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16 unusual facts about Jani "Hellraiser" Sointula


Color Dreams

One Color Dreams project that was never released was a game based on the movie Hellraiser.

Hellraiser

On 20 October 2010, it was officially announced that Patrick Lussier and Todd Farmer were to direct and write, respectively, the reboot of the Hellraiser franchise.

Coil's original theme was later covered by the Italian black metal band Aborym on their debut album Kali Yuga Bizarre.

Canadian band Skinny Puppy also sampled "Jesus Wept" in the track "Fascist Jock Itch", as did Belgian Industrial act Suicide Commando for their track "Jesus Wept" on their Mindstrip album.

Hellraiser: Best of the Epic Years

The compilation includes songs from the albums 1916 and March ör Die, as well as two non-album tracks that had been on the single "The One to Sing the Blues".

#"R.A.M.O.N.E.S." (Campbell, Burston, Kilmister, Taylor) – taken from 1916

#"Dead Man's Hand" (Campbell, Burston, Kilmister, Taylor) – taken from "The One to Sing the Blues" single

#"Eagle Rock" (Campbell, Burston, Kilmister, Taylor) – taken from "The One to Sing the Blues" single

Hellraiser: Deader

Amy pursues leads, ultimately tracking down Winter LeMarchand, (Paul Rhys) the leader of the cult.

The original script was written by Neal Marshall Stevens who also wrote the script for the 2001 remake of Thirteen Ghosts.

Hellraiser: Hellseeker

Trevor Gooden (Dean Winters) survives a car accident that apparently kills his wife Kirsty Cotton-Gooden (Ashley Laurence) when their car plunges off a bridge into the river below.

Hellraiser: Hellworld

Henriksen turned the offer down in favor of a starring role in the vampire thriller Near Dark (1987).

Nicholas Phillips

Nick Phillips (producer), American actor and producer, co-produced the 2005 film Hellraiser: Hellworld

Schecter C-1 Hellraiser

The Hellraiser is available in three different finishes: Black Cherry, White and Black.

The Scarlet Gospels

Originally it was intended to be the title of a selection of short stories, including a novella-sized story that would have been a sequel to his groundbreaking horror story, first told in a novella called The Hellbound Heart, and then in a highly successful feature film called Hellraiser.

Weaveworld

The attempt failed when he brought forth 'the Surgeons' (although it is never confirmed, it is heavily implied that these were the Cenobites from Barker's earlier work 'The Hellbound Heart' and its subsequent film adaptation 'Hellraiser')who proceeded to fillet him.


Bill Koeb

In addition to the series, Koeb painted the 18-page story "For My Son", written by Frank Lovece, for Clive Barker's Hellraiser Summer Special #1 (1992).

Christine Harnos

Harnos is known for portraying Jennifer, the first wife of main character Mark Greene on ER (1994–2002), Rimmer in the Action/Horror film Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996), Dotty from The Girl Gets Moe (1997) film, Sarah Hughes in Cold Dog Soup (1990) film, Linda Wyatt in Judgement Night (1993) film, Rhonda in Pink as the Day She Was Born (1997) film, and as Sid in Denial (1990) film.

Euroviisut 2007

Jani & Jetsetters, Katra, Jukka Kuoppamäki and Johanna Kurkela each performed two Finnish-language songs and one of Laura Voutilainen's two songs was sung in Finnish: the remaining fifteen songs were sung in English.

Female Cenobite

According to the NECA packaging for the Female Cenobite action figure, she was once a decadent nun named Sister Nikoletta, and while this does not specifically occur in the Hellraiser films, Barbie Wilde did write an origin story for the character in the Hellbound Hearts short story collection.

Florian Bertmer

He has worked on numerous limited edition movie posters for Alamo Drafthouse for such iconic films as the Holy Mountain, Hellboy, the Evil Dead,Night of the living dead, Santa Sangre, the Swamp Thing, Hellraiser and Cowboys and Aliens.

Frank Lovece

Lovece went on to write stories for Epic's anthology series Clive Barker's Hellraiser, and wrote the nine-issue run of Hokum & Hex for Marvel's Razorline imprint, created by novelist Barker.

Halloween 3D

Originally, Patrick Lussier and Todd Farmer were labeled as writers but dropped out due to their occupancy on the Hellraiser reboot.

Kirsty Cotton

Toying with the puzzle box, Kirsty solves and inadvertently summons the sadomasochistic demons known as the Cenobites and their leader, Pinhead (Doug Bradley).

Lock puzzle

Clive Barker's horror novella The Hellbound Heart (later adapted into a movie Hellraiser, followed by numerous original sequels) centered around Lemarchand's box which appears to be such a puzzle box but in fact opens the gates to another dimension when manipulated.

Marc Hempel

Hempel's art has also appeared in Marvel Fanfare, Epic Illustrated, Heavy Metal, Jonny Quest, Tarzan the Warrior, Clive Barker’s Hellraiser, Flinch, My Faith in Frankie, The Dreaming, Lucifer, and Disney Adventures.

Model figure

Screamin' focused primarily on characters from more contemporary slasher movies like A Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellraiser and franchises like Star Wars and Mars Attacks.

Monte Carlo Millions

With three players remaining, however, he was outdrawn by unheralded Finn Jani "Hellraiser" Sointula, who would go on to take the title and US$400,000 first prize after knocking out Ivey.

Stephen Thrower

With Coil, he worked on the (unreleased) soundtrack for Hellraiser by Clive Barker, and recorded the soundtrack to the Derek Jarman film, The Angelic Conversation, as well as making appearances in Jarman's films, Caravaggio, The Last of England and Imagining October.

The Scarlet Gospels

The story centers on two characters Barker has used in his previous work: private investigator Harry D'Amour, a character seen in several previous stories such as the novel Everville and the short story "The Last Illusion" (later adapted into the film Lord of Illusions); and a being known only as "Pinhead", an extra-dimensional entity residing in a world bordering our own.

Torg

Tharkold has been compared to something of a cross between the Terminator and Hellraiser movies.

Wolverine Blues

A limited number of early pressings of the album contained audio samples taken from films (most notably Flatliners and Hellraiser III) which were subsequently removed from later pressing due to record label fears of potential legal action over their unlicensed use.