DID YOU KNOW
1. During filming, Dimension Films placed the cast and crew under a gag order, hindering director Rick Bota's opportunity to promote the film when Fangoria magazine attempted to do a cover story on it. Star Ashley Laurence broke the gag order to speak about the film, claiming that she had only been paid enough money to make a payment toward a new refrigerator.
2. Doug Bradley personally edited Pinhead's dialogue, giving him more lines than originally scripted.
3. Director Rick Bota was initially ambivalent about the idea of Pinhead appearing through an acupuncture chart, thinking it was too silly, but Doug Bradley was so amused by the idea that it was kept in the script.
4. The uncredited co-worker who interrupts Trevor and Bret at the water cooler was referred to by director Rick Bota as a "$10,000 extra". Labor laws of British Columbia forbade directors from directly instructing non-speaking extras, and all orders had to be conveyed through the assistant director. But after Bota broke that law and told the man to play the scene differently, the man was due a few thousand dollars extra in compensation.
5. Like 'Hellraiser: Inferno' (2000) before it, 'Hellseeker' was originally a non-Hellraiser related horror script owned by Dimension (though the director of 'Inferno' Scott Derrickson maintains the film was always written and intended as a Hellraiser sequel). To save money on writing a completely original 'Hellraiser' story, the Cenobites were quickly added to the script, along with references to Kirsty's past with them. A scene written specifically to try and bring the largely unrelated plot in line with the canon of the first two 'Hellraiser' films was subsequently cut, but is available on the DVD as a special feature.
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