Headscratchers / Afterlife (1996)

• A couple of structures in hell contain a "fake heaven" type punishment. The problem is, in order to get to these structures, the SOULs first have to pass through one of hell's gates, which process newcomers in a deliberately cruel and invasive way, and then walk through hell proper at least a distance comparable to their home planet's radius. Why would they be fooled by the time they get there?
  • Presumably they let them wander enough (though hell's needlessly complicated and torturous road system no less) until they happen upon the place and assume they somehow escaped.
  • In belief systems that include both heaven and hell, SOULs are first purified in hell before allowed to spend the rest of eternity in heaven. This is why in a long game, heaven will get full first. The demons could simply tell incoming SOULs that the painful journey to the punishment structure has already purified them and they're off the hook.