Post by JD Buffington on Nov 22, 2022 20:15:40 GMT
I'm behind on Ghost Writers Podcast and listening to the Cenobite Situation, and I'm going to dive into spoilers for 2022 straight away:
I agree with Somer, these Cenobites were djinn. Supposedly this exists within the existing Hellraiser canon, though what is canon out of a bunch of rights-keeping sequels? Anyway, I saw a little bit of Hellraiser's 1-4 sprinkled through the new movie. The same mechanics of the box over a building was a major plot point for Bloodlines (my personal stopping point for Hellraiser) that was born out of the events of Hell on Earth. Leviathan and the maze world are straight out of 2... I think they took the shiniest bits of those original sequels that were already degrading and provided a new sandbox to play in.
Personally, I liked that addiction was the motivator and may have influenced why the Cenobites act the way they do, I identified with losing someone and their effectively vanishing from the face of the Earth. Once she lost her brother, the main character becomes addicted to completing the puzzle, killing people with the box became the hits to get a little closer to her goal (though once she got the Chatterer, why didn't she just start stabbing the rest of the Cenobites?), and I feel like the Cenobites, if they are djinn, are making the empty promises a genie would to funnel their victim right where they want them.
The finale of the "Lament" option, I think her issues with addiction are what you have to keep in mind: she won't stop thinking about it. Everything she has seen and been through, the death, especially of her brother, is what she will obsess over now. She still had the box, she will call them again. They're counting on it.
I did, however, love that picking power turns you into a Cenobite. Maybe Voight can be a problematic Cenobite in a sequel.
Just a few thoughts on the new Hellraiser, please feel free to talk all things Hellraiser, past, present, and future!