The Evolution Of Pinhead From 1986 To 2022 – /Film

"Hellraiser: Hellseeker" is notable for the return of the original film's final girl, Kirsty (Ashley Laurence), but otherwise it essentially recycles the plot of "Hellraiser: Inferno." Again, the film follows a corrupt husband who realizes by the end of the film that he's actually been trapped in Hell, and is being punished by Pinhead (Doug Bradley) for crimes he committed while he was alive. Though he has a more prominent role, Pinhead doesn't actually appear until the final act, when Trevor (Dean Winters) realizes that the body on the table is not his dead wife's but his own.

Screenwriter Tim Day recounts having a hard time getting Laurence, who exited the franchise after cameoing in the third film, to sign on to the project. He says it was actually Bradley himself who convinced her. As Laurence recalled in Cinescape (again, via Clive Barker's website), "I got a call from Doug Bradley at home, and kind of out of the blue he said that he was doing 'Hellraiser' and that the director was talking about the fact that he would love to bring back the Kirsty character in a cameo."

Despite this rehashed plot, "Hellraiser: Hellseeker" presents an interesting shift in Pinhead's methods and motivations. In a return to the original source material, Pinhead becomes fixated on capturing Kirsty, who escaped the Cenobites in the original film. To save herself, Kirsty brokers a deal with Pinhead, offering up five different souls in exchange for her own.

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