Hellraiser at 30: how Britain’s most perverse horror movie was born – Telegraph.co.uk

It is a grey afternoon in late 1986 and, in an anonymous suburb of northwest London, a Hollywood executive is on a mission of considerable urgency. His destination is a dilapidated studio complex in Cricklewood, where a rag-tag of fledgling filmmakers is burning through a million dollars of someone elses money.

The first-timers have vowed to make a visceral horror movie which, in an era of camp schlock, will reconnect the genre to its roots. But when early footage wasscreened for the projects backers at New World Pictures in Los Angeles there wasconcern that, rather than summoning unspeakable terrors, the newcomers appeared to be cobbling together an off-beat home improvement video.

None of us had made a film before and we scheduled that all the scenes on the stairs were shot first, recalls Christopher Figg, today an esteemed producer whose credits include Dog Soldiers and Lynne Ramsays...

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