Moustapha Akkad
After the release of "", there were various ideas on how to proceed with a ninth installment. After the release of "Freddy vs. Jason" in 2003, Dimension Films attempted to produce a crossover with the "Hellraiser" franchise featuring Pinhead and the Cenobites. One of the pitches involved a young Michael Myers opening the Lament Configuration and being possessed with Samhain fleeing from Hell, providing the source of his murderousness and invincibility; the remainder of the film would have involved the Cenobites pursuing him. An earlier pitch from the late 90s from "The Hills Run Red" filmmaker Dave Parker was rejected by Dimension, as they believed "Freddy vs. Jason" would bomb at the box office. According to Doug Bradley, Clive Barker agreed to write a script while John Carpenter was being considered to direct. Bradley said that Barker "wasn’t interested in a mano-a-mano confrontation. He was interested in finding the places where the "Hellraiser" and "Halloween" landscapes might have crossed over" and that he envisioned Michael Myers as a "a sadomasochistic sexual pervert and serial killer which would be enough to pique Pinhead’s interest." The project was ultimately cancelled after 52 percent of respondents to an online poll disapproved of the project and Moustapha Akkad was not interested.