Halloween 2025: Day 17

Hellraiser: Judgment

“Suffer? Me? How dare you use such a word? You know nothing of suffering. I welcome its warm embrace. I exist only to share its meaning. Sin and suffering are my dominion. Perhaps it’s time you learned a little of the matters you seek to manage.”

This film has a clear aesthetic vision and executes it, which puts it above half the series on a technical level (the dialog is also intelligible.) Unfortunately part of that vision is attractive naked women as set dressing, so it gets points docked immediately. On a plot level I’ve made clear my distaste for turning Cenobites into literal Christian Hell demons, and this one is all about the politics of Heaven and Hell. It does some vaguely interesting things with that, but it’s so very much not what I want a Hellraiser film to be that it ends up pretty near the bottom of the list.

SurrealEstate S02E06

Luke actually does his job without whining, and admits that Susan not being there makes the agency function less well. Haunting of the week is a bit meh, though.