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HELLRAISER (2022): Dull and sexless. Where's the BDSM? Where's the kink? Where's the queerness? Why does this understand the original HELLRAISER's themes less than a fucking Rick & Morty episode?Permalink On Internet Archive
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There's no reason he would but I'd get Peter Strickland to direct a Hellraiser. He is a director who understands kink and the representation of fetishes on screen. He could understand what the Cenobites are.Permalink On Internet Archive
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When Andrew Robinson says "Jesus wept!" in the original, it works as a culmination because he's not just suffering: we can also sense the transgressive pleasure behind it, his final acknowledgement of the hidden desires that this bizarre ritual has freed in him.Permalink On Internet Archive
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The new HELLRAISER has some talk of the "limits of experience" and the nature of sensation (mostly direct quotes from the original though) but there's no thematic understanding of the original's queering of pleasure and pain. Victims in this one just scream at the chains.Permalink On Internet Archive
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Plus they find a fucking instruction manual for the Lament Configuration. Jesus wept indeed.On Internet Archive