Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival – a game so grotesque it scares its own director
With oversight from Clive Barker himself, and a role reprisal as Pinhead from actor Doug Bradley, Revival aims to introduce new audiences to the discomfort of Hellraiser If a horror game gives its own director a physical reaction, it’s probably doing something right.
While researching the images people find hardest to look at, game director Emil Esov discovered he has trypophobia – a fear of clusters of small holes.
Rather than tone the scary images down, he fed them straight into Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival.
The forthcoming first-person action-horror game drops players into a new story in Barker’s universe.
Aidan Lynch must use the Genesis Configuration puzzle box to rescue his girlfriend from the Labyrinth as Pinhead, his Cenobites and a cult close in.
But Revival is not built around jump scares.
The team at Mad Head Games began with one question: what should players feel? The answer was discomfort.
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