I had high hopes for HELLSEEKER because it sees the heroine of the first HELLRAISER Kirsty Cotton return to the franchise . It also stars Dean Winters an actor who came to my attention as Ryan O'Riley the complex anti-hero from the criminally underrated prison drama Oz . Also the HELLRAISER series shows signs of having legs unlike say SAW or NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET . So what could possibly go wrong ?
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The problem is that no one bothered realising the potential of the series . Winters plays Trevor who is now wedded to Kirsty . There's a car accident and Trevor survives but Kirsty has disappeared . Trevor is now haunted by vivid nightmares and the nightmares and reality merge . Alarm bells start ringing in your head by the halfway point and you're constantly saying to yourself " Trevor can't be dead and in hell because they did that in the previous movie " . Alas however as much as you don't want that to happen the producers have plagiarized the exact same plot from INFERNO
What makes this worse is that this sequel apart from being unoriginal is a much dumber film . INFERNO did have the decency to remain enigmatic and it was left to the audience to join up the dots as to how and why Craig Sheffer's cop finds himself in hell . Unfortunately here everything is explained which throws up more of its own problems . The Cenobites catch up with Kirsty so she makes a deal to give Pinhead and his cohorts five souls in return for her life . Why would he agree when he wasn't so negotiable in the first movie ? There's also the plot turn of Kirsty dispatching Trevor and the police taking this at face value . I know in films cop are dumb but is there any reason to treat the audience with such stupidity ?
!!!! MAJOR SPOILERS !!!!!
The problem is that no one bothered realising the potential of the series . Winters plays Trevor who is now wedded to Kirsty . There's a car accident and Trevor survives but Kirsty has disappeared . Trevor is now haunted by vivid nightmares and the nightmares and reality merge . Alarm bells start ringing in your head by the halfway point and you're constantly saying to yourself " Trevor can't be dead and in hell because they did that in the previous movie " . Alas however as much as you don't want that to happen the producers have plagiarized the exact same plot from INFERNO
What makes this worse is that this sequel apart from being unoriginal is a much dumber film . INFERNO did have the decency to remain enigmatic and it was left to the audience to join up the dots as to how and why Craig Sheffer's cop finds himself in hell . Unfortunately here everything is explained which throws up more of its own problems . The Cenobites catch up with Kirsty so she makes a deal to give Pinhead and his cohorts five souls in return for her life . Why would he agree when he wasn't so negotiable in the first movie ? There's also the plot turn of Kirsty dispatching Trevor and the police taking this at face value . I know in films cop are dumb but is there any reason to treat the audience with such stupidity ?