Review of Hellraiser: Hellseeker

Hellseeker is the sixth installment on the Hellraiser movie series and unfortunately is a mess. The movie is very confusing, until the very end, when finally the mistery is unveiled, which can be good, but if as a viewer, cannot catch up with the plot, this is in fact an issue. This is a lazy sequel, they simply decided to copy-paste the plot of the previous movie, by just changing a few details. The cast is way worse than any other movie of the saga. The main character is annoying and really, really dumb, his reactions are unbelievable: when he is in danger he should defend, or at least run away so he can survive, this guy instead is most of the time is completely still, even if the bad guy is catching him. The rest of the actors pretty much mediocre, they are enough skillful to keep the movie barely afloat, but that's it.

There are graphic scenes, but way less compared to previous movies, giving more space on the psychological fear. Hellraiser wanted to take a different direction, so forget about the gore scenes from the original trilogy, a real pity, because these movies used to be all about violence and blood, while this is a kid movie compared to the original trilogy. Special and practical effects are still very good, even if in some scenes may be a little bit cheesy. I have always praised Hellraiser saga because directors wanted always to create something different, and they've never been scared of experimenting new stuff, but this movie is very lazy, especially on terms of screenwriting.