• Zahille7@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    The trailer makes it seem like there will be “lesser” demons or creatures we may fight, but if a Cenobite knows we’re there, we’re fucked.

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      15 hours ago

      Which is a problem the movies themselves increasingly did by having cannon fodder cenobites to add action or a sense of hope.

      Hellraiser, at its best, is about despair and helplessness where the only way out is to destroy your own humanity.

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        3 hours ago

        I mean sure, but you gotta break up the monotony sometimes.

        Even the recent Call of Cthulhu game broke up its slow story segments with a few action scenes.