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TV To Get An Experience Beyond Limits, Pain And Pleasure Indivisible, As Hellraiser Heads To The Googlebox

Alasdair Stuart writes for Bleeding Cool.

I'm absolutely serious. There are certain properties that are completely logical to bring across to TV, others which looks like they'll fail and do, and very, very occasionally, ones that have no right to be successful and are.

Game of Thrones, with it's vast array of characters and locations, is one.

This is another.

That's a fascinating, and frankly brave, choice to give the TV treatment. The movies have a constantly cycling cast of characters, they play with time frames and dimensions and the central concept is one which is both inherently tragic and profoundly disturbing; the point at which pleasure and pain become indistinguishable and where the wash of sensation, regardless of consequence, is all.

It's heady stuff. It's also full on crazy pulp genius and anyone who says different hasn't seen the first four movies, especially the one with the gigantic space station that's actually a Lament Configuration puzzle cube.

Actually, thinking about it, this may be the perfect horror property to move across to TV. The canvas is huge, the central premise has HBO or Starz written through it like Brighton through rock and it has a built in, if somewhat fatigued fanbase. It could be Supernatural with extra perversion, True Blood with the handbrake off. This has a lot of potential and I'm fascinated to see what Sonar do with it. Especially as Deadline are reporting that the company are also developing a series based on H.Rider Haggard's Allan Quartermain.

Put Hellraiser at one end of the spectrum and Quartermain at the other and suddenly you have a massive, and fascinating pulp spectrum to play in. I can't wait to see where they go with both shows.

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