Hellraiser Raises Hell Again

Practically every successful horror movie made between 1960 and 1990 has been remade - Halloween, Dawn of the Dead, The Hitcher, etc. - or has a remake in the works.

And so it goes with Clive Barker's 1987 hit Hellraiser, which spawned several sequels and taught the world to be afraid of bald men who stick nails in their heads like they were pincushions.

Gay horror master Barker directed the original and has now given his blessing for Dimension Films to reboot the franchise with a remake.

The story, you may recall, deals with a cheating wife trying to liberate her lover from Hell and encountering the nasty demons known as Cenobites.

Will Barker's creation still have bite the second time around? Audiences will decide when it opens in 2008.