And it did all of this while keeping the gore to a minimum. You know, rich guy wants to chase after the unknown, figures out how to keep the evil characters trapped, and then goes down in a ball of flames after a plot for people to be bait falters. I want a bloody gory Hellraiser! Also, the movie reminded me of 13 Ghosts in how the house was designed to keep the Cenobites out. I wanted to see heads being pulled apart, bodies being skinned alive, bubbling masses of flesh developing into a human form, sexual tension, incest, lust, and the deep exploration of humans addicted to gratifying their desires only to end up in hell being ripped apart. For me, that is what Hellraiser is supposed to do: go face first into the blood and pain.

First teased with this video in October 2016, the Seraphim project sought. Yet, I kept hoping for a film that tapped into the horror of what the Cenobites do to their victims. Loki shifted into the form of a hawk, rose high in the sky and hovered, and dove back down to retransform into his manly. Following their involvement in writing spin-off Hellraiser comic stories for Boom Studios, members of Seraphims creative team including Ben Meares, Christian Francis and Mark Miller came together to produce the in-house Hellraiser Anthology graphic novel in April 2017. The story was serviceable, as were the characters.

Honestly, for me, it was lacking great gore.

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