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Here is a statement from the author Clive Barker about the project:
"... delighted the Hellraiser mythology is seeing a new life. It's time the stories went back to their roots. I'm eager to bring to a new audience the most powerful and ancient elements of horror: The darkest evil invading our human lives and how we must find in ourselves the power to resist it."
Here is the statement from one of the executive producer of the project, Dan Farah:
"Hellraiser stated with Clive's imagination and we couldn't be more excited to have him on board."
Here is the goodreads synopsis of The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker:
In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. For Frank it began with his own insatiable sexual appetite, a mysterious lacquered box- and then an unhinged voyage through a netherworld of imaginable pleasures and unimaginable horror… Now Frank - or what is left of Frank - waits in an empty room. All he wants is to live as he was before. All Julia can do is bring him her unfulfilled passions… and a little flesh and blood…
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