Hellraiser: Revival (Game Trailer/Announcement)

        Yesterday, IGN dropped the trailer for the video game Hellraiser: Revival. Initially, the Hellraiser franchise was birthed from Clive Barker's prose story Hellbound Heart. Since then, there have been an array of books, movies, comics, games, and so forth revolving around the Hellraiser Universe. While the majority of the movies are recognizable as a bastardization of the series that I came to love as a young boy via the first 2 films, I found it refreshing to see a game trailer that seems to be made by people who truly love the franchise and honor those first two films & more in its visual representation.

       As you'd imagine, this trailer shows CGI nudity, has sexual, sadomasicistic themes, molevolent violence, tourture, and so forth - as they are consistent with the franchise. As many fans know Pinhead and the other Cenobites seemingly derive pleasure from pain. True fans can read a lot into Clive Barker's real life experiences working as a male prostitute, servicing much older men for their pleasure and all in the tones of this. Regardless of whether anyone is that adept or not, the Hellraiser franchise  has very real themes of overcoming the hidden darkness that stalks and seeks to consume anyone who might find their way to its door.

Hellraiser: Revival will be available on PS5, XBox Series XS, & Steam (PC). For more information, go to: https://www.HellraiserGame.com 

***WARNING: The developers describe the content like this: “The game features depictions of mature language, strong violence, gore, torture, consensual mutilation, drug and alcohol abuse, tobacco use, and non-explicit consensual sex. Narrative sequences additionally contain themes of suicide, domestic abuse, BDSM practices, and addiction.”***

GAME TRAILER (Age Restricted): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R88QdlIlg-E