It's "a child's dream coming true," says Director Pascal Laugier, recalling the how the original Hellraiser shocked and inspired him as a 13-year-old boy. Now tapped to direct the Hellraiser remake, Laugier tells Ain't It Cool News that he would never betray Clive Barker's original conception and, noting that he has a much larger budget than the original, says, "It will be of course more epic, it will be bigger, and I hope that it won't be softer." Given his earlier work on the controversial French horror flick Martyrs, which one reviewer termed "the new yardstick against which all forms of extreme genre films should be measured against," a softer treatment seems rather unlikely.