Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror by Stephen Jones

But I must have somehow unconsciously seen images of these fetishes at some point. The fact that it has been picked off a number of times with make-up jobs and magazines, fashion stuff that uses that image in some way since, but I use it too. But it does mean that I seem to have plugged into the collective unconscious when I had that image. Now I don't know how that exactly ties in with Pinhead because he's not necessarily a very angry character. When I thought about the nails, I had thought about images of rage. We're talking having very crude nails driven into them from all angles, so you're talking about having like 100 nails inside someone's body. Pieces of craft and they're often bound with string and blood and are often made with a lot of passion. When I went to look this up, there's a lot of 19 th Century stuff which is amazing and crude but very, very powerful. So the fetish statue and are will be used as a place to put 'bad' feelings-like human beings with nails driven into them. It is interesting that there is this dark life that was pointed out to me about 6-7 years ago that was pointed out to me that there are African fetish statues that are used as focuses for feelings, particularly negative feelings. I am not going to claim any genius about that at all. It's an image that has seemed to become iconic. But it ended up on the call sheet and it just stuck. I was like 'wait a second, you just named my villain Pinhead?' because I didn't think that sounded very dignified. Pinhead was the name that the special effects guy used actually. I didn't use those words in my script because that Cenobite didn't even have a name. In number 3, he's called the Pope of Hell which came about later in the scripts. He brings to the role…well, have I mentioned him being a priest before? That was a note I gave him early on, that he's a priest of Hell. Had the greater good fortune to have my good buddy Doug (Bradley) play this character, who has this Shakespearean gravitas about him. And into this small enclosed world comes this god-awful force and I just had the great good fortune been given the image of a guy with pins in his head. The picture is essentially a family saga, Chekov with blood, and that is this very small thing. That would be really detrimental to the picture. Mine was a small picture and I would hate it if they opened it up.

There's a part of me that feel that with the new technologies, the way that we had such a modest budget on my Hellraiser movie so if we can have 5-6 times that on the new Hellraiser remake, I think we'll get an awesome picture out of that. I am a little bit of a schizophrenic about this so forgive me if I sound like two different people on this.

Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror by Stephen Jones