Hellraiser: Judgment

With "Judgement" Dimension extinguishes nearly all hope that Hellraiser could come back from what has become of this once awesome series. But with the absence of Barker, Bradley, and any care from Dimension whatsoever, what were seeing is a production company abusing it's oldest franchise and running it into the ground. Somebody tell those idiots to remember their roots. The only saving grace is that it's not quite as epically shitty as the last one.

Shit: Sandwich

Opens up like the 120 Days of Hellraiser and it’s disgusting nonsense then becomes an I can be True Detective too procedural slog. The new Pinhead is GOOD but anything would be good compared to the fat Pinhead from the last one. I am Hellraisered out. “ Heaven ... raiser”

Being a Hellraiser stan is the saddest thing sometimes. It'd be cool if someone proposed a plot besides "Se7en, but then Pinhead shows up". Still better than the last two decades of Hellraiser movies.

Obvious budgetary constraints on this (especially Pinhead's makeup & it looks direct-to-video), but I can't hate this reboot attempt. I found it very watchable in fact. The actors are good, the new Cenobite design is great, the story's Seven-ish mystery compelling enough & there's more Pinhead worldbuilding. I can see fans not liking the idea of Hell "processing" souls, but what a process. This filmmaker clearly loves the original: this is a 3-in-a-room story & even outdoes its perversity & gore

Judgment continues the tired tradition of weak Hellraiser sequels, featuring yet another reinteration of a lame serial killer plot stolen shamelessly from Seven, and the blatant thievery doesn't stop there. The killer murders his victims according to the ten commandments and the crime scenes are dank and/or dark rain soaked environments. No shit! The new Pinhead is better than Collins, but he's no Bradley. The sense of stolen style works initially, but the twist is predictable and it ends badly.

Completely throws away the entire canon to just shrug and go *extremely Patton Oswalt voice* "Yep, they're just demons from Hell, that's it! Squickity-blammity-bloo! Hooks!"

This is an ugly movie. There's the piss filter over all the boring, uninspired torture scenes, and then the cop stuff which is shot and edited like the shittiest tv procedural with no budget. I want to say it doesn't feel like Hellraiser, and the themes of judgment and punishment and then bringing god into it don't make any sense for the Cenobites and what the story originally was; but at this point there are so many more shitty Hellraisers than good. I'd rather rewatch one of the Bota films

It's not the worst in the series, but that's not saying much. I'm sure it was made on a pretty tight budget, which will have to excuse the lack of any of the spectacle we'd seen in the first two movies, but it can't excuse the predictable and cliched serial killer plot, which makes the movie feel less like a movie, and more like a pilot episode of a proposed Hellraiser-themed police serial.

Yes it can. If you watch all the Hellraisers back to back it actually is a pathway to hell.

Why do all these movies have such bad camerawork and editing? The beginning of the film was interesting and gross but the rest of the film unfortunately was dull and lifeless. The story is just a mishmash of previous entries in the series.

Well, it's better than "Revelations," I will grant that. It's not phoned in like the previous Hellraiser film (I can't believe I also have to give credit for the film actually looking like it was filmed with a professional camera and not an iPhone like "Revelations"), but it's still so sloppy that it falls over itself trying to tell a bigger tale than I think they were ready for, and instead comes off as derivative and vastly disappointing.

Sorry, but it is one of my guilty pleasures. Terrible, but amazing. Love it.

Starts with cenobites complaining that internet porn has ruined their schtick, thus signalling that any bit of intelligence and subtlety has forsaken this franchise. Then we're treated to a 1990s Nine Inch Nails music video. Judgment then turns into a tolerable police procedural, but the tiny budget means there's little interstitial tissue to lend a sense of reality to anything that's happening, which makes all of the goings-on wash innocuously past viewers. Eh. This makes almost zero impact.

A lot better than the abomination that was the previous entry in the serious, this isn't exactly a good movie, but at least it tries, so credit where it's due.

Not as bad as people put it out to be and clearly not as bad as some of its own predecessors. This film was the first in a long string of films to approach originality and creativity. I mean…this Hellraiser film is the first to introduce the opposite of the Hell dimension (Heaven) and what that looks like in a world like this. That’s very cool. The narrative was a little all over the place…but somewhat interesting.

Not as blatantly bad as most of the franchise but a complete waste of the few good ideas this movie has.