another tortured soul...

Hellraiser: Hellseeker

*

Uh-oh, Pinhead has found another tortured soul to torment for aproximately 90 minutes. Hellraiser: Hellseeker is the 27th or 28th movie in this long-standing direct-to-video franchise that is becoming increasingly stupid.

It all began in 1987 when Clive Barker adapted his great novella, The Hellbound Heart into a creepy, gory, awesome horror picture called Hellraiser. Since then, the main villain, Pinhead (pictured wonderfully there on the cover for this movie) has made appearances in something like seven or eight Hellraiser pictures. Thsi first was amazing, the second was ok, but until now, I haven't seen any of the other ones. I figured, there must be a reason for it. And there was. Because these movies are terrible. Bloody awful.

This one focuses on a man who loses his wife in a terrible car accident, but when as life goes on, strange things begin to happen. Like the detectives saying his wife wasn't in the car. And those fuckin' cenobites (Pinhead and his gang of S & M bound mates) keep showing up at the weirdest places.

This one tries to be artsy, and it seemed like whoever wrote this little gem has watched The Usual Suspects and Reservois Dogs a few too many times. Strange plot devices thrown in that don't make sense until the end. And like most of the Hellraiser pictures, Pinhead is not a central figure to the plot. Not really. He's just there to throw the odd clue into the mix and be creepy in rooms full of chains. And usually in the last fifteen minutes or so, he shows up to bring you up to speed and claim a soul or two, or in the case of this movie, five.

I have a copy of Hellraiser: Deader around here to watch sometime. I'm not sure I'm going to after seeing this one. I think my time with Pinhead is done. Unless the Scream Channel decides to play the original again. Don't waste your time with this one. Or any of the other Hellraiser sequels. All these movies do, is go to show that Pinhead, while a wonderfully creepy horror villain, is not worth the time and money put into renting such atrocities.

I think I would almost rather take one of the pin from said villain's head and stab myself in the kneecap than watch another of these movies.

I justify the one star on the simple fact that Pinhead was in it. No matter how bad these movies are, I really do like that needle-headed mofo.