Hellraiser: Bloodline
Hellraiser IV Bloodline is a 1996 American sciencefiction horror film and the fourth installment in the Hellraiser series, which serves as both a prequel and a sequel. Directed by Kevin Yagher and Joe Chappelle, the film stars Doug Bradley as Pinhead, reprising his role and now the only remaining original character and cast member. Other cast members include Bruce Ramsay, Valentina Vargas and Kim Myers. This was the last Hellraiser film to be released in theaters and the last to have any sort of major official involvement with series creator Clive Barker and also the final installment in chronology.
The film flashes back to Paris, France, 1796. Dr. Merchants ancestor, Philip LeMarchand, a French toymaker, makes the Lament Configuration on commission from the libertine aristocrat Duc de LIsle. Unbeknownst to LeMarchand, LIsles specifications for the box make it a portal to Hell. Upon delivering the box to LIsle, LeMarchand watches as he and his assistant Jacques sacrifice a prostitute and use her blood to summon a demon, Angelique, through the box. LeMarchand runs home in terror, where he begins working on blueprints for a second box which will neutralize the effects of the first. Returning to LIsles mansion to steal the box, LeMarchand discovers that Jacques has killed LIsle and taken control over Angelique, who agrees to be his slave so long as he does not impede the wishes of Hell. The pair kill LeMarchand, with Jacques informing him that his bloodline is now cursed for helping to open a portal to Hell.In 1996, LeMarchands descendant, John Merchant, has built a skyscraper in Manhattan that resembles the Lament Configuration. Seeing an article on the building in a magazine, Angelique asks Jacques to take her to America so that she can confront him. When Jacques denies her request, Angelique kills him, as Merchant poses a threat to Hell. Angelique travels to America, where she unsuccessfully tries to seduce Merchant. Discovering the Lament Configuration in the buildings foundation following the events of Hellraiser III, Angelique tricks a security guard into solving it, which summons Pinhead. The two immediately clash, as Pinhead represents a shift in the ideologies of Hell which she left behind two hundred years ago While Angelique believes in corrupting people through temptation, Pinhead is fanatically devoted to the ideas of pain and suffering. Despite their conflicting views, the pair forge an uneasy alliance to kill Merchant before he can successfully complete The Elysium Configuration, an antiLament Configuration that creates perpetual light and would se
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