A first for Halloween Horror Nights. <p><strong>The Background</strong>: Nick Venable is an Assistant Managing Editor, and the TV Editor. His humble origin story with CinemaBlend began all the way back in the pre-streaming era, circa 2009, as a freelancing DVD reviewer and TV recapper. After rising up through the ranks covering Movies, Nick leapfrogged over to the small screen to cover more and more television news and interviews, eventually taking over the section for the current era. Born in Louisiana and currently living in Texas — Who Dat Nation over America’s Team all day, all night — Nick spent several years in the hospitality industry, and also worked as a 911 operator. And if you ever happened to hear his music or read his comics/short stories, you have his sympathy. His love for his wife and daughters is almost equaled by his love of gasp-for-breath laughter and gasp-for-breath horror. A lifetime spent in the vicinity of a television screen led to his current dream job, as well as his knowledge of too many TV themes and ad jingles.</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>What He's Into</strong>: Nick is one of those people who won’t necessarily insert a Monty Python reference into every conversation, but is still mentally equipped to do so. Beyond such appreciation for surreal UK comedy, Nick also indulges in as much horror splendor as possible, from Stephen King novels to James Tynion IV comics to Freddy Krueger one-liners to all things Mike Flanagan. Throw in a dash of NFL, some 311 and Weird Al, fried crawfish poboys, bourbon, ‘90s-era pro wrestling, crossword puzzles and mystery-driven video games, and baby, you got a stew going. (Nick will insert an Arrested Development reference into every conversation, if possible.)</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>What He's Excited About</strong>: Anything Jeff Lemire, Tom King and W. Maxwell Prince think of, ever. More of Kelly Reilly’s deliriously fierce performances on Yellowstone. HBO’s The Last of Us. Clone High’s return. Colin Farrell’s Penguin being in every movie/TV show/breakfast cereal.</p>

And Clive Barker is involved? Hell(raiser) to the yeah.

Y'know what we could all use during these troubled times? Some light, easy, feel-good entertainment. What's that? Per Deadline, HBO is developing a Hellraiser TV series based on Clive Barker's notorious, graphically violent, gothically vulgar horror property? Hmm. Well. I guess that works, too. Best known from Barker's 1987 horror classic, based on his own 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart, Hellraiser has since spawned a multiple feature-film franchise, and embedded Pinhead, the leading monstrous Cenobite who's got, well, pins in his head into our cultural consciousness alongside luminaries like Jason and Michael Myers. …

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While Videodrome remains exactly where it should be (in 1983; "Long live the new flesh!"), another flesh-fetish 80s horror franchise is in for a reboot. Clive Barker's Hellraiser, a 1987 original horror film that launched nine sequels, will be reimagined by Spyglass Media Group. They've tapped David S. Goyer (Batman Begins) to write the script and come aboard as a producer. THR reports that the new take on the 30+ year-old material will also reimagine the iconic character of Pinhead, the Hell Priest played exceptionally well by Doug Bradley, and the Cenobites, extra-dimensional beings who …