YMMV / Hellraiser: Judgement

• Character Rerailment: Picking up where Revelations left off, Pinhead is back to being a judge of the truly wicked, not a stereotypical slasher baddie who kills everyone he runs across. Not to mention that his look is closer to the classic movies than the rather goofy design from Revelations and his voice is closer to Doug Bradley's tones.
• Complete Monster: The Preceptor—Detective Sean Carter—is a deranged Serial Killer, with at least 14 victims to his name, who targets his victims based on the Ten Commandments. Having punished an "idolater", the Preceptor kills a woman and surgically places her still living dog into her womb; to punish a pair of "liars", he cuts the tongues out of two parents before force-feeding them to their son; to punish petty thieves, he tortures and mutilates three young teens and leaves their hands, eyes, and teeth as a message. The Preceptor has a run in with the Stygian Inquisition and seeks to escape retribution from Hell; his wickedness is so great and depraved that the demon who devours sin as part of his judgment ends up choking and vomiting on it. Revealing himself as the killer, Carter later forces his wife and brother to open the Lament Configuration to punish them for their affair and attempts to offer them to Hell in his place.
• Surprisingly Improved Sequel: Compared to other Hellraiser films in the canon (Inferno, Hellseeker, Deader, Hellworld) that originated as non-Hellraiser horror films modified to include token Cenobite/Pinhead scenes to make them into Hellraiser films. Promoted Fanboy Gary Tunnicliffe attempts to rationalize Pinhead's Motive Decay into becoming a dignified and sinister figure of moral authority over the damned instead of his original Affably Evil sadomasochist incarnation seen in Hellraiser, Hellbound, and Revelations by establishing that the Order of the Gash had been merged with a rival Order in Hell that specializes in judging the damned.