounded too much like a romance film. Barke… See more

3. Clive Barker had only made two short movies before Hellraiser, which marked his debut as a feature-film director. 4. Clive Barker said he was disappointed with how producers t… See more

9. Over the course of the Hellraiser series, the breakout villain was Pinhead the Cenobite, originally played by actor Doug Bradley. Ironically, in 1973—14 years before Hellr… See more

22. Barker had originally chosen the industrial band Coil to record the Hellraiser soundtrack. They recorded a soundtrack that Barker said “made my bowels chu… See more

23.As with the novel, the film was set in England, but Roger Corman’s new World Pictures said the film would be more successful if it was set in the USA. Much of the dialogu… See more