Hellraiser: Hellseeker
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Directed by | Rick Bota |
Written by | Carl V. Dupré Tim Day |
Produced by | Michael Leahy Rob Schmidt |
Starring | Doug Bradley Ashley Laurence Dean Winters William S. Taylor |
Cinematography | John Drake |
Edited by | Anthony Adler Lisa Mozden |
Music by | Stephen Edwards |
Distributed by | Dimension Home Video Miramax Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $3,000,000 (estimated) |
Hellraiser: Hellseeker (also known as Hellraiser VI: Hellseeker)[1] is a 2002 American horror film directed by Rick Bota and written by Carl V. Dupré and Tim Day. It is the sixth film in the Hellraiser series, directed by Rick Bota. It also features the return of Kirsty Cotton, the heroine from Hellraiser and its sequel. Also, while not officially part of the production team, Clive Barker had cursory input on the film and some uncredited influence on the third act, specifically.[2] Hellseeker was the last Hellraiser film to have any involvement from Barker, uncredited or otherwise.
The film was filmed in 2001 in Vancouver, British Columbia[2] and released straight to video in the United States on October 15, 2002.
Plot
Trevor Gooden (Dean Winters) survives a car accident that apparently killed his wife Kirsty Cotton-Gooden (Ashley Laurence) when their car plunged off a bridge into the river below. Trevor manages to escape with his life, but even though police divers find both car doors open there is no sign of Kirsty.
One month later, Trevor wakes up in a hospital and realizes that his wife is missing, but because of a head injury his memory is uncertain and he cannot distinguish between fantasy and reality. Trevor finds himself the prime suspect in a murder case, and has numerous encounters with homicide detectives Givens and Lange, though the two detectives never appear to be together at the same place. Many strange events befall him, including experiencing various hallucinations and several important events turning out to be just figments of Trevor's imagination. Trevor also witnesses his friend Bret (Trevor White) commit suicide.
Eventually, Trevor is summoned to the police station and taken to the basement by Detective Lange in order to identify a body. There it is revealed that Givens and Lange are actually a single monstrous creature with 2 different heads. Trevor runs away from them and enters a morgue. Just as he is about to uncover a dead body on an operating table, the Cenobite Pinhead (Doug Bradley) appears and reveals the truth to Trevor. In reality, Kirsty is in fact still alive. Trevor cheated on his wife with many other women, and tried to get rid of Kirsty by making her reopen the Lament Configuration. She did that, but before being taken away forever, she made one last deal with Pinhead: she offered to give him five souls in exchange for hers. She killed three of Trevor's mistresses and his friend Bret, who was conspiring to kill her for her fortune.
Trevor is in shock by the revelation and takes the covers off the body on the operating table, believing it to be Kirsty. The person on the table is not Kirsty, but is in fact him. He is the fifth soul and this entire time he has been in Hell living in limbo. Trying to rediscover his past and piece his life back together was his punishment for his disloyalty to his wife and his inability to accept who he truly was. It seems that she has pinned all of the murders on Trevor and shot Trevor through the head while he was driving, leading him to crash the car into the river and making his death appear as a suicide. The film ends with Kirsty walking away from the car crash scene with the Lament Configuration in her hand.
Cast
- Ashley Laurence as Kirsty Cotton-Gooden
- Doug Bradley as Pinhead / Merchant (as Charles Stead)
- Dean Winters as Trevor Gooden
- William S. Taylor as Det. Mike Lange
- Michael Rogers as Detective Givens
- Rachel Hayward as Dr. Allison Dormer
- Trevor White as Bret
- Sarah-Jane Redmond as Gwen Stevens
- Jody Thompson as Tawny
- Kaaren de Zilva as Sage
- Dale Wilson as Chief Surgeon / Surgeon Cenobite
- Ken Camroux as Dr. Ambrose
- Brenda McDonald as Angular Nurse
Critical reception
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The film still has a 0% approval rating at review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes.[3]
Richard Scheib of Moria called the movie "quite an oddity". He stated that "Hellseeker would have worked much more effectively if it were not a Hellraiser film, one suspects" and rated it two and a half stars out of five.[4]
Scot Weiber of eFilmCritic stated in the film's review: "Though a marked improvement over its two immediate forefathers, Hellseeker suffers from the same maladies as the cheapies that came before: muddled storytelling, turgid pacing, unconvincing acting performances, and an overall sense of filmmakers simply not trying all that hard". He described the film's finale as being "culled directly from cult-fave Jacob's Ladder" and rated the movie one star out of five.[5]
References
- ^ "Hellraiser VI: Hellseeker". Miramax Films. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
- ^ a b "The Official Clive Barker Website - Hellraiser 6". Clivebarker.info. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
- ^ "Hellraiser: Hellseeker". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved June 27, 2016.
- ^ "Hellraiser: Hellseeker". Moria. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
- ^ "Movie Review - Hellraiser: Hellseeker by Scott Weinberg". eFilmCritic. Retrieved September 3, 2018.
External links
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- 2002 films
- 2002 horror films
- American supernatural horror films
- American films
- American direct-to-video films
- Direct-to-video horror films
- Films based on works by Clive Barker
- Hellraiser
- Religious horror films
- Direct-to-video interquel films
- Films shot in Vancouver
- 2002 direct-to-video films
- Dimension Films films