Budget: $4Million
Directed By: Kevin Yagher
Aaah the staple of horror films well at least a lot of them, the IN SPACE SEQUEL. That's right Leprechaun, Friday the 13th they've all ventured into space.
So we join Dr Paul Merchant aboard a giant space station, It's 2127. He's sealed himself into a room and is using some remote controlled droid to manipulate the puzzle box. Just as it's opened the soldiers break into the room, Merchant gives up and tells them the story about the lament puzzle box was created.
We then skip back to France in 1796 where we join LeMarchand a distant relative of Merchants. He is an intricate toy maker famous throughout the land.
He is commissioned by an aristocrat to create the puzzle box. LeMarchand Doesn't know that he's creating a portal to hell.
He views the Aristocrat calling forth a demon from hell, Angelique. The thing is hell back then wasn't the same as 20th century hell, they we more about seduction for your soul. LeMarchand see's this and runs home. He begins working on a new box to seal the powers of the first one he made.
He later travels back to the mansion to try and steal the original box, Jacques the aristocrats servant has taken control of Angelique and they both end up killing LeMarchand.
Flash up to 1996 where we join another descendant of LeMarchand, John Merchant. Apparently his bloodline has been cursed now for opening the gateway to hell. He has managed to build a skyscraper using the Lament configuration, Angelique see's this in an art magazine.
She tries to persuade Jacques to go to america to stop Merchant as he poses a threat to the gateway. When he refuses she kills him. Free to travel to America she does so and tries to seduce Merchant into not completing the building. It doesn't work.
She discovers the original Puzzle box later and gets a guy to open it. This summons forth Pinhead both demons mistrust each other as the new hell just craves suffering rather than seduction. Though they do form an uneasy alliance, this is then later broken when Angelique disagrees with the way Pinhead runs things. Trying to side with Merchant so she can be free from hell if he seals the gate with the Lament configuration.
This unfortunately backfires when the feedback loop destabilizes and the configuration fails. This gives Pinhead the opportunity to kill Merchant. His wife though manages to use the puzzle box to send all of the Cenobites back to hell, including Angelique.
Rimmer the female officer in charge back in 2127 doesn't believe Merchant and has him arrested that is until Pinhead along with new Cenobites, including a now enslaved Angelique start killing.
There's not much left to film after this suffice to say this is the last truly 'OK' Hellraiser film. It takes us back and we see how the box was created then lost, finally defeated.
I love the way the views of hell change over time just like any other place would. THN would urge you to watch this if you've liked all previous entries. Not exactly great but it's a good dropping off point none the less. Though there are like five more films, as you'll know from a way way earlier review of the last entry in the series it not really great beyond this point.
THN rewards Hellraiser 4, Bloodlines a strong 3 stars out of 5 with a recommendation to watch.
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