10 Iconic Horror Movie Characters Done Dirty

Where Halloween had Laurie Strode or A Nightmare on Elm Street had Nancy Thompson, the central protagonist of the early Hellraiser movies was Ashley Laurence's Kirsty Cotton.

While the eventual returns of Jamie Lee Curtis (for Halloween H20) and Heather Langenkamp (for Wes Craven's New Nightmare) were well received and happened in some of the better pictures of their respective franchises, the same can't be said for Kirsty's big return in 2002's Hellraiser: Hellseeker.

Prior to that, Kirsty had battled her creepy Uncle Frank, her twisted stepmother Julia, and Pinhead and his Cenobites through the first two films, plus made a brief video appearance in Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth. So, when she returned for Hellseeker - the sixth entry in the series - hope was high that bringing Kirsty back could represent a high point for the property.

Sadly, the end result was a stinker of a film which took a giant dump on a once-revered character.

Many were left in disbelief when Hellseeker killed off Kirsty in an opening moments car crash, leaving her abusive husband Trevor to be the film's main focus. If that wasn't bad enough, Hellseeker ends by revealing Trevor, not Kirsty, had perished in that car wreck, and that Kirsty had made a deal with Pinhead which saw her responsible for the deaths of Trevor, his best pal, and Trevor's three mistresses.