| Hellraiser: Deader | |
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Directed by |
Rick Bota |
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Produced by |
Christopher Figg |
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Written by |
Neal Marshall Stevens and Scott Atkins |
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Story by |
Tim Day |
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Based on |
characters by Clive Barker |
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Release date(s) |
June 7, 2005 |
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Running time |
88 minutes |
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Country |
United States and Romania |
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Language |
English |
Hellraiser: Deader is a 2005 American horror film directed by Rick Bota. It is the seventh installment in the Hellraiser series. Like the previous two entries in the series, Hellraiser: Inferno and Hellraiser: Hellseeker it began as an unrelated horror spec script owned by Dimension, which was rewritten as a Hellraiser film to save money on hiring writers to create an original script.
Hellraiser: Deader was released straight to DVD in the United States on June 7, 2005.
Plot
A female reporter named Amy Klein (Kari Wuhrer) is sent to Bucharest
to investigate the origins of a video tape apparently depicting the ritualistic murder and subsequent resurrection of a member of a cult calling themselves "The Deaders". In Bucharest, Amy tracks down the return addr
Lament Configuration. Solving the box causes Hooks appear which try to pull her into the box. Pinhead the Cenobite (Doug Bradley) appears, warning her she is in danger. Amy pursues leads, ultimately tracking down Winter Lemarchand, (Paul Rhys) the leader of the cult. Winter is the descendant of the toymaker who designed the puzzle box, which can open a portal to a realm populated by the Cenobites, hedonistic entities that experiment in forms of extreme sadomasochism. Winter believes that as the heir to the LeMarchand name, it is his birthright to access the realm of the Cenobites and become their master. However, Winter has been unnable to open the box himself. Believing that it takes an individual whose life circumstances have brought them to a nihilistic point beyond life-or-death, Winter founded the Deaders, attracting emotionally vulnerable individuals, murdering them, and resurrecting them with necromancy in the hopes of creating someone who can open the box. Winter kills and resurrects Amy, resulting in her experiencing an extended waking dream during which she relives sexual abuse from her childhood. Coming back to reality in the Deaders' compound, Amy successfully opens the box and summons the Cenobites. Their leader, Pinhead, expresses disdain for Winter and his family and denies that any mortal could ever control the Cenobites. Pinhead and the Cenobites then slaughter all of the Deaders before indicating to Amy that she is now indebted to them by opening the box. Rather than be taken back to the Cenobite realm, Amy kills herself.
Cenobites
- Pinhead
- Little Sister
- Bound
- Stitch
- Chatterer III
- Spike (Deleted from film)