“WOWPresents: Clips” is our EXCLUSIVE daily peek into the extensive library of WOW shows, interviews, and pop culture ephemera we’ve collected over the last three decades.
We are drawing closer to Halloween, so today we thought we’d bring you an interview with the actor who played “Pinhead” in Hellraiser (and it’s many sequels) from a 2004 episode of our VH1 show Super Secret Movie Rules: Slashers. In the clip below, the iconic Doug Bradley talks about Pinhead’s character, his makeup, costuming, the strange sexual response to his character, and inspiring men and women to adopt body piercing. (Would there have even BEEN a ’90s without Pinhead?)
Watch below.
Super Secret Movie Rules: The show that rips the secrets off of Hollywood’s movie genres (Vh1, 2004-05)
Ever notice how the victims in SLASHERS movies always run up the stairs instead of out the door to safety? How the stars of SUPERHERO movies always choose duty over booty? How the weepy characters in TEARJERKERS always tempt fate before their tragic deaths?
Coincidences? Not according to these brazen one-hour, package-driven episodes.
SUPERSECRET MOVIE RULES gives viewers a hilarious, insider’s look at the way Hollywood churns out films by following “super-secret” formulas that most viewers instinctively know but never consciously notice. In this homage to the sexy, surreal and sensational side of cinematic achievement, we’re here to remind you of everything the Academy wants you to forget.
Each of these ten shows takes viewers on a sizzling history of a particular genre, dissecting ten classic films from that genre according to its unspoken but very real rules.
Inter-cut with loads of classic film clips, stills and music from today’s hottest stars, SUPERSECRET MOVIE RULES grills the actors and filmmakers responsible for the genre’s best, worst and most memorable movie moments. And we enlist comedians, film critics, and pop-culture historians to put it all into perspective.
Packed with attitude, loaded with dish, SUPERSECRET MOVIE RULES proves that being bad is at least as much fun as being good.
Credits
Executive Producers: Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato
Supervising Producer: Gabriel Rotello
Producers: Jim Eckels, Patrick Friend, Eric Shepard, David Story, Melanie Switzer, Craig Tomashoff, & Douglas Ross West
Co-Producer: Natalie Aaron
