Hellraiser: Judgment

"Evil seeks evil."

2018 1h 21m EN

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Three detectives trying to stop a diabolical serial killer are sucked into a maze of otherworldly horror, where hellish denizens including the Auditor, the Assessor, and the Jury await to pass judgment.

“Evil seeks evil.”

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Cast

Damon Carney
Detective Sean Carter
Randy Wayne
Detective David Carter
Paul T. Taylor
Pinhead
Alexandra Harris
Detective Christine Egerton
Gary J. Tunnicliffe
The Auditor
Rheagan Wallace
Alison Carter
John Gulager
The Assessor
Helena Grace Donald
Jophiel

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Gary J. Tunnicliffe
Writers: Gary J. Tunnicliffe
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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81 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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MONEY

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Shot for just $0.3M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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ERA

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Released 8 years ago.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "Hellraiser Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Gary J. Tunnicliffe, shot by Samuel Calvin. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Michael Griffin shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Damon Carney and Randy Wayne and Paul T. Taylor carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Evil seeks evil.".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Gary J. Tunnicliffe directs. Samuel Calvin behind the camera. Michael Griffin cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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181 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
2Shot for just $0.3M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
3Released 8 years ago.
4Part of the "Hellraiser Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by Gary J. Tunnicliffe, shot by Samuel Calvin. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Editor Michael Griffin shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Damon Carney and Randy Wayne and Paul T. Taylor carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Evil seeks evil.".
9IMDB entry: tt5476182 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography: Samuel Calvin
Editing: Michael Griffin
Production design: Brent David Mannon
Costume design: Jenava Burguiere
Makeup / hair: Sharon Tabb
VFX supervisor: Matthew Gardocki
Stunt coordinator: Kent Shelton
Runtime: 81 min · 1h 21m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $350,000
Box office: $426,290
Return: 122% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): NR
IMDB: Hellraiser: Judgment (2018)

Part of

Hellraiser Collection

Hellraiser is a British horror film franchise is based on the novella The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker. The films continually features the Cenobite Pinhead. The series’ storyline focuses on a puzzle box that opens a gateway to the Hell-like realm of the Cenobites, an order of formerly human monsters who harvest human souls to torture in sadomasochistic experiments.

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Sheldon Nylander2019-09-06
★ 3/10
Well, it's better than "Revelations," I will grant that. Taking a note from "Hellraiser: Inferno," we once again are following a cop and his partner(s) as they track a sadistic killer whose killing follow the Ten Commandments (name the film this brings to mind in ten, nine, eight, ...), all while the Cenobites seem to be doing...something in the background (seriously, I'm not sure what they're really up to; it starts at the beginning of the film with a discussion about how antiquated the Lament Configuration is and how outdated they seem to be with increasingly debauched pleasures and pains readily available; I don't know, it never seems to really go anywhere). Or we would be following them if we weren't already pretty much near the end of an investigation that had been going on for a while. The really bizarre thing is that, for the tenth movie in the series, you can actually see the potential for a decent and interesting film here. But they drop the ball hard, and it's a potential that they fail to realize on an epic scale. The main problem here, and I can't believe I'm about to say this, is that the film needed to be longer. More hints at the ultimate solution to the mystery needed to be dropped, enough so that when looking back, the audience could say, "Yeah, how did I miss that?" rather than "Did I miss something?" It also results in a real lack of characterization, although I have to admit that it's not entire for want of trying. I like that there are hints at a bigger picture, even if they do fly in the face of established Hellraiser lore. For the first time, we see an actual angelic counterpart to the demonic Cenobites, although the problem here is that the Cenobites were never really established as demons, per se. It's also got a twist ending that's bizarre even by Hellraiser standards, and might have worked if Pinhead in particular were given more of a character in this film. Instead, the ending is entirely dependent on knowledge of him from previous films, but let's be honest here, no one who isn't familiar with the previous films will see this one. Again, 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.

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