Harry d'Amour vs. Pinhead

Marcel Hellemons

Harry d'Amour vs. Pinhead

DarkFocus was the first to report on Clive Barker's official announcement of Pinhead's literary death during his lecture in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. After delving through the online archive that is called 'Clive Barker's upcoming book announcements' I found some interesting details on the characters of the final Hellraiser story.

In 1998 Clive Barker, the original writer and director of the first two Hellraiser movies, already said:

"Then I will do a collection of short stories which I talked about briefly. Which does have some D'Amour, and a Hellraiser story in it. I'm returning to these mythologies and it was kind of interesting because I thought I would do these things and I thought 'Geez I want to tell a story about the man with pins in his head. I haven't told about him for a long time.' I'm looking forward to that."

"It's kind of interesting, because I'm writing a Harry D'Amour vs. Pinhead short story right now, so the same question pertains. But it's tremendous fun. They walk onto the page and I think, 'Hey, man, it's good to see you!'"

In an interview on August 25th 2000 Clive Barker told the interviewer:

"I don't discount the possibility I will do more short stories after the Pinhead/Harry story which is a very important story for me in my mythology because it will be the last thing that I will ever write about Pinhead. Because after this there will be no more Pinhead stories. Because this story is the end of Pinhead. This story will mark his death."

"[Hellraiser Inferno] is just an abomination. I want to actively go on record as saying I warn people away from the movie. It's really terrible and it's shockingly bad, and should never have been made. So I want to give Pinhead a good send-off. I want to do it right. If we are going to get rid of the old guy, let's do it with some style. So my whole idea was if I do it with Harry I can bring in two characters at the same time and sort of weave their stories together."

"What it will do for me is kill him in my mythological range. Others may wish to pick the story up and do something else with him, but as far as I'm concerned once I've told the story, it's the last of the guy."

"What I'm trying to do is give the guy a decent dignified send-off. It's really important to me, and I think he's a great monster. I really hate the way he's been treated in this film. It depressed me."

Pinhead's cause of death

Pinhead gets killed in a way you wouldn't expect. If you read through the pages of Clive Barker's website you will actually be able to find out how Pinhead dies. Because this is such a big spoiler for all Clive Barker fans out there I will not be mentioning it here. All I can do is give you the website address of the horror master himself and you can try and find it for yourself. (Hint: search for "23 September 1999")

http://www.clivebarker.dial.pipex.com/newbooksd.html

Article source: DarkFocus.com

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