The triumphant return of Kirsty Cotton who has now been released from the sanitarium and moved on in her life with a husband named Trevor.On their anniversary he presents her with a golden cube that haunted her years before.During a car ride to call her nerves they are involved in a car crash and Trevor now must reclaim his memory and move on without his wife.I was a little underwhelmed at first since I wanted see more of Ashely going against her biggest nemeses and catch up to get ten years to see what her life was like. Still Trevor isn't bland with a rich history that's explored throughout from the many girls he cheated on his wife with, man he got around, to his work life and friends.I found pinhead very ominous here, appearing out of shadows and sending his minions to torment him through fantasy dreams playing on what is real or not.The style does follow the last film since it was another script not meant for this series, but a step down from the unique fresh take we already experienced.I didn't think Trevor's confusion was handled properly or his love for his wife he claims to have and they sabotaged Kirsty's character by making her a jilted wife out for vengeance by killing his mistresses. It didn't need to sabotage all the victims in order to make the villain the good guy you root for.Despite its shortcomings I found Pinhead to be back to his old self and hope he stays the same on my journey forward.

Dean Winters, you know, who played Ryan O Reilly in HBO's OZ, and that guy from those pesky All State commercials stars as another unscrupulous character who must make his entry into hell for cheating on wife, Ashley Lawrence (from the first Hellraiser film). Overall, this installment in the franchise series is very much like the last "Hellraiser Inferno", but lacks depth or originality. Winter's character undergoes amnesia and must slowly put the pieces together of his former life in which he committed sinful acts that eventually lead him to Pinhead and the cenobites. Its a tedious venture that blends hallucinations with reality as Winters wanders around in confusion and persecution during his trial. Expect very little gore, few thrills, and no nudity. This is almost like a TV-14 rated episode of American Horror Story rather than a full-blown Hellraiser movie. It tries to redeem itself in the climax as Pinhead reveals Winter's memory and a plot to steal back the soul of Lawrence's character, but is inevitably predicable. Doug Bradly's return as Pinhead is profound as usual, but beautiful Ashley Lawrence is tragically wasted.

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.

A shady businessman attempts to piece together the details of the car crash that killed his wife (Ashley Laurence) and rendered him an amnesiac -- and left him in possession of a sinister puzzle box that summons monsters.So, here we go... a Hellraiser film with little or no connection to the other films. Sure, you say it is connected because of Kirsty Cotton and the puzzle box. But no, you are just falling for their trick.What we actually have here is two films trying to act as one. We have Kirsty and the puzzle box (again), and her making a deal with Pinhead. I think this went partially out of character for her, but basically stayed within the realm of the Hellraiser mythology.But then we also have a story of a man who cannot remember if he killed his wife or if she died in a car accident or what actually happened. And had his wife been anyone other than Kirsty, it still would have made a good story -- and, in fact, probably would have been a better one.Because when you mix them, here comes the problem: the twist of bringing up Hellraiser basically reveals the plot surrounding the husband to not really matter, therefore making the first two-thirds of the movie completely pointless in retrospect. Instead of two decent movies, they decided to breed and make one really terrible, ugly film. And that was just stupid...