Hellraiser: Hellseeker (2002)

i must have seen a different film!!

Best movie ever!

There are women in the film, but none has anything you could call a personality.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It is nice to see Ashley Lawrence form the original two films return to the franchise. I enjoyed Kirsty back and reference to the first film. This installment is essentially a murder mystery as detectives try to solve a missing person case. This is certainly much better than 3, 4 & 5 in the series. The storyline is unfortunately confusing due to constant dreams and hallucinations. Pinhead also only arrives an hour into the movie, and then disappears again for a bit only to return for the finale. Great twist ending. Dean Winters is very good in the role of Kirsty's husband, Trevor.

The "Hellraiser" series as we know it took a new turn for the better and the worst with "Hellraiser: Inferno" and Hellseeker follows in those footsteps.Much like Part 5, Hellseeker pulls an "Angel Heart"-light on our asses and plunges its lead character, as well as the audience, into a Trippe world of visions, mind-bending reality, confused identity, flashbacks, what not. Overall, "Hellraiser: Hellseeker" did provide for some quality entertainment and I dug it as a stand alone. But much like Inferno,Dean Winters (Trevor) does OK with the material that he's given.Ashley Laurence (Kirsty) shines in the limited time she's given, it was great to see the dame kicking it again it was her best performance as Kristy id like to see her return as a female Pinhead one day. Doug Bradley (Pinhead) walks through this one; I think he also knew that Pinhead doesn't have much to do with this sequel. Sarah Jane Redmond (Gwen) does the S&M jive very well and has a belly I'd love to lick 24/7. William S. Taylor (Det. Lange) charmed me with his unique behaviour; there was something about the guy that just made me want to watch him go. he "Seven"-esque look kicks in again with the colours being washed out and the tone being all grim. It still works although it's starting to get a little tired. Bota handles his directorial duties well by slapping in potent slow motion, giving the images an effective bluish tint, using the occasional blurry cam and delivering stylish camera angles. Competent. If you liked "Hellraiser: Inferno", you'll most likely get a few hooks in the throat from this one. The flick is well shot, eerie and will mind-bang your every orifice. But if you're going in here expecting Kirsty, Pinhead and the Cenobites to be relevant factors in this hallucinatory ball game; get ready for a letdown, because they're basically window dressing to allow the makers to call this"Hellraiser".

Hellraiser: Hellseeker sees the welcome return of the very lovely Ashley Laurence as Kirsty, but unfortunately she's not really in it for very long, quickly disappearing into the murky depths after her husband Trevor (Dean Winters) crashes their car in a river. The remainder of the film centres around Trevor as he struggles to remember the events leading up to the accident, tries to convince the police that he didn't kill his wife on purpose, suffers from a series of terrifying episodes that make it hard for him (and us) to tell what is real and what is imagined, and occasionally bumps into old Pinhead (Doug Bradley).One of the most predictable and overused twists in horror is the 'they were dead the whole time' revelation as seen in films like Carnival of Souls, Jacob's Ladder, Reeker, The Sixth Sense, Dead End, and The Others. Hellraiser: Hellseeker also goes with this trite revelation, despite the previous chapter in the franchise, Hellraiser: Inferno, utilising a similar plot device (slightly adapted so that the main character was revealed to be forever trapped in his own personal hell). If you've already seen Inferno, you'll get a strange sense of deja vu with Hellseeker. While it's not a completely unwatchable movie, it does prove a rather disappointing one simply because it offers virtually nothing new to fans of the series.

...about this sequel not as good as the one before, I thought it was better then the fourth movie in the series for so far.The most of the movie. I was really confused, as the movie kept on going, I just kept on getting more and more confused..I did not understand what the hell was going for most of the movie, I just found the whole movie to be very bizarre.I did not find that boring, there were some dull parts that drag on bit but that really, found this sequel well worth watching.I Clad that Kirsty returned in this movie to have a connections to the early movies in the seriesI really liked the the ending, it really took me by surprised as did not seeing coming at all,Over I thought it was very decent sequel but it did not have many bloody moment in this at all, i thought it even less gory then one before, which had very little gory in it.I give this 5 out of 10