[fanofspooky]

“Oh, no tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering!”

[horrorpolls]

what's your favourite movie from the hellraiser franchise?

hellraiser (1987)

hellraiser II: hellbound (1988)

hellraiser III: hell on earth (1992)

hellraiser: bloodline (1996)

hellraiser: inferno (2000)

hellraiser: hellseeker (2002)

hellraiser: deader (2005)

hellraiser: hellworld (2005)

hellraiser: revelations (2011)

hellraiser: judgement (2018)

hellraiser (2022)

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Voting ended onMar 24, 2025

[cenobiteghoul]

The Terrifier series is the most cynical torture porn I've ever seen.

I know that's not the most radical take, it's obviously gory and gruesome in its kills. But more than that- it revels in punishing the victims, most of the people killed are shown to be despicable and cruel in their own right.

It's almost as if Art is supposed to be this force of enacting justice for their wickedness.

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Aside from the iconic clown costume and the miming performance itself, the character of Art reminds me of Krampus and, to a similar extent, Billy Chapman (Silent Night, Deadly Night). Art in Terrifier 3 specifically feels to me like the culmination of the punishing entity, he revels in not just the violence, but especially the exhibition of his disciplining.

It reminds me of Hellraiser: Judgement, where the cenobites are reinterpreted as hellish demons who's purpose is to torture sinners. They take on the role of giving the audience a catharsis of retribution through violence, shock, and vulgar sexuality. Divine judgement twisted into something that we can excuse as demonic behavior while still indulging in its sensual justice.

[whiskehorange]

Retired Characters

⟡﹒Mayor Buckman

⟡﹒Bishop & Ellen Ripley

⟡﹒Francis Dolarhyde

⟡﹒John (He's Out There)

⟡﹒The Auditor & The Chatterer

⟡﹒The Man (Hush)

⟡﹒Lizard (The Hills Have Eyes)

⟡﹒Lydia Deetz, Barbara & Adam Maitland

⟡﹒Amber Sweet, Blind Mag, Pavi Largo, Luigi Largo, Nathan & Shilo Wallace

⟡﹒Danny Torrance & Rose the Hat

⟡﹒Sidney Prescott

⟡﹒Graham Hess & Merrill Hess

⟡﹒Chop Top & Nubbins Sawyer

⟡﹒Nick Jakoby

⟡﹒Jiraiya

⟡﹒Wendy Carr, Holden Ford & Bill Tench

⟡﹒Arthur Fleck/Joker

⟡﹒Random Extra Removed Characters

[kugelfische]

judgement

[myfairgame]

[motsimages]

I watched the new Hellraiser movie. Overall it is entertaining and it has some well-thought things that I enjoyed. But there was something bothering me about the cenobites in this movie (even if Jayme's Pinhead is amazing, excellent acting work there) and I couldn't put my finger in it. So I looked the original cenobites and I found it.

They are sanitized.

All of the actors in general, cenobites or not, are young and thin and beautiful, even the cenobites. There is an older woman and I was rooting for her to be the main character but she is old and fat, we couldn't have that, could we?

Houses look like houses where people live, they dress like people like them dress, mind you. All that is well conceived. But the cenobites are clean and not gorey. And the three main cenobites are all young and hot women (come the fuck on with this, though).

They took out the BDSM leather style, that is fine by me. But it still feels like a latex suit at times (maybe that explains why it was so dark sometimes, so you wouldn't notice), because of how clean cut and polish it all looks. I am usually turned down by even the slightest gore, I didn't have to take my eyes out of screen more than a couple of times.

The original cenobites are not so young and definitely not clean. Link here for reference. They are bleeding, and some of the blood looks old but some looks recent, and the skin they show looks tired. Only Pinhead and another one may look dignified and have a white head, but it contrasts all the more with the rest of the look, with the open chest wounds that look like they are reopened daily. Even the leather they wear is dirty as if they just came out of a session.

They didn't really have that complicated wounds either. Chatterer is the one with the most worrying modification but all the others? They seem achievable. Someone who is into pain could confirm but I'm pretty sure you can get the wounds that Pinhead has in his chest with knives and needles alone. Some of the deformation they have also looks like the product of acid or burning water. In short, it looks like it's painful daily, but reachable and renewable, like what someone worryingly into BDSM would seek for feeling things.

And then, as for the cleanliness that this movie has: In Hellraiser Judgement we even see the spaces where they "live?" and it is like an empty old house so dirty and old that it just doesn't feel sanitary to have open wounds exposed there. The cenobites in there also look like they didn't shower in days. It is disgusting. Example:

Kudos for the acting and filmmaking in this one because they manage to scare and because Pinhead gives the right vibes on acting alone, but as it is for the design of the cenobites, I didn't love it because it is aesthetic before it is gorey. I didn't feel the pain of the wounds, I didn't feel tempted by that possibility either (and I am NOT a bdsm person, but the original cenobites did feel like an invitation). It just felt like punishment of sorts, not like something those people actually sought out themselves and even then, like something they eventually got used to, not like something is renewed daily because you enjoy it.

[some-film-guy]

“Hellraiser Judgement” (2018)

Directed By: Gary J. Tunniclife

Lionsgate Films

Poster:

The Auditor’s makeup originally began as a concept pitch for a new Pinhead look. The new look was thought up when the studio was deciding whether to make a full series reboot. When they decided to go with a direct sequel, the designs were kept and recycled into the Auditor by the makeup team.

Some gifs from @house-of-horrors