Perfectly adorable

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

I'm a big fan of the Hellraiser franchise. Of course, there are some parts are like more than other and I do believe that at one point the franchise started to deteriorate. I found the last few movies pretty disappointing, but it turns out they were nothing compared to Hellraiser: Judgement.The plot is poorly constructed and for a larger part of the movie I had the feeling I was actually watching two stories which are only tangentially connected: one about demons and one about a typical boring cop duo trying to catch a typical boring serial killer. And sadly neither of these is interesting.The cops' story is as stereotypical as they come: two policemen with very different world views are hunting a serial killer murdering people because of their sins. This is a trope that's been used over and over again and in Hellraiser: Judgement we don't see anything new. The writing seems truly lazy here and I can't find one good thing to say about it.The demons' part of the movie is simply gross. Hellraiser movies have always been bloody and violent and I had nothing against that, because I felt that it was their way of showing some pretty universal truth about the nature of desire and lust. What I don't remember them being - at least to the extreme seen here - is disgusting. We get naked demon girls judging people by touching vomit. We get them showered in blood. We get a living animal sawn into a dead woman's womb. Torture scenes look more like Hostel than Hellraiser and I found the gore excessive and unnecessary.To make things even worse, the character which has always interested me the most, that is Pinhead, is hardly in the movie. A new demon is introduced and for the first part of the movie Pinhead just sits in a chair and speaks only a few words. Luckily, in the last 15 minutes of the movie there is more of him and that is the only fragment that really feels like Hellraiser. Only this last part redeems the movie and stops me from giving it a one-star review.

Not even worth reviewing. Nothing similar with original movie. Bad screenwriting, worse directing and picture, the worst masks and acting I had ever seen *well, almost the worst). It has no point, it has no plot, it only has titties, which are not even a point of anything in the movie. Loss of time and money.

First and foremost I am a diehard fan of the Hellraiser Franchise and even with the later sequels not being anywhere near as amazing as the original, (honestly some are pretty bad) they are all watchable for me, and each one has a different aspect that I think gives it a place in the Hellrasier/Clive Barker universe.Now with that being said Hellraiser: Judgement is a step in the right direction. Not only is it a better movie than the last few, it's the best Hellraiser film since Part 3 Hell on Earth. This movie has a lot of upsides to it, Paul Taylor as Pinhead is a major improvement when compared to the last one. The introduction of The Auditor is great, he adds some much needed flare to the rest of the Cenobites, the new process we see captives go through is interesting, and the film storyline is better as a whole. Now don't get me wrong, this is not the Hellraiser that was shown to us in 1987, but it's a hell of a lot better than what came before it and with the budget and timeframe this movie had to get finished it's pretty good. I think the Director Gary J. Tunnicliffe has a vision that he just hasn't been given the assets to accomplish. Mainly because of who owns the rights to the franchise.Finally this movie isn't without its problems. The plot of is much like Hellraiser films we have seen before and the first half feels like a rip off of Seven. The lighting in it has an orange, yellow muted tone that makes me feel like I am watching an early 2000's Saw movie, which is a far cry from the light blue, cold feeling the first ones gave me. Pinheads screen time is pretty short, which personally I don't consider that a problem, but a lot of people will. There isn't much gore throughout the movie which again I don't mind, and finally I would have loved to have seen a few new cenobites besides Pinhead and the Auditor.With a bigger budget and more time this movie would have been much better and even with the issues I enjoy Hellraiser: Judgement quite a bit. It will have its haters and probably split the fans of the franchise down the middle, some loving, and others not so much. At the least this movie will get fans talking, which will hopefully generate some momentum and get another sequel off the ground with more support than this one had. Diehard fans like myself will enjoy Hellraiser: Judgement it has pleasure and pain, but much more pleasure.

I am a big fan, and this movie was the last shot. It killed the image of hellraiser forever.