#hellraiser hulu

[stevebuscemieyes]

What a year for horror.

[demifiendrsa]

First images of Hellraiser (2022)

The 2022 film reboot of Hellraiser will stream on Hulu on October 7, 2022.

[cipheramnesia]

We re-watched Hellraiser 1+2 to get set to for the new one coming out in a couple weeks, then I got super hyped and decided to draw the new trans woman Pinhead.

[hearmeoutworthypoll]

Pinhead from Hulu’s Hellraiser (2022)

RECOUNT

It’s a reboot and the fourth on screen portrayal of the character, played by Jamie Clayton

Is Pinhead a “hear me out” or understandably attractive?

“Hear me out,” literally designed to be hellish. The pins and flesh are a lot

Attractive. More interesting than off putting. I want them to pin ME down

Voting ended onAug 8, 2024

[skelly-delly]

HIM HIM HIM HIM HE’S REAL HE’S HERE I’M YELLING

i brightened these up btw so he’s easier to see

[helenvaughans]

i suppose the concern i have about the new hellraiser film, provided that this synopsis is accurate: 

A “young woman struggling with addiction comes into possession of an ancient puzzle box, unaware that its purpose is to summon the Cenobites, a group of sadistic supernatural beings from another dimension.” (20th Century Studios)

is that to me, a key part of the hellraiser/cenobite lore is the idea of opening the lament configuration as a form of consent to whatever the cenobites decide to do to you afterwards. obviously few people who solve the puzzle box actually understand what exactly it is they are getting into (bc this is of course a horror franchise and fear of the unknown is a fundamental part of horror) but the point still stands that the person who opens the box carries some form of agency and responsibility for what comes after. 

the cenobites (at least in the earlier films) are not fundamentally malicious, but they just have a very outlandish (by human standards) idea of pleasure, and to me, their lack of malicious intent is codified in the rule that they will only come when called, and thus, by their own reckoning, provided consent.

this brings me back to the new hellraiser film. as someone who has personal experience with loved ones struggling with addiction, one thing you learn is that if someone is in the grip of addiction, they have an illness which is just as much of a mental illness as any other. and when they are in the grip of that addiction, they are not “themselves” so to speak as everything in life becomes subordinate to the one goal of getting the next fix. thus, as someone who also struggles with (a different sort of) mental illness, it’s not clear to me, when one is in that state of mind, to what degree one can actually “consent” to something, especially an experience as extreme as what the cenobites provide.

 hopefully, the film will be able to explore the intricacies of this issue in a nuanced way but.........i don’t know. hollywood does not have a good track record of dealing with these kinds of issues delicately....

[some-film-guy]

“Hellraiser” (2022)

Directed By: David Bruckner

Hulu, Disney Platform Distribution

Poster:

Now that this reboot has been released, all of the the main “Golden Age Slasher Icons” of the 70s-80s have had a reboot/remake. Leatherface in 2003, Michael Myers in 2007, Jason Voorhees in 2009, Freddy Krueger in 2010, Chucky in 2019 and now Pinhead in 2022. Out of all of these, Jaime Clayton’s Pinhead is the first slasher to be rebooted as/played by a woman.

[guttersnarls]

Hellraiser 2022 - Director: David Bruckner