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Hellraiser: Judgment

January 01, 1970

Hellraiser: Judgment is a 2018 American horror film written and directed by Gary J. Tunnicliffe, based on the characters created by Clive Barker. The tenth installment in the Hellraiser film series, the film stars Damon Carney, Randy Wayne, Alexandra Harris, Heather Langenkamp, and Paul T. Taylor, and centers on three police detectives who, investigating a series of murders, are confronted by the denizens of hell. The film expands the fictional universe by introducing a new faction of hell: the Stygian Inquisition. While the Cenobites offer sadomasochistic pleasures to humans that enter their dominion, the Inquisition processes the souls of sinners. Tunnicliffe plays the Inquisition's auditor, a prominent role in the film.

Hellraiser: Judgment
Home media release artwork
Directed byGary J. Tunnicliffe
Written byGary J. Tunnicliffe
Based onCharacters created
by Clive Barker
Produced byMichael Leahy
Starring
CinematographySamuel Calvin
Edited byMike Leahy
Michael Griffin[Note 1]
Music byDeron Johnson
Production
company
Distributed byLionsgate Home Entertainment
Release date
  • February 13, 2018 (2018-02-13)
Running time
81 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$350,000[Note 2]
Box office$426,290

Unable to direct his screenplay for Hellraiser: Revelations due to a scheduling conflict, Tunnicliffe initially removed all references to the series from his Judgment concept and tried to have it funded as an independent film in 2013. He intended on making a "true" Hellraiser film because of his disappointment with the later films. Several years later, Dimension Films was required to make another Hellraiser film to retain the rights, giving Tunnicliffe a chance to propose his vision. The concept was initially rejected but accepted after he negotiated changes with the studio executives. It was filmed in Oklahoma with Children of the Corn: Runaway, both films produced by Michael Leahy. It is the second Hellraiser film without Doug Bradley as Pinhead; newcomer Taylor was cast after impressing Tunnicliffe in an audition. He and Tunnicliffe decided to develop a new look and interpretation, rather than imitating Bradley's performance.

Judgment was scheduled for release in 2017 with minimal marketing to avoid negative publicity, but was temporarily shelved. According to Taylor, its release was not a priority for Dimension until the sexual abuse allegations involving parent company co-founder Harvey Weinstein (when the film was put back into post production). It was distributed by Lionsgate Films in video on demand and home media on February 13, 2018. Although critics compared the film favorably to its predecessors, its low budget and police procedural aspects were criticized.

Plot edit

In hell, Pinhead from the Cenobite sect, and the Auditor of the Stygian Inquisition are discussing how to adapt their methods of harvesting souls in the face of advancing human technology that is making the Configurations—gateways to hell—obsolete. Meanwhile on Earth, three detectives—brothers Sean and David Carter, and Christine Egerton—investigate a serial killer known as the Preceptor, whose murders are based on the Ten Commandments.

A connection with one of the victims leads the detectives to Karl Watkins, a local criminal who went missing near an abandoned house. Sean goes there and loses consciousness, waking up in the Stygian Inquisition's domain in hell. As the Inquisition prepares to hand down a verdict on Sean for his sins, the angel Jophiel intervenes and tells them to release him. Sean escapes the realm with a stolen puzzle box, and the Auditor requests Pinhead's guidance on the matter. Sean and his brother return to search the house, finding no trace of hell or the Inquisition. That night he is haunted by visions of the Cenobites and hell's denizens, who promise "judgment and redemption" to anyone who opens the box.

Sean and Christine go to the coroner's office and find that a cell phone of one of the Preceptor's victims was stored in her body, recording her final location with its GPS. They find the Preceptor's hideout, where Sean incapacitates Christine and reveals himself as the killer. David deduces the Preceptor's identity and meets with the coroner to find the building. Upon arrival, Sean disarms David and reveals that he is holding his wife Alison hostage, outraged that she had an affair. He forces David and Alison to open the box at gunpoint, summoning the Cenobites and opening a gateway to their realm.

Aware that someone from hell would come to collect his soul after his initial escape, Sean attempts to offer Alison and David to Pinhead. Pinhead tells him they will be dealt with for opening the box but, because a separate faction of hell wanted his soul, no deal will be made. The Auditor appears, telling Sean the Inquisition has found him guilty of his sins. Jophiel intervenes again and protests to Pinhead and the Auditor that Sean is part of heaven's plan to instill fear into sinners. Pinhead arranges for Christine to kill Sean, and spitefully dispatches Jophiel. As punishment, God expels Pinhead from hell and forces him to walk the earth as a mortal man. In a post-credits scene, a group of Mormon missionaries in Germany approach a house and are answered by The Auditor.

Cast and characters edit

See also: List of Hellraiser cast members and List of Hellraiser characters
  • Damon Carney as Detective Sean Carter / The Preceptor:[1]
    A police detective who investigates a string of murders and discovers an other-worldly threat. Unbeknownst to his colleagues, he murders people who violate the Ten Commandments.[1]
  • Randy Wayne as Detective David Carter:[1]
    Sean's partner during the investigation.[1] Wayne initially questioned some of Tunnicliffe's decisions; according to the director, defending a character to the actor was not a problem for him: "I think Randy wants to trust the Director and you have to earn that by showing respect for the process. Once that trust was established, Randy relaxed and found David".[2]
  • Alexandra Harris as Detective Christine Egerton:[1]
    A detective who assists Sean and David in the murder investigation.[1] Although Christine did not appear in the original story, the studio suggested her as a foil to Sean and David.[2]
  • Heather Langenkamp as the Landlady:[1]
    Langenkamp, known for her role as Nancy Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street,[3][4] plays an obscene, cigarette-smoking landlady in Judgment.[5] Casting director Chris Freihofer, who was acquainted with Langenkamp, showed her the screenplay before suggesting her to Tunnicliffe.[2] He was pleased that Langenkamp agreed to take part in the film, since she is regularly offered horror-film roles.[6]
  • Paul T. Taylor as Pinhead:[7]
    The leader of the Cenobites, a religious faction of mutilated humans in hell who belong to the Order of the Gash and offer those who solve the Lament Configuration sadomasochistic pleasures. His face is marked with cuts arranged in a grid, with nails inserted into the intersections of creased flesh. Taylor made his debut as the priest of hell, who was played by Doug Bradley in the first eight films and Stephen Smith Collins in Hellraiser: Revelations.[8] According to Taylor, in Pinhead's Judgment character arc events directly affect him (unlike the more recent sequels, with "him just showing up and doing his job").[9] Tunnicliffe was inspired by Hellbound: Hellraiser II in crafting Pinhead's fate in Judgment's climax: "I got to a point where I was writing the end of the film, and I thought, 'Well, he came from being immortal. We saw him birthed in Hellbound,' which I really loved, and I thought, 'If you're the king, then the very worst thing that can happen to you is you get stripped and thrown out with the paupers'". The filmmaker said that if he had had the budget, Pinhead would have been shown getting stripped of his pins and his clothing shredded.[10] He suggested an ending in which a naked, now-human Pinhead is found on a rainy night bleeding in a gutter by a policeman, with the grid still in his face.[11]
  • Gary J. Tunnicliffe[12] as the Auditor:[7]
    A clerk in hell who notes a person's sin before sending the person to the Assessor for judgment. The Auditor's typewriter paper is made of flesh and inked in blood; he often carries a music box that plays "Für Elise" as a comforting remnant of his human past. According to Tunnicliffe, the character is German. Not a Cenobite, he is part of the Stygian Inquisition separate from the Order of the Gash (one of hell's many orders). There are many auditors in the Inquisition; Tunnicliffe's character shares the faction with the Assessor, the Jury, the Butcher and the Surgeon. Other members (the Bone Collectors, the Seamstress, the Sentinels, the Order of Exudation, and the Effluviam) were planned for introduction but removed for budgetary reasons. The character was influenced by Sam Lowry from Brazil and Itzhak Stern from Schindler's List. The Stygian Inquisition lures their victims (candidates) to houses on earth that connect to hell, evaluating their sins and desires to decide their fate. Occasionally, its victims are deemed more suited to the Cenobites.[11][13][2][5] Time and budget contributed to Tunnicliffe playing the character, allowing him to come in before shooting to apply the make-up; prosthetics could be applied in advance, and a body double could be used as needed. He accepted acting advice from a number of sources (including Damon Carney), and Mike Leahy and script supervisor Pepper helped direct his on-screen scenes. Tunnicliffe said: "I've been acting for many years, I love the franchise and I wanted to play the character. I thought in the very worst-case scenario if I suck, then I can dub myself later!"[14]
  • John Gulager as the Assessor:[1]
    A gluttonous member of the Stygian Inquisition who processes pages given to him by the Auditor and passes the results to the Jury.[1] Although Tunnicliffe had never seen filmmaker John Gulager act, he knew that Gulager is an actor and wrote the Assessor for him.[2] Gulager previously directed the horror films Feast, Feast II: Sloppy Seconds, Feast III: The Happy Finish, and Piranha 3DD.[15][16]
  • Mike Jay Regan as the Chatterer:[1]
    A Cenobite and follower of the Order of the Gash with facial deformities and continuously-clicking teeth. Succeeding Nicholas Vince in the role, Regan played the Chatterer Torso in Hellraiser: Inferno and the Chatterer in Hellraiser: Hellseeker, Hellraiser: Deader, and Hellraiser: Hellworld.[17]

Grace Montie plays Crystal Lanning, a dog-loving socialite whose murder sets the plot into motion.[1][5] Rheagan Wallace plays Alison Carter, Sean's wife.[18][5] Diane Goldner plays a Cleaner, an aging nude woman and part of the Stygian Inquisition who forces her tongue on victims as penance. Tunnicliffe conceived the Cleaners as in their nineties (similar to the three Witches from Macbeth), saying his worst nightmare would be being chained to a bed with old women licking him clean.[19][1][5] Andi Powers plays one of the Jury, three nude women in their twenties with skinless faces who hand down verdicts from the Inquisition.[1][5] Other acting credits include Jeff Fenter as sinner Karl Watkins and Helena Grace Donald as the angel Jophiel.[1] Judgment is the first Hellraiser film to include heaven in its mythology. According to Tunnicliffe, he took influence from The Scarlet Gospels, stating "I am in no way religious, but if you are writing a story that acknowledges the existence of Hell, then you have to acknowledge the existence of Heaven. I'm a big fan of things like Constantine and Prophecy, so it was fun bringing those characters into it".[20]

Production edit

Development edit

Only took a mere 30 years to get from being a 19 yr old [sic] make up fx wannabe living in rural Staffordshire to finally getting to write and direct a Hellraiser movie (whilst creating make up effects for a whole bunch of them along the way).[2]

— Gary J. Tunnicliffe

Decades before the development of Hellraiser: Judgment, Dimension Films obtained the rights to the Hellraiser and Children of the Corn film series; Dimension's first films were Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth and Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice, shot back-to-back in North Carolina in 1991. Since then, the company has been required to produce films in both series to retain the rights.[21] Around the release of Hellraiser: Bloodline in 1996, Gary Tunnicliffe (who was involved with the special effects of Hellraiser III and Bloodline) pitched a Hellraiser story, Holy War, to Dimension executive Bob Weinstein; an opening scene, about a priest seeking a path to heaven through suffering, was storyboarded.[22] Tunnicliffe continued to provide special effects for the series' sequels through Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005), which all were released to direct-to-video after Bloodline, but was unhappy with the quality of the films. Nearing a later deadline to retain Hellraiser and Children of the Corn, Dimension Films offered him an opportunity to write and direct a Hellraiser sequel. Tunnicliffe wrote the screenplay for 2011's Hellraiser: Revelations, but could not direct it due to a scheduling conflict with Scream 4.[23]

Instead of being an original screenplay converted into a Hellraiser film, Tunnicliffe's idea for Judgment was intended as part of the series from its conception.[24] He removed its Hellraiser elements after trying to meet with Dimension, who were uninterested in making another Hellraiser film immediately after Revelations. Tunnicliffe showed Judgment to Mike Jay Regan, who enjoyed its premise and suggested the removal of Pinhead for a standalone project.[25] He then attempted to make it as an independent film, but failed to find financial backers, leading to an unsuccessful Kickstarter campaign in 2013.[26] Five years after being unable to direct Revelations, Dimension (facing another rights-retention deadline) offered Tunnicliffe the job of writing and directing another Hellraiser film.[25] Tunnicliffe pitched Hellraiser: Judgment to Dimension three times (being rejected each time), and wrote a script treatment for a more traditional Hellraiser film, Enter Darkness, to demonstrate that he could come up with other ideas. The treatment's plot involved psychiatric hospital interns studying patients with shared experiences of the Lament Configuration, while the head doctor collates them to meet the Cenobites himself.[25] The studio approved it, but Tunnicliffe insisted on making Judgment.[27] Dimension told him to write the script for Judgment with the proviso that if they disliked it, he would direct Enter Darkness without being paid. After reading it, they allowed Tunnicliffe to direct Judgment as part of the series after negotiating rewrites, notes, and suggested changes.[27][24] Saying that Judgment "will have moments unlike any other [film] you have ever seen", he was inspired by the works of Hieronymus Bosch, Francis Bacon, David Cronenberg, David Lynch, David Fincher, and Hellraiser creator Clive Barker.[2]

Original story edit

Tunnicliffe's original treatment began with a Christian missionary approaching a rundown house to spread the Gospel and being captured by the Auditor at the door. The film's next fifteen to twenty minutes would focus on the missionary's audit as he is processed (judged) by the Auditor, the Assessor, the Jury, the Surgeon, the Butcher, the Seamstress, and the Bone Collectors. Two days later, a police officer is captured by the Auditor when he searches for the missing missionary. Tunnicliffe wanted the scenes in hell to be more nightmarish than they were in the finished film. The Assessor chokes on the pages of the policeman's sins during the audit, leading the distraught Auditor to seek assistance from Pinhead. Pinhead gathers the Chatterer and the Female Cenobite to find out what went wrong. Flashbacks show several police investigations, misleading the audience into thinking the police officer is innocent. An angel confronts Pinhead, demanding the police officer's release. The officer leaves the house, returning to raid it with armed colleagues, but find it to be empty. Pinhead and the Auditor review the officer's sins, discover that he is not innocent, and confront the angel. The next day, the officer awakens to the Cenobites invading his home. The audience learns about his sins, and the next fifteen minutes of the film would involve the Cenobites capturing and tormenting him.[25]

Casting edit

"After all the preparation that had gone before, most of my real decisions about the character and how I wanted to play him were probably made in about twenty minutes right there ... I bathed in the sense of power and majesty that the make-up gave me. I felt a sense of beauty; a dark mangled, inscrutable beauty. This detached, ordered piece of mutilation or self-mutilation, so carefully and lovingly executed. The head had a sense of peace and stillness about it, quite at odds with the horror the image was presenting. And beneath it all, a sense of tremendous melancholy, a feeling of a creature fundamentally lost. A line from one of Clive's plays swam into my mind: 'I am in mourning for my humanity'. At this point there was no back story for the character, but I had discussed this with Clive and we had agreed that he had once been human. But whether this was yesterday, last week, last year, ten, a hundred, a thousand years ago, I didn't know. I didn't need to. Sufficient to have that idea lodged into my brain. A perpetual, unconscious grieving for the man he had once been, for a life and a face he couldn't even remember. And a frozen grief. I felt now that Pinhead existed in an emotional limbo where neither pain nor pleasure could touch him. A pretty good definition of Hell for me".

—Doug Bradley, on originating the Pinhead role[28]

Judgment was cast by a team led by casting director Chris Freihofer.[29][2] Gary Tunnicliffe wanted Doug Bradley to reprise his role as Pinhead, the lead Cenobite;[6] Bradley refused, criticizing Dimension Films for the quality of the Hellraiser sequels. Tunnicliffe pleaded with him, but Bradley again declined when he learned that he would have to sign a non-disclosure agreement to obtain the screenplay.[27] In an interview with Bloody-Disgusting, Bradley said he had not read the script and declined to comment on the film's quality, but he expressed chagrin that it was another rights-retention project.[30] Paul T. Taylor was cast as Pinhead, and Tunnicliffe played the Auditor. Mike Jay Regan reprised his role as the Chatterer, and Heather Langenkamp would play a character in the film.[1]

Taylor became involved when he received an email inviting him to screen test as the Auditor;[31] after the test, he was asked to audition as Pinhead.[32] The latter audition took place in Los Angeles, where Taylor thought he "nailed" his performance. Tunnicliffe allowed him to interpret the character, and he was given months to prepare before filming began. The preparation included smoking (unusual for Taylor), to give his voice a gravelly quality. He took late-night walks in high-crime neighborhoods near his home, which he described as "facing the fear".[33] He said of his performance: "I have a vulnerability in my acting no matter what I do. It's just there ... It's about the stillness. [Pinhead]'s already so terrifying that when he makes a move, it means something. He's very economical and when he speaks, he's so eloquent". Believing "Pinhead has to be British", the American actor used a British accent when in-character. For research, he visited a comic-book store to read Hellraiser comic books in which Pinhead appeared.[34] Tunnicliffe detailed his reasons for selecting Taylor, saying he was prepared and open to listening, but also wanting to give his own interpretation: "I wanted a slightly different Pinhead for this new tale, there's a stillness, a dry resolve to this new version, coldness, sarcasm. I wanted a Pinhead with a regal sense of arrogance and boredom and Paul delivered".[2]

Filming and editing edit

 
 
The filmmakers used color to distinguish the domains of hell inhabited by the Cenobites (top) and the Stygian Inquisition. The images show Pinhead and the Auditor, respectively.

Filming took place over a three-week period in Oklahoma, on a relatively small budget of $350,000.[35] Tunnicliffe and cinematographer Samuel Calvin prepared substantially beforehand to maximize shooting time, using a daily average of 30 to 35 complex camera and lighting set-ups. According to Tunnicliffe, all departments were enthusiastic about their work and a work day never exceeded thirteen hours. Filming locations included a derelict building, a bar, a luxury apartment building and penthouse suite, a church interior, a children's playground, alleys, and stages and sets built by the film's art department.[2] Some actors had to be persuaded to arrive at certain shoots, partially because of the film's budget. Tunnicliffe said about filming: "I'm a great believer in really using the time on set. You only get up to twelve to thirteen hours a day, maximum, and I don't like going over time and over budget. I like to have a strong plan going in and the way I do that is that I act out the entire script with my D.P. [director of photography], we act out everybody's roles in every scene. We pick our angles based on that". Local residents contributed to the shoot by suggesting specific locations, and a car dealership loaned a van for the film.[27] Taylor shot his scenes in an Oklahoma City studio, where a set for the "offices of hell" was built.[34] The film was shot at the same time and place as Children of the Corn: Runaway, also produced by Mike Leahy; Judgment actor John Gulager directed Runaway. According to Leahy, "blood has been flowing here in Oklahoma City. These are two horror films that are going to be seen by a core audience".[36][37] Another three weeks were devoted to editing, and the film's limited budget restricted the number of lengthy edits. This was followed by the implementation of color timing, sound, and music. The score was composed by Deron Johnson, who was influenced by Trent Reznor and the score of Seven. Although Tunnicliffe's original cut had cues from Christopher Young's orchestral soundtrack from Hellraiser and Hellbound, a more modern approach was adopted for budgetary reasons. The domains of hell inhabited by the Cenobites and the Stygian Inquisition were distinguished by color, with a blue palette used for the Cenobites' domain and a "piss" yellow applied to the Inquisition's.[38]

Some of the film's sexual content and violence was deemed too extreme by the studio, and was removed. Tunnicliffe said: "I don't think people could stomach my original version. The studio certainly couldn't. I could have easily made the film ten to fifteen minutes longer with a more intense cut, but it would probably be TOO much. In the end, wiser heads prevailed".[38] Among Judgment's deleted content were a longer scene of Karl Watkins being skinned to death by the Inquisition's surgeon,[39] and scenes involving the Cleaners. The original version of the sex scene between Sean and Alison Carter was more intense, with the camera cutting back and forth between Sean's view of his wife and visions of the Cenobites. Several false endings were conceived for the scene, including Sean's hallucination of Alison fellating him when he looks up after his orgasm to see David Carter smiling back at him. The nightmare scene in which Sean enters an alley and sees flashes of hell was originally longer and more graphic; at one point, he stumbles across Alison as part of a threesome behind a dumpster with two strange men in pig masks. Tunnicliffe wanted to use surreal imagery to convey that "Sean's world was being torn apart, undone by his experiences at the house within the hellish dimension".[40] In Judgment's original concept pitch, the Jury eats the Assessor's regurgitated pages (not sifting through them) before handing down its verdict on the Stygian Inquisition's captives.[25]

Special effects edit

 
Pinhead's chaotic facial cuts from Gary J. Tunnicliffe's design for the cancelled Hellraiser reboot were repurposed for the Auditor.

The makeup-effects team was led by Mike Regan and Mike Measimer.[2] Taylor's portrayal of Pinhead was intended to be leaner and more serious than previous incarnations, lacking the earlier films' glib one-liners. This was incorporated into the makeup and costume design, with longer silver pins, deeper blade-slice cuts, solid black eyes and a more-visceral, sleeker wardrobe. The character's original attire was replaced with a ragged robe and butcher's skirt made of chain mail. His many tools and weapons were replaced by a streamlined skinning utensil.[2][24][38] Some grid-like cuts were rearranged from his previous design, with one square removed from each side of his jaw and one added to the back of his head.[38] The flesh exposed on his chest was made a rhombus in honor of Leviathan, the god worshiped by the Cenobites;[2] a homage to the Eye of Agamotto symbolism from Doctor Strange lore was integrated into the costume.[41] The Lament Configuration was also altered, built with bleached wood and copper etching.[38] The self-inflicted lacerations on the Auditor's face were intended to be less patterned and more chaotic than that of the more-ordered Cenobites. The facial cuts' positions were borrowed from an unsolicited redesign for Pinhead created by Tunnicliffe for Pascal Laugier's cancelled Hellraiser remake. A blood-stained shirt and threadbare two-piece suit cover the cuts on the Auditor's body. Religious symbols, implicitly torn from the necks of the guilty, are on the bracelet of his right wrist.[13][41] His black spectacles convey the impression of soulless eyes.[25]

Tunnicliffe had to balance directing the film and overseeing the effects work. About the quality of the blood effects, he said: "I don't think it's so much the quantity of blood but more the nature of the effects, the content and the context. I think some of our blood gags are actually quite beautiful; when you see blood raining down on a naked girl with a skinned face at 300 frames per second you can't help but be mesmerized by the fluid dynamics".[24] Taylor compared the simulated gore to that of the Saw series: "I think people are going to be fascinated with it and the things that are, what I would say, on the border of horror porn, there's some elements of that in it and that will please many Hellraiser fans and fans of just what contemporary horror can be these days where it's just a gross-out".[42] He later clarified: "I think [the gore in the film] is done because of the style and aesthetics in a beautiful way. This is not masturbation, and let's just throw blood at the screen".[32]

Tunnicliffe sent pictures to the wardrobe department of what he wanted the characters to wear, and the department measured the actors. Costumes designed and built for the Cenobites were handled by Tunnicliffe's department.[27] He chose to have certain characters nude because he thought it would look visually more interesting than designing cheap costumes.[43] The costume department used a cast of Taylor's head to design a pin mask for him to wear as Pinhead, which covered his entire head except for his ears. Although he found the costume and makeup extremely uncomfortable, he integrated the discomfort into his performance as the sadomasochist.[34] When he saw his reflection in the mirror in the Pinhead makeup, he said he instantly fell into the character's mindset. Taylor thought the makeup menacing enough that he had a minimalist approach to his performance, feeling that attempting to be conventionally frightening would be overacting.[42][44]

Release and marketing edit

Hellraiser: Judgment was initially scheduled for a 2017 release. In his interview with Dread Central, Tunnicliffe stated that marketing would be kept to a minimum, aside from the promotional images and casting news that had been released: "It seems to me that any images or fodder given out in good faith are kinda twisted around – usually to the negative – so the best response really is the film itself".[45] Harvey Weinstein is said to be too embarrassed in promoting Judgment, thus credited to delaying the film's release.[46]

Taylor gave a possible explanation in October for the delay, saying the film may not have finished post-production: "I have a reliable source who just informed me that Hellraiser: Judgment has been on a shelf for a while, unfinished. But now that Harvey Weinstein is out of the picture, Hellraiser: Judgment has been taken off that shelf and is back in post-production".[47] Taylor expanded on his reasoning in a later interview, stating the film might not have been released if not for the sexual abuse allegations against Weinstein, which financially compromised the studio.[33]

The film's trailer and release date were released on January 9, 2018. After nearly two years of silence from Dimension Films, Lionsgate Films picked up the distribution rights for Hellraiser: Judgment and Children of the Corn: Runaway; the former was released on digital and home media platforms on February 13.[48][18][36][49] In the United States and Canada, the film made a total of US$426,290 in home media sales: US$83,599 on DVD and US$343,029 on Blu-ray.[50][51]

Critical response edit

The film was favorably compared to the franchise's earlier sequels,[52][53][54] with Brad Miska of Bloody Disgusting calling it "the most authentic Hellraiser since Bloodline."[55] Collider's Haleigh Foutch praised its attempt to expand the Hellraiser universe, but found the execution sloppy due to a low budget and "pedestrian" human drama.[52] Forbes critic Luke Y. Thompson wrote that it integrated the Earth and Hell scenes more effectively than previous sequels and praised the additional mythology as "the best attempt since the early, more [Clive] Barker-infused theatrical films to deliver a coherent cosmology." However, he criticized the suggested retail price of the release, recommending it only for Hellraiser fans.[53] Although Miska found Judgment "sluggish", he noted the narrative served its purpose as a lead-in to the finale: "Everything comes full circle in the final moments, adding an entirely new dimension to the Hellraiser franchise," yet the film is "solely for Hellraiser apologists."[55]

Some critics deemed it the worst of the franchise, with The Irish Times' Tara Brady becoming pessimistic over the franchise's future, and Scott Weinberg of Thrillist giving up on it entirely, also noting that its reputation has decayed anyway, leaving Judgment with few potential buyers.[56][46] Critical reviews mainly decried bland acting [56] and storyline. Birth.Movies.Death's Scott Wampler was also disappointed by the lack of screentime for Pinhead, though he anticipated a future Tunnicliffe film "with a decent budget, or less meddling from the rights holders."[57] Andrew Gaudion of FilmHounds additionally called it a boring copy of the 1995 thriller Seven and "half baked when it comes to constructing its central gimmick." He, and We Got This Covered's Matt Donato, found the police procedural elements generic and cliched, with the latter opining that the gore and Hell elements are inadequate; he called the film "one of the least realized, most throwaway" of the series.[58][59]

The film's special effects and surreal imagery received mixed reviews: Foutch and Gaudion enjoyed them,[52] while The Guardian's Felperin calling the effects fake looking, though praised the production design;[56] the imagery was criticized by Weinberg.[60] Although IGN's William Bibbiani called the pacing "brisk," he deemed the story a faded carbon copy of other, better serial killer thrillers, and felt the new additions to the Hellraiser mythology rob the Cenobites of their deviant allure and otherworldly menace.[54] Wampler criticized the acting, story, and lack of screentime for Pinhead, calling the film a "mixed bag with the stuff I enjoyed ultimately outweighed by the stuff I did not."[57] Steve Barton of Dread Central disagreed, stating that the acting and story are surprisingly good: "Pinhead is omnipresent, and Taylor delivers a worthy performance and is every bit as majestic as you'd hope he'd be."[12]

Future edit

Judgment expands on lore introduced in the earliest films, with Taylor calling it a jumping-off point for a sequel that tells a "true" Hellraiser script with an ambiguous ending. He said the characters in the film could be used in future installments and expressed an interest in returning as Pinhead,[42] but stated he would also be content with a bigger-budgeted reboot starring Doug Bradley.[44] Tunnicliffe had no particular idea for a sequel, spin-off, or follow-up of any kind when developing the film, but has since suggested a scenario where the Auditor helps Pinhead reclaim his status to overthrow an incompetent successor; a "battle of the Hell priests".[10]

In May 2019, Spyglass Media Group began to develop a reboot of the series, with David S. Goyer serving as a writer and producer alongside Gary Barber, who described the project as an "evolved" reimagining of the original film.[61] In April 2020, writing team Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski came on to write, with David Bruckner attached to direct.[62] The film, Hellraiser, released in October 2022 on Hulu, with Jamie Clayton taking over the role of Pinhead.[63]

In April 2020, HBO finalized a deal with David Gordon Green to direct a Hellraiser television series, penned by Mark Verheiden and Michael Dougherty.[64] The rights to the Stygian Inquisition remain with Tunnicliffe, who has expressed an interest in doing a novel or short story involving the Auditor or the Order of the Effluvium.[65]

Bradley is open to returning to the Pinhead role, but only with the "right place, right time, right motives, right script ... Since I turned down both movies, I knew other actors would get to play the part. I don't know about 'taking over': enjoying temporary ownership, maybe". He was interested in starring in a film version of the Hellraiser novel The Scarlet Gospels, but is unaware of any plans for such a film.[66]

Notes edit

  1. ^ Credited in the official billing of the home media release.
  2. ^ As stated by writer/director Gary J. Tunnicliffe. No source from Dimension Films is listed confirming an estimated budget.

References edit

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hellraiser, judgment, 2018, american, horror, film, written, directed, gary, tunnicliffe, based, characters, created, clive, barker, tenth, installment, hellraiser, film, series, film, stars, damon, carney, randy, wayne, alexandra, harris, heather, langenkamp,. Hellraiser Judgment is a 2018 American horror film written and directed by Gary J Tunnicliffe based on the characters created by Clive Barker The tenth installment in the Hellraiser film series the film stars Damon Carney Randy Wayne Alexandra Harris Heather Langenkamp and Paul T Taylor and centers on three police detectives who investigating a series of murders are confronted by the denizens of hell The film expands the fictional universe by introducing a new faction of hell the Stygian Inquisition While the Cenobites offer sadomasochistic pleasures to humans that enter their dominion the Inquisition processes the souls of sinners Tunnicliffe plays the Inquisition s auditor a prominent role in the film Hellraiser JudgmentHome media release artworkDirected byGary J TunnicliffeWritten byGary J TunnicliffeBased onCharacters createdby Clive BarkerProduced byMichael LeahyStarringDamon Carney Randy Wayne Alexandra Harris Heather Langenkamp Paul T TaylorCinematographySamuel CalvinEdited byMike LeahyMichael Griffin Note 1 Music byDeron JohnsonProductioncompanyDimension FilmsDistributed byLionsgate Home EntertainmentRelease dateFebruary 13 2018 2018 02 13 Running time81 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget 350 000 Note 2 Box office 426 290 Unable to direct his screenplay for Hellraiser Revelations due to a scheduling conflict Tunnicliffe initially removed all references to the series from his Judgment concept and tried to have it funded as an independent film in 2013 He intended on making a true Hellraiser film because of his disappointment with the later films Several years later Dimension Films was required to make another Hellraiser film to retain the rights giving Tunnicliffe a chance to propose his vision The concept was initially rejected but accepted after he negotiated changes with the studio executives It was filmed in Oklahoma with Children of the Corn Runaway both films produced by Michael Leahy It is the second Hellraiser film without Doug Bradley as Pinhead newcomer Taylor was cast after impressing Tunnicliffe in an audition He and Tunnicliffe decided to develop a new look and interpretation rather than imitating Bradley s performance Judgment was scheduled for release in 2017 with minimal marketing to avoid negative publicity but was temporarily shelved According to Taylor its release was not a priority for Dimension until the sexual abuse allegations involving parent company co founder Harvey Weinstein when the film was put back into post production It was distributed by Lionsgate Films in video on demand and home media on February 13 2018 Although critics compared the film favorably to its predecessors its low budget and police procedural aspects were criticized Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast and characters 3 Production 3 1 Development 3 1 1 Original story 3 2 Casting 3 3 Filming and editing 3 4 Special effects 4 Release and marketing 5 Critical response 6 Future 7 Notes 8 References 9 External linksPlot editIn hell Pinhead from the Cenobite sect and the Auditor of the Stygian Inquisition are discussing how to adapt their methods of harvesting souls in the face of advancing human technology that is making the Configurations gateways to hell obsolete Meanwhile on Earth three detectives brothers Sean and David Carter and Christine Egerton investigate a serial killer known as the Preceptor whose murders are based on the Ten Commandments A connection with one of the victims leads the detectives to Karl Watkins a local criminal who went missing near an abandoned house Sean goes there and loses consciousness waking up in the Stygian Inquisition s domain in hell As the Inquisition prepares to hand down a verdict on Sean for his sins the angel Jophiel intervenes and tells them to release him Sean escapes the realm with a stolen puzzle box and the Auditor requests Pinhead s guidance on the matter Sean and his brother return to search the house finding no trace of hell or the Inquisition That night he is haunted by visions of the Cenobites and hell s denizens who promise judgment and redemption to anyone who opens the box Sean and Christine go to the coroner s office and find that a cell phone of one of the Preceptor s victims was stored in her body recording her final location with its GPS They find the Preceptor s hideout where Sean incapacitates Christine and reveals himself as the killer David deduces the Preceptor s identity and meets with the coroner to find the building Upon arrival Sean disarms David and reveals that he is holding his wife Alison hostage outraged that she had an affair He forces David and Alison to open the box at gunpoint summoning the Cenobites and opening a gateway to their realm Aware that someone from hell would come to collect his soul after his initial escape Sean attempts to offer Alison and David to Pinhead Pinhead tells him they will be dealt with for opening the box but because a separate faction of hell wanted his soul no deal will be made The Auditor appears telling Sean the Inquisition has found him guilty of his sins Jophiel intervenes again and protests to Pinhead and the Auditor that Sean is part of heaven s plan to instill fear into sinners Pinhead arranges for Christine to kill Sean and spitefully dispatches Jophiel As punishment God expels Pinhead from hell and forces him to walk the earth as a mortal man In a post credits scene a group of Mormon missionaries in Germany approach a house and are answered by The Auditor Cast and characters editSee also List of Hellraiser cast members and List of Hellraiser characters Damon Carney as Detective Sean Carter The Preceptor 1 A police detective who investigates a string of murders and discovers an other worldly threat Unbeknownst to his colleagues he murders people who violate the Ten Commandments 1 Randy Wayne as Detective David Carter 1 Sean s partner during the investigation 1 Wayne initially questioned some of Tunnicliffe s decisions according to the director defending a character to the actor was not a problem for him I think Randy wants to trust the Director and you have to earn that by showing respect for the process Once that trust was established Randy relaxed and found David 2 Alexandra Harris as Detective Christine Egerton 1 A detective who assists Sean and David in the murder investigation 1 Although Christine did not appear in the original story the studio suggested her as a foil to Sean and David 2 Heather Langenkamp as the Landlady 1 Langenkamp known for her role as Nancy Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 4 plays an obscene cigarette smoking landlady in Judgment 5 Casting director Chris Freihofer who was acquainted with Langenkamp showed her the screenplay before suggesting her to Tunnicliffe 2 He was pleased that Langenkamp agreed to take part in the film since she is regularly offered horror film roles 6 Paul T Taylor as Pinhead 7 The leader of the Cenobites a religious faction of mutilated humans in hell who belong to the Order of the Gash and offer those who solve the Lament Configuration sadomasochistic pleasures His face is marked with cuts arranged in a grid with nails inserted into the intersections of creased flesh Taylor made his debut as the priest of hell who was played by Doug Bradley in the first eight films and Stephen Smith Collins in Hellraiser Revelations 8 According to Taylor in Pinhead s Judgment character arc events directly affect him unlike the more recent sequels with him just showing up and doing his job 9 Tunnicliffe was inspired by Hellbound Hellraiser II in crafting Pinhead s fate in Judgment s climax I got to a point where I was writing the end of the film and I thought Well he came from being immortal We saw him birthed in Hellbound which I really loved and I thought If you re the king then the very worst thing that can happen to you is you get stripped and thrown out with the paupers The filmmaker said that if he had had the budget Pinhead would have been shown getting stripped of his pins and his clothing shredded 10 He suggested an ending in which a naked now human Pinhead is found on a rainy night bleeding in a gutter by a policeman with the grid still in his face 11 Gary J Tunnicliffe 12 as the Auditor 7 A clerk in hell who notes a person s sin before sending the person to the Assessor for judgment The Auditor s typewriter paper is made of flesh and inked in blood he often carries a music box that plays Fur Elise as a comforting remnant of his human past According to Tunnicliffe the character is German Not a Cenobite he is part of the Stygian Inquisition separate from the Order of the Gash one of hell s many orders There are many auditors in the Inquisition Tunnicliffe s character shares the faction with the Assessor the Jury the Butcher and the Surgeon Other members the Bone Collectors the Seamstress the Sentinels the Order of Exudation and the Effluviam were planned for introduction but removed for budgetary reasons The character was influenced by Sam Lowry from Brazil and Itzhak Stern from Schindler s List The Stygian Inquisition lures their victims candidates to houses on earth that connect to hell evaluating their sins and desires to decide their fate Occasionally its victims are deemed more suited to the Cenobites 11 13 2 5 Time and budget contributed to Tunnicliffe playing the character allowing him to come in before shooting to apply the make up prosthetics could be applied in advance and a body double could be used as needed He accepted acting advice from a number of sources including Damon Carney and Mike Leahy and script supervisor Pepper helped direct his on screen scenes Tunnicliffe said I ve been acting for many years I love the franchise and I wanted to play the character I thought in the very worst case scenario if I suck then I can dub myself later 14 John Gulager as the Assessor 1 A gluttonous member of the Stygian Inquisition who processes pages given to him by the Auditor and passes the results to the Jury 1 Although Tunnicliffe had never seen filmmaker John Gulager act he knew that Gulager is an actor and wrote the Assessor for him 2 Gulager previously directed the horror films Feast Feast II Sloppy Seconds Feast III The Happy Finish and Piranha 3DD 15 16 Mike Jay Regan as the Chatterer 1 A Cenobite and follower of the Order of the Gash with facial deformities and continuously clicking teeth Succeeding Nicholas Vince in the role Regan played the Chatterer Torso in Hellraiser Inferno and the Chatterer in Hellraiser Hellseeker Hellraiser Deader and Hellraiser Hellworld 17 Grace Montie plays Crystal Lanning a dog loving socialite whose murder sets the plot into motion 1 5 Rheagan Wallace plays Alison Carter Sean s wife 18 5 Diane Goldner plays a Cleaner an aging nude woman and part of the Stygian Inquisition who forces her tongue on victims as penance Tunnicliffe conceived the Cleaners as in their nineties similar to the three Witches from Macbeth saying his worst nightmare would be being chained to a bed with old women licking him clean 19 1 5 Andi Powers plays one of the Jury three nude women in their twenties with skinless faces who hand down verdicts from the Inquisition 1 5 Other acting credits include Jeff Fenter as sinner Karl Watkins and Helena Grace Donald as the angel Jophiel 1 Judgment is the first Hellraiser film to include heaven in its mythology According to Tunnicliffe he took influence from The Scarlet Gospels stating I am in no way religious but if you are writing a story that acknowledges the existence of Hell then you have to acknowledge the existence of Heaven I m a big fan of things like Constantine and Prophecy so it was fun bringing those characters into it 20 Production editDevelopment edit Only took a mere 30 years to get from being a 19 yr old sic make up fx wannabe living in rural Staffordshire to finally getting to write and direct a Hellraiser movie whilst creating make up effects for a whole bunch of them along the way 2 Gary J Tunnicliffe Decades before the development of Hellraiser Judgment Dimension Films obtained the rights to the Hellraiser and Children of the Corn film series Dimension s first films were Hellraiser III Hell on Earth and Children of the Corn II The Final Sacrifice shot back to back in North Carolina in 1991 Since then the company has been required to produce films in both series to retain the rights 21 Around the release of Hellraiser Bloodline in 1996 Gary Tunnicliffe who was involved with the special effects of Hellraiser III and Bloodline pitched a Hellraiser story Holy War to Dimension executive Bob Weinstein an opening scene about a priest seeking a path to heaven through suffering was storyboarded 22 Tunnicliffe continued to provide special effects for the series sequels through Hellraiser Hellworld 2005 which all were released to direct to video after Bloodline but was unhappy with the quality of the films Nearing a later deadline to retain Hellraiser and Children of the Corn Dimension Films offered him an opportunity to write and direct a Hellraiser sequel Tunnicliffe wrote the screenplay for 2011 s Hellraiser Revelations but could not direct it due to a scheduling conflict with Scream 4 23 Instead of being an original screenplay converted into a Hellraiser film Tunnicliffe s idea for Judgment was intended as part of the series from its conception 24 He removed its Hellraiser elements after trying to meet with Dimension who were uninterested in making another Hellraiser film immediately after Revelations Tunnicliffe showed Judgment to Mike Jay Regan who enjoyed its premise and suggested the removal of Pinhead for a standalone project 25 He then attempted to make it as an independent film but failed to find financial backers leading to an unsuccessful Kickstarter campaign in 2013 26 Five years after being unable to direct Revelations Dimension facing another rights retention deadline offered Tunnicliffe the job of writing and directing another Hellraiser film 25 Tunnicliffe pitched Hellraiser Judgment to Dimension three times being rejected each time and wrote a script treatment for a more traditional Hellraiser film Enter Darkness to demonstrate that he could come up with other ideas The treatment s plot involved psychiatric hospital interns studying patients with shared experiences of the Lament Configuration while the head doctor collates them to meet the Cenobites himself 25 The studio approved it but Tunnicliffe insisted on making Judgment 27 Dimension told him to write the script for Judgment with the proviso that if they disliked it he would direct Enter Darkness without being paid After reading it they allowed Tunnicliffe to direct Judgment as part of the series after negotiating rewrites notes and suggested changes 27 24 Saying that Judgment will have moments unlike any other film you have ever seen he was inspired by the works of Hieronymus Bosch Francis Bacon David Cronenberg David Lynch David Fincher and Hellraiser creator Clive Barker 2 Original story edit Tunnicliffe s original treatment began with a Christian missionary approaching a rundown house to spread the Gospel and being captured by the Auditor at the door The film s next fifteen to twenty minutes would focus on the missionary s audit as he is processed judged by the Auditor the Assessor the Jury the Surgeon the Butcher the Seamstress and the Bone Collectors Two days later a police officer is captured by the Auditor when he searches for the missing missionary Tunnicliffe wanted the scenes in hell to be more nightmarish than they were in the finished film The Assessor chokes on the pages of the policeman s sins during the audit leading the distraught Auditor to seek assistance from Pinhead Pinhead gathers the Chatterer and the Female Cenobite to find out what went wrong Flashbacks show several police investigations misleading the audience into thinking the police officer is innocent An angel confronts Pinhead demanding the police officer s release The officer leaves the house returning to raid it with armed colleagues but find it to be empty Pinhead and the Auditor review the officer s sins discover that he is not innocent and confront the angel The next day the officer awakens to the Cenobites invading his home The audience learns about his sins and the next fifteen minutes of the film would involve the Cenobites capturing and tormenting him 25 Casting edit After all the preparation that had gone before most of my real decisions about the character and how I wanted to play him were probably made in about twenty minutes right there I bathed in the sense of power and majesty that the make up gave me I felt a sense of beauty a dark mangled inscrutable beauty This detached ordered piece of mutilation or self mutilation so carefully and lovingly executed The head had a sense of peace and stillness about it quite at odds with the horror the image was presenting And beneath it all a sense of tremendous melancholy a feeling of a creature fundamentally lost A line from one of Clive s plays swam into my mind I am in mourning for my humanity At this point there was no back story for the character but I had discussed this with Clive and we had agreed that he had once been human But whether this was yesterday last week last year ten a hundred a thousand years ago I didn t know I didn t need to Sufficient to have that idea lodged into my brain A perpetual unconscious grieving for the man he had once been for a life and a face he couldn t even remember And a frozen grief I felt now that Pinhead existed in an emotional limbo where neither pain nor pleasure could touch him A pretty good definition of Hell for me Doug Bradley on originating the Pinhead role 28 Judgment was cast by a team led by casting director Chris Freihofer 29 2 Gary Tunnicliffe wanted Doug Bradley to reprise his role as Pinhead the lead Cenobite 6 Bradley refused criticizing Dimension Films for the quality of the Hellraiser sequels Tunnicliffe pleaded with him but Bradley again declined when he learned that he would have to sign a non disclosure agreement to obtain the screenplay 27 In an interview with Bloody Disgusting Bradley said he had not read the script and declined to comment on the film s quality but he expressed chagrin that it was another rights retention project 30 Paul T Taylor was cast as Pinhead and Tunnicliffe played the Auditor Mike Jay Regan reprised his role as the Chatterer and Heather Langenkamp would play a character in the film 1 Taylor became involved when he received an email inviting him to screen test as the Auditor 31 after the test he was asked to audition as Pinhead 32 The latter audition took place in Los Angeles where Taylor thought he nailed his performance Tunnicliffe allowed him to interpret the character and he was given months to prepare before filming began The preparation included smoking unusual for Taylor to give his voice a gravelly quality He took late night walks in high crime neighborhoods near his home which he described as facing the fear 33 He said of his performance I have a vulnerability in my acting no matter what I do It s just there It s about the stillness Pinhead s already so terrifying that when he makes a move it means something He s very economical and when he speaks he s so eloquent Believing Pinhead has to be British the American actor used a British accent when in character For research he visited a comic book store to read Hellraiser comic books in which Pinhead appeared 34 Tunnicliffe detailed his reasons for selecting Taylor saying he was prepared and open to listening but also wanting to give his own interpretation I wanted a slightly different Pinhead for this new tale there s a stillness a dry resolve to this new version coldness sarcasm I wanted a Pinhead with a regal sense of arrogance and boredom and Paul delivered 2 Filming and editing edit nbsp nbsp The filmmakers used color to distinguish the domains of hell inhabited by the Cenobites top and the Stygian Inquisition The images show Pinhead and the Auditor respectively Filming took place over a three week period in Oklahoma on a relatively small budget of 350 000 35 Tunnicliffe and cinematographer Samuel Calvin prepared substantially beforehand to maximize shooting time using a daily average of 30 to 35 complex camera and lighting set ups According to Tunnicliffe all departments were enthusiastic about their work and a work day never exceeded thirteen hours Filming locations included a derelict building a bar a luxury apartment building and penthouse suite a church interior a children s playground alleys and stages and sets built by the film s art department 2 Some actors had to be persuaded to arrive at certain shoots partially because of the film s budget Tunnicliffe said about filming I m a great believer in really using the time on set You only get up to twelve to thirteen hours a day maximum and I don t like going over time and over budget I like to have a strong plan going in and the way I do that is that I act out the entire script with my D P director of photography we act out everybody s roles in every scene We pick our angles based on that Local residents contributed to the shoot by suggesting specific locations and a car dealership loaned a van for the film 27 Taylor shot his scenes in an Oklahoma City studio where a set for the offices of hell was built 34 The film was shot at the same time and place as Children of the Corn Runaway also produced by Mike Leahy Judgment actor John Gulager directed Runaway According to Leahy blood has been flowing here in Oklahoma City These are two horror films that are going to be seen by a core audience 36 37 Another three weeks were devoted to editing and the film s limited budget restricted the number of lengthy edits This was followed by the implementation of color timing sound and music The score was composed by Deron Johnson who was influenced by Trent Reznor and the score of Seven Although Tunnicliffe s original cut had cues from Christopher Young s orchestral soundtrack from Hellraiser and Hellbound a more modern approach was adopted for budgetary reasons The domains of hell inhabited by the Cenobites and the Stygian Inquisition were distinguished by color with a blue palette used for the Cenobites domain and a piss yellow applied to the Inquisition s 38 Some of the film s sexual content and violence was deemed too extreme by the studio and was removed Tunnicliffe said I don t think people could stomach my original version The studio certainly couldn t I could have easily made the film ten to fifteen minutes longer with a more intense cut but it would probably be TOO much In the end wiser heads prevailed 38 Among Judgment s deleted content were a longer scene of Karl Watkins being skinned to death by the Inquisition s surgeon 39 and scenes involving the Cleaners The original version of the sex scene between Sean and Alison Carter was more intense with the camera cutting back and forth between Sean s view of his wife and visions of the Cenobites Several false endings were conceived for the scene including Sean s hallucination of Alison fellating him when he looks up after his orgasm to see David Carter smiling back at him The nightmare scene in which Sean enters an alley and sees flashes of hell was originally longer and more graphic at one point he stumbles across Alison as part of a threesome behind a dumpster with two strange men in pig masks Tunnicliffe wanted to use surreal imagery to convey that Sean s world was being torn apart undone by his experiences at the house within the hellish dimension 40 In Judgment s original concept pitch the Jury eats the Assessor s regurgitated pages not sifting through them before handing down its verdict on the Stygian Inquisition s captives 25 Special effects edit nbsp Pinhead s chaotic facial cuts from Gary J Tunnicliffe s design for the cancelled Hellraiser reboot were repurposed for the Auditor The makeup effects team was led by Mike Regan and Mike Measimer 2 Taylor s portrayal of Pinhead was intended to be leaner and more serious than previous incarnations lacking the earlier films glib one liners This was incorporated into the makeup and costume design with longer silver pins deeper blade slice cuts solid black eyes and a more visceral sleeker wardrobe The character s original attire was replaced with a ragged robe and butcher s skirt made of chain mail His many tools and weapons were replaced by a streamlined skinning utensil 2 24 38 Some grid like cuts were rearranged from his previous design with one square removed from each side of his jaw and one added to the back of his head 38 The flesh exposed on his chest was made a rhombus in honor of Leviathan the god worshiped by the Cenobites 2 a homage to the Eye of Agamotto symbolism from Doctor Strange lore was integrated into the costume 41 The Lament Configuration was also altered built with bleached wood and copper etching 38 The self inflicted lacerations on the Auditor s face were intended to be less patterned and more chaotic than that of the more ordered Cenobites The facial cuts positions were borrowed from an unsolicited redesign for Pinhead created by Tunnicliffe for Pascal Laugier s cancelled Hellraiser remake A blood stained shirt and threadbare two piece suit cover the cuts on the Auditor s body Religious symbols implicitly torn from the necks of the guilty are on the bracelet of his right wrist 13 41 His black spectacles convey the impression of soulless eyes 25 Tunnicliffe had to balance directing the film and overseeing the effects work About the quality of the blood effects he said I don t think it s so much the quantity of blood but more the nature of the effects the content and the context I think some of our blood gags are actually quite beautiful when you see blood raining down on a naked girl with a skinned face at 300 frames per second you can t help but be mesmerized by the fluid dynamics 24 Taylor compared the simulated gore to that of the Saw series I think people are going to be fascinated with it and the things that are what I would say on the border of horror porn there s some elements of that in it and that will please many Hellraiser fans and fans of just what contemporary horror can be these days where it s just a gross out 42 He later clarified I think the gore in the film is done because of the style and aesthetics in a beautiful way This is not masturbation and let s just throw blood at the screen 32 Tunnicliffe sent pictures to the wardrobe department of what he wanted the characters to wear and the department measured the actors Costumes designed and built for the Cenobites were handled by Tunnicliffe s department 27 He chose to have certain characters nude because he thought it would look visually more interesting than designing cheap costumes 43 The costume department used a cast of Taylor s head to design a pin mask for him to wear as Pinhead which covered his entire head except for his ears Although he found the costume and makeup extremely uncomfortable he integrated the discomfort into his performance as the sadomasochist 34 When he saw his reflection in the mirror in the Pinhead makeup he said he instantly fell into the character s mindset Taylor thought the makeup menacing enough that he had a minimalist approach to his performance feeling that attempting to be conventionally frightening would be overacting 42 44 Release and marketing editHellraiser Judgment was initially scheduled for a 2017 release In his interview with Dread Central Tunnicliffe stated that marketing would be kept to a minimum aside from the promotional images and casting news that had been released It seems to me that any images or fodder given out in good faith are kinda twisted around usually to the negative so the best response really is the film itself 45 Harvey Weinstein is said to be too embarrassed in promoting Judgment thus credited to delaying the film s release 46 Taylor gave a possible explanation in October for the delay saying the film may not have finished post production I have a reliable source who just informed me that Hellraiser Judgment has been on a shelf for a while unfinished But now that Harvey Weinstein is out of the picture Hellraiser Judgment has been taken off that shelf and is back in post production 47 Taylor expanded on his reasoning in a later interview stating the film might not have been released if not for the sexual abuse allegations against Weinstein which financially compromised the studio 33 The film s trailer and release date were released on January 9 2018 After nearly two years of silence from Dimension Films Lionsgate Films picked up the distribution rights for Hellraiser Judgment and Children of the Corn Runaway the former was released on digital and home media platforms on February 13 48 18 36 49 In the United States and Canada the film made a total of US 426 290 in home media sales US 83 599 on DVD and US 343 029 on Blu ray 50 51 Critical response editThe film was favorably compared to the franchise s earlier sequels 52 53 54 with Brad Miska of Bloody Disgusting calling it the most authentic Hellraiser since Bloodline 55 Collider s Haleigh Foutch praised its attempt to expand the Hellraiser universe but found the execution sloppy due to a low budget and pedestrian human drama 52 Forbes critic Luke Y Thompson wrote that it integrated the Earth and Hell scenes more effectively than previous sequels and praised the additional mythology as the best attempt since the early more Clive Barker infused theatrical films to deliver a coherent cosmology However he criticized the suggested retail price of the release recommending it only for Hellraiser fans 53 Although Miska found Judgment sluggish he noted the narrative served its purpose as a lead in to the finale Everything comes full circle in the final moments adding an entirely new dimension to the Hellraiser franchise yet the film is solely for Hellraiser apologists 55 Some critics deemed it the worst of the franchise with The Irish Times Tara Brady becoming pessimistic over the franchise s future and Scott Weinberg of Thrillist giving up on it entirely also noting that its reputation has decayed anyway leaving Judgment with few potential buyers 56 46 Critical reviews mainly decried bland acting 56 and storyline Birth Movies Death s Scott Wampler was also disappointed by the lack of screentime for Pinhead though he anticipated a future Tunnicliffe film with a decent budget or less meddling from the rights holders 57 Andrew Gaudion of FilmHounds additionally called it a boring copy of the 1995 thriller Seven and half baked when it comes to constructing its central gimmick He and We Got This Covered s Matt Donato found the police procedural elements generic and cliched with the latter opining that the gore and Hell elements are inadequate he called the film one of the least realized most throwaway of the series 58 59 The film s special effects and surreal imagery received mixed reviews Foutch and Gaudion enjoyed them 52 while The Guardian s Felperin calling the effects fake looking though praised the production design 56 the imagery was criticized by Weinberg 60 Although IGN s William Bibbiani called the pacing brisk he deemed the story a faded carbon copy of other better serial killer thrillers and felt the new additions to the Hellraiser mythology rob the Cenobites of their deviant allure and otherworldly menace 54 Wampler criticized the acting story and lack of screentime for Pinhead calling the film a mixed bag with the stuff I enjoyed ultimately outweighed by the stuff I did not 57 Steve Barton of Dread Central disagreed stating that the acting and story are surprisingly good Pinhead is omnipresent and Taylor delivers a worthy performance and is every bit as majestic as you d hope he d be 12 Future editJudgment expands on lore introduced in the earliest films with Taylor calling it a jumping off point for a sequel that tells a true Hellraiser script with an ambiguous ending He said the characters in the film could be used in future installments and expressed an interest in returning as Pinhead 42 but stated he would also be content with a bigger budgeted reboot starring Doug Bradley 44 Tunnicliffe had no particular idea for a sequel spin off or follow up of any kind when developing the film but has since suggested a scenario where the Auditor helps Pinhead reclaim his status to overthrow an incompetent successor a battle of the Hell priests 10 In May 2019 Spyglass Media Group began to develop a reboot of the series with David S Goyer serving as a writer and producer alongside Gary Barber who described the project as an evolved reimagining of the original film 61 In April 2020 writing team Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski came on to write with David Bruckner attached to direct 62 The film Hellraiser released in October 2022 on Hulu with Jamie Clayton taking over the role of Pinhead 63 In April 2020 HBO finalized a deal with David Gordon Green to direct a Hellraiser television series penned by Mark Verheiden and Michael Dougherty 64 The rights to the Stygian Inquisition remain with Tunnicliffe who has expressed an interest in doing a novel or short story involving the Auditor or the Order of the Effluvium 65 Bradley is open to returning to the Pinhead role but only with the right place right time right motives right script Since I turned down both movies I knew other actors would get to play the part I don t know about taking over enjoying temporary ownership maybe He was interested in starring in a film version of the Hellraiser novel The Scarlet Gospels but is unaware of any plans for such a film 66 Notes edit Credited in the official billing of the home media release As stated by writer director Gary J Tunnicliffe No source from Dimension Films is listed confirming an estimated budget References edit a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Miska Brad February 28 2016 Here s 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