Hellraiser: Bloodline

In the 22nd century, a scientist attempts to right the wrong his ancestor created: the puzzle box that opens the gates of Hell and unleashes Pinhead and his Cenobite legions.

• Director:Joe Chappelle
• Genre:Fantasy / Horror / Sci-Fi
• Runtime:77 minutes

Cast

Bruce Ramsay : Phillip L’Merchant / John Merchant / Dr. Paul Merchant
Valentina Vargas: Angelique
Doug Bradley : Pinhead
Charlotte Chatton: Genevieve L’Merchant
Adam Scott : Jacques

The plot revolves around the creator of the Lament Configuration, a French toy-maker named Philip Lemarchand, commissioned by Duc de L’Isle, a wealthy aristocrat and master of the dark arts who wishes to open a gateway to Hell in order to enslave a demon. Taking place in Paris 1974, the story follows the Lemarchand/Merchant blood-line and their unconscious bond with the Lament Configuration, and a plot for a new design, the Elysium Configuration, able to close the gateway opened by the first box and destroy the Cenobites.

The film begins at Space Station Minos in the year 2127. Paul Merchant, the man who built the station, has a robot solve the Lament Configuration (the robot is subsequently destroyed). However, several guards led by Rimmer capture Paul. Paul tells Rimmer the story of his bloodline.

A flashback is shown to around 400 years ago. Phillip L’Merchant, a French toymaker, makes the Lament Configuration for a wealthy aristrocrat named Duc de L’Isle, who is obsessed with dark magic. He and his servant, Jacques, kill a woman and remove her insides from her skin, and L’Isle uses dark magic with the Lament Configuration to summon a demon princess named Angelique in the woman’s skin. She is theirs to command unless they stand in Hell’s way. However, Angelique and Jacques betray and kill de L’Isle. L’Merchant, in the process of inventing a design (the Elysium Configuration) to destroy the demons, attempts to steal back the box but is discovered. Jacques taunts that L’Merchant and his bloodline are cursed until the end of time because of the box he created, before ordering Angelique to kill him. However, his wife survives.

Around 200 years later, John Merchant has built the building witnessed at the end of Hellraiser III. Upon realizing that the Merchant bloodline has survived, Angelique turns on Jacques and rips out his heart for “standing in Hell’s way” and attempts to seduce John. She finds the Lament Configuration in a cement pillar in the basement and makes a man solve it, and he is killed by Pinhead. Read more

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