Doug Bradley (Pinhead) talks deleted scene from Hellraiser

[SPeacock]

Happy Birthday, Doug Bradley! :)

[narukofan2]

I met the guy who played Pinhead at the 2011 Toronto Fan Expo.

Doug Bradley is actually a really nice and cool guy.

[marsakka]

remake is shit I wish I knew who was doing it b/c I would kickhim in his cockles

[leda1974]

I always find it surprising that Doug's totally lost his native accent. Then again, somehow I don't think Pinhead would have been quite so scary with a thick Scouse accent.

[WemmiLinks]

Douglas Bradley has apparently torn a couple people's souls apart and made their suffering legendary in hell.

[bluenail03]

What a stupid thing to delete!!!!! That would have explained so much about the Cenobites!!

[meckleboy]

amazing such a goofy looking guy(like someones Dad) could be transformed into one of the most frightening epic characters I ever seen in a horror movie.The power of acting I guess.Although lost it's scariness in part 3,4,5 etc

[PalaceOfExile]

@meckleboy I agree he goes from looking like a chump to a complete badass when in costume. He's almost unrecognizable when Pinhead. Did think that Hellraiser 4 was good though. It was just 3 that really sucked. Someone decided to put Pinhead in a "Freddy Krueger" phase which was awful. So yeah 1, 2, skip 3, 4, and skip everything after 4.

[Econniff]

@PalaceOfExile Just saw Hellraiser 3 for the first time last week. It's *not* good by any stretch, but I applaud them (or possibly just Doug Bradley) for preserving the essence of Pinhead during those long monologues. Monologues usually ruin horror monsters - they usually can't get past the first paragraph without tripping over his own ethos (see: Jigsaw). Overall, I think the film's problems came from bad directing and producing rather than bad storytelling.

[Carthsting]

He just hypnotised me.

[SPeacock]

Happy Birthday, Doug Bradley! (7 September) :)

[pikeybot]

he is god..

[wandererlain]

Wow, I never knew about this! Thanks to Doug Bradley for telling us. There's even a missing spanking scene that they shot that Barker reckons someone's got in their private collection somewhere. Hehehe!

[londea88]

Who wants to bet they will try and make a non animated film of the game Dante's inferno?

[pearljam619]

This on a dvd that is in UK? I have both the 1-3 boxsets but I dont remember this. Thanks! PS Remake is a bad idea!

[MetaMorphy]

It is a great idea as long as Clive Barker has input.

[londea88]

@MetaMorphy I was lookin at how there is a comic book series for it and I thought why not do an animated movie it may sound stupid but you can sometimes show things in a cartoon you can't show in a non animated movie.

[86Stooy]

@pearljam619 All remakes are crap and a bad idea. Recently the remake of Hellraiser has been put on hold,hopefully it will get cancelled. Pinhead is fat in it though from the pics I've seen

[SunnySkyNL]

Doug Bradley is the man !

[GRINDYOURMIND420]

it would of worked because the cenebites whole perpus is to make order from disorder it would of played nice

[codyofga]

they may have cut it out due to the idea for the second film being a giant maze where the cenebites have rule.

[jdmikeg4]

u didnt know that? u must not have grew up in the 80's

[SplitSpades11]

This was also included on the new special edition version of HELLRAISER:HELLBOUND released by Anchor Bay in the US and Canada.For those of you who would like to see the whole thing but live outside of the UK.I would have loved to see this scene sounds like it would have been really fucking scary!!!!!

[OrganMutilator]

Doug Bradley is such a talent. He made the character and turned the original into a franchise. I've seen all eight of the films and he makes every one of them worth watching. Especially Bloodline, where he gets the most screen time. Pure British stage actors kick Hollywood actors' asses every time.

[ExClUr]

You always have to bring up racial aspects, don't you? Although I myself like Doug Bradley (not as much I like Tony Randell, though) he is not the best actor one could find. I doubt he'd make an Oscar in some drama movie. Now actors like Al Pacino...

[OrganMutilator]

Not at all man. I'm a thirteenth generation American but facts are facts. Look at Ian McKellen, Ian McDiarmid, Christopher Lee, Ian Holm, Peter Cushing, the list goes on and on. Don't get me wrong, I love Joe Pesci, Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, etc. We have some greats also.  But when it comes to convincing, Shakespearian monologues, soliloquies, etc. and being just plain chilling, there is no substitute for the Brits. Can you imagine Pacino as Grand Moff Tarkin? Or Count Dooku? Or Gandalf?!

[OrganMutilator]

Or PINHEAD!!!!????? HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Al Pacino as Pinhead! DeNiro as Pinhead!!! Joe Pesci as PINHEAD!!!! LOL!  Tony Randell maybe...nahhhhhhh, he'll always be Felix Unger.

[ExClUr]

Was Gandalf played by a Brit?! By the way, why do you always judge actors by their abilities to play Pinhead? Why not Re-animator, like Jeffrey Combs, or Warlock, like Julian Sands? Imagine Doug Bradley as Warlock...

As for Brits, race and so on: don't get that sticky to words, perhaps I didn't use proper definition but it is at least a question of nationality (and by the way, liberals would still call you racist, not nationalist).

[OrganMutilator]

Also, I couldn't give a shit what liberals would call me.

[ExClUr]

"Also, I couldn't give a shit what liberals would call me" - neither would I, I just pointed out their negative influence on other people...

[OrganMutilator]

Yup, Sir Ian McKellen. Definitely a Brit.

[ExClUr]

"Yup, Sir Ian McKellen. Definitely a Brit" - or Scot or Irish... They aren't exactly the same, are they?

[privatekeepout]

English, Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish = British

[ExClUr]

Truly.

[ExClUr]

By the way, what does "Count Dooku" have to do with "convincing, Shakespearian monologues"? Paul Atreides from Lynch's "Dune" and colonel what's-his-name (he was played by Al Pacino and used to say hoo-ha all the time in "A Scent of a Woman") - perhaps, but Count Dooku... That's not serious.

[OrganMutilator]

Well I just think that there are some roles that the Brits are more convincing at, and a lawfully evil demon from hell is one of them. There's no denying that any of the Brit actors I mentioned would be laughable trying to play Pesci's role in Goodfellas, or Pacino's role in Scarface. But when the role requires someone stately and refined, most American actors come across as being too coarse. There are some very notable exceptions, Malkovich being one of them.

[ExClUr]

Actually, Pinhead's alignment is more lawful neutral than lawful evil... :-)

I have detected that you mention Al Pacino in movies I'd never mention as his accomplishments, although they were good. Try to watch "Insomnia".

"But when the role requires someone stately and refined..." - are you trying to say that the correct words describing Pinhead are "stately" and "refined"? Then what about Langella (Skeletor), again Julian Sands as Warlock, Jose Ferrer as the Emperor etc etc etc

[pickleRgreen]

what the hell does goodfellas have in common with hellraiser? yankies think they are the best at everything makes me laugh.

satanic rituals are an English tradition, it is fitting to have an English actor play the keeper of dominion.

any kid growing up in the uk during the 80's was petrified by this man, he nailed the part of pinhead.

[OrganMutilator]

Apparently you aren't adept at reading comprehension. If you were, you would have realized that I said that Doug Bradley played the role as few if any American actors could. Try thinking before you type next time.

[OrganMutilator]

Incidentally, I didn't know that the British were a race. I had always assumed that being British meant that you hailed from Britain. Silly me, I don't know where I got that idea from. Go figure...

[SidNightWalker]

Clive Barker is a God.Doug Bradley is...well, he's awesome too.

[WildRaven8472]

I suppose, in some way something like that being included would remove some of the mystery surrounding where the Cenobites come from a bit too early on. Would at least be nice too see what it looks like though.

[Maltafea]

I love his voice^^

[OrganMutilator]

Yeah, great voice and an awesome talent. I love listening to all of the Brit actors talk in interviews. They are very captivating.

[numb3r5ev3n]

I wish someone would go back and find all the lost footage from the first film. It would be great to see it entirely uncut.

[ravinspawn]

whao didn't know that shit i woud have put that in the film !!!!!