Hellraiser: Judgement (2018)

Yeah it's weird. You can tell that it could have been an unrelated script, because the characters have no relationship to anything in previous movies, but it just happens to be the best of the later, unrelated sequels. It's a decent story and it's well directed and has an appropriate mind fuck kind of trippy quality to it. It works overall and even though you can tell that it was a separate story adapted to fit in to the Hellraiser series, it actually makes sense in its own context.

This new one looks shitty, and really cheap. It looks like a relatively decent fan film as opposed to an official, studio produced, major release made entirely by professionals.

Naturally, that still means it looks about a million times better than the last one, but I do fear that this one is also a quickie just to keep the rights. A buddy of mine met the new Pinhead, and he nothing but good things to say about the guy, and he looks decent enough here. I think if the movie is bad it will likely not be his fault. He's taking a good attitude toward it if you ever hear what he has to say about it.

I hope it's good, but despite some fairly nice looking shots, the whole thing seems really small in scale and looks cheaply made. It has a very digital, camcorder-ish look to the cinematography, and all of these torture set piece shots we see in the trailer seem to be shot in one poorly lit room. I think this was likely a very amateurish production, and I'm really not expecting much.