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Line 5: {{quote\|''"No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering."''\|'''Pinhead''', ''Hellraiser''}} A 1987 film based on [[Clive Barker]]'s novella ''The Hellbound Heart'', ''Hellraiser'' has gone on to spawn eight sequels (only one of which - the second - Barker was directly involved with) as well as an upcoming remake. The series has at its heart a puzzle box known as the Lament Configuration, which when properly solved summons the Cenobites, a cadre of sadomasochistic [[Humanoid Abomination~~\|Humanoid Abominations~~]]s. The mascot of the series is the only recurring Cenobyte after the second film, the iconic Pinhead, played by Doug Bradley. He was given a choice, when filming the first movie, to play either the Cenobite or a workman who showed up for all of ten seconds - bet he's happy he went with the Cenobite. Because it's a [[Clive Barker]] production, expect much [[Body Horror]] and gleeful blurring of the line between [[Fetish Fuel]] and [[Fan Disservice]]. '''Films of this series include:''' Line 13: * ''Hellbound: Hellraiser II'' (1988) * ''Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth'' (1992) * ''Hellraiser: Bloodline'' (1996). Last theatrically-released entry. * ''Hellraiser: Inferno'' (2000) * ''Hellraiser: Hellseeker'' (2002) Line 27: ** "What's your pleasure, sir?" * [[Artifact of Doom]]/[[Summoning Artifact]]: The Lament Configuration. Leads to an [[Oh Crap]] moment at the conclusion of each of the first several sequels. * [[Ascended Extra]]: In the book, Pinhead is present but is not the lead Cenobite. The female Cenobite, the Chatterer, and the Engineer all have more prominent roles, but the film adaptation prevented this. The Chatterer could not speak (and the actor could not see), the Engineer was completely remade to the point it's unrecognizable and arguably demoted to a [[~~Big~~Non ~~Lipped~~Sequitur ~~Alligator Moment~~Scene]] when it does appear, and the female Cenobite, while capable of speaking, has makeup that severely limited the actress' head and facial movements. Though fixed by the sequel, these problems meant Pinhead took point. And now he's pretty much the face of horror films to the western civilization. * [[Ascended Meme]]: The "Lead Cenobite" of the first film was given the nickname of Pinhead by the film's fans. In the second film, Pinhead became his official name, and remained such through all the other sequels. * [[Beat Still My Heart]]: The second and fourth films. Line 51: * [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: Kirsty boyfriend, Steve. * [[Coolest Club Ever]]: The Boiler Room from ''Hell on Earth''. * [[Cross -Melting Aura]]: Pinhead melts a cross and badly burns a priest. * [[Creepy Twins]]: The Siamese Twins from ''Bloodline'' and Wire Twins from ''Inferno''. * [[Cute Monster Girl]]: Marla (depending on how rotten she is in a particular scene) in ''Deader''. Line 59: ** Even more so in the novel, where (except for the [[Mind Rape\|soul rape]] you forever thing) the Cenobites are [[Affably Evil\|quite amiable]], and do not renege on their deal with Kirsty as they do in the movie. * [[Dark World]]: The implicit setting after a character solves the puzzle box but before they're taken to the Labyrinth: the surroundings change to become deserted, blood-drenched and adorned with chains. * [[Deal ~~With~~with the Devil]]: Kirsty makes one with the Cenobites in the first and sixth films. When it comes right down to it, that's what the whole series is about. The pursuit of ultimate pleasure or forbidden knowledge, wherein the seeker places their trust and fate in the hands of unknown entities of supernatural origin. And the Cenobites deliver. It's just that, in true Deal With The Devil style, the ultimate pleasure that the seekers ''get'' is not usually the kind they ''want''. Played with in ''Revelations:'' {{spoiler\|Niko tries to make a deal with Pinhead like Kirsty did, but Pinhead takes one look at the person he wants to trade for himself and realizes she's the kind of person who will open the box of her own accord one day, thus making her worthless as a trade.}} * [[Death Byby Materialism]]: Everybody just has to have the Lament Configuration. * [[Defiant to the End]]: When Channard kills all the other Cenobites and takes Pinhead's power away turning him human, [[Go Out With A Smile\|he gives Kirsty a warm smile]] before taking out one of his bladed tools to threaten Channard while Kirsty and Tiffany escape. {{spoiler\| Channard slits his throat to kill him, before he even does anything, but it's the thought that counts.}} * [[Development Hell]]: The remake was stuck in it for a long, long time. * [[Did Not Do the Research]]: People who describe (or [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch\|dismiss]]) ''Hellworld'' as "Pinhead killing hackers online". * [[Dirty Cop]]: Detective Joseph Thorne in ''Inferno''. He cheats on his wife with prostitutes, neglects his family, brutalizes his informant, steals evidence, does drugs, frames his partner... * [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The female Cenobite inserting her fingers into her own exposed trachea in the first film - among innumerable other examples likely to make you ill. * [[Doomed Byby Canon]]: ''Hellraiser: Bloodline''. You know that the past attempts of the Merchant family are completely useless throughout the entire film. If they weren't, then Dr. Paul Merchant would not have still been trying to undo his ancestor's mistake at the film's start. * [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler\|Amy Klein}} may not have been taken by Cenobites, but {{spoiler\|she's still dead, though}}. * [[Drunk Onon the Dark Side]]: {{spoiler\|Dr. Channard}}, after becoming a Cenobite. * [[Eldritch Abomination]]: Leviathan. Also, possibly, the Engineer. ** The first movie treats the Cenobites as such. * [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Pinhead's human self, Captain Elliot Spencer... and probably Pinhead himself. * [[Expanded Universe]]: A surprisingly large, detailed one. * [[Everything's Better ~~With~~with Princesses]]: Angelique. [[Subverted Trope\|Angelique is the princess of HELL.]] * Further subverted. {{spoiler\|After she fails to corrupt the modern descendant of Lemarchand, Pinhead takes her to Hell with him and remakes her in his image. The next time we see her, she's just another Cenobite in his retinue.}} Line 94: * [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: Show up quite often, and not just in the film set in space. * [[Gainax Ending]]: ''Hellworld'', and all the made-for-video sequels to some extent. Before that, the second film, with many a movie critic complaining that the climax didn't make sense. At the very least, figuring out what the Leviathan Configuration does, and what happened at the end {{spoiler\|when Tiffany resolved it}} will take [[Wild Mass Guessing\|some guesswork]] on the viewer's part. * [[Going for ~~The~~the Big Scoop]]: Joey in ''Hell on Earth'', Amy in ''Deader''. * [[Good Cop, Bad Cop]]: The two detectives from ''Hellseeker''. {{spoiler\|Subverted. They're the same entity, torturing the [[Villain Protagonist\|villainous protagonist]] throughout, and a callback to the question of whether the cenobites are angels or demons.}} * [[Gorn]] Line 101: * [[Hell Seeker]]: There are several characters with this mindset, and for some of them it even kind of works out: they're turned into cenobites, and enjoy it. * [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: {{spoiler\|Kirsty}} in ''Hellseeker''. * [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Viewers may recognize Kirsty's father as [[Deep Space Nine\|plain, simple Garak]]. Also, in ''Hellbound'' we have Lt. Gorman from ''[[Alien\|Aliens]]''. ''Hell on Earth'' has [[Deep Space Nine\|Jadzia Dax]]. ** One of the Wire Twins in ''Inferno'' is on ''[[Deal or No Deal]]'' as one of [[Lovely Assistant\|The Lovely Assistants]]. * [[Ho Yay]]: In ''Deader'', Winter resurrects his followers by pretty much making out with them. * [[Hooks and Crooks]]: Cenobites attack their victims with hooks on chains. Line 116 ⟶ 112: * [[Ironic Hell]]: Often. Prominently with Frank's own Hell in ''Hellbound''. * [[Large Ham]]: Pinhead and the Channard Cenobite. * [[Leaning Onon the Fourth Wall]]: The sequel ''Hellworld'' involves the fans of a cenobite-themed online group/game apparently also called "Hellraiser". This leads to lots of double entendre dialogue as, while the story still refers to the series' background as canon, there's also lots of talk about "Hellraiser fans" and whether "Hellraiser" is a healthy interest or something that should worry parents. * [[Legacy Character]]: The Chatterer. ** Also the Lemarchand family, though the Chatterer's more visible and continuously invoked. It's debatable whether it's the same character throughout the series. Line 126 ⟶ 122: * [[Motive Decay]]: Pinhead. In the early installments he put a great deal of emphasis on the idea that his victims, on some level, wanted pain, and had even sought him out. In Hellbound, he even stopped the other cenobites from attacking a traumatized girl who'd been tricked into solving the lament configuration. By Bloodline, though, he was actively attempting to drag the entire world into Hell, whether they liked it or not. * [[Nasty Party]]: {{spoiler\|The Host's}} plan in ''Hellworld''. * [[Nice Guy]]: Larry. Despite an obvious rough patch between the two, he does love Julia very much and loves Kirsty all the same. After moving his stuff in Frank's house, he invites his movers to dinner and drink to celebrate. {{Spoiler\| Makes his death all the more tragic as he had no idea about Frank's situation, nor Julia's murders or even Kirsty witnessing one until it was too late for him. Even [[Even Evil Has Standards\|Pinhead]] looked disgusted when he found Larry's skinless corpse on the floor, demanding an unknowing Kirsty to bring the person that did it.}} * [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Nice job {{spoiler\|restoring Pinhead's humanity}}, Kirsty. Too bad that his evil side no longer follows his rules. ** In ''Revelations,'' just before {{spoiler\|Pinhead drags Niko away, Ross shoots him, saying that he has more of a claim to Niko's life than anyone. Niko even thanks him with his last breath, as he's now spared an eternity with the Cenobites. Pinhead, annoyed, promptly gives Ross a [[Hannibal Lecture]] explaining that the suffering Niko would've endured is beyond what vengeance would call for, and calls him out for having acted purely out of a selfish need to be the instrument of vengeance himself. To satiate their appetite and claim their debt of flesh, they take his wife as a replacement for Niko.}} * [[Not So Different]] * [[Off-the-Shelf FX]]: Pinhead's "pins" in ''Hellbound'' are Q-tips without the cottonballs, painted gray. * [[Only Known Byby Their Nickname]]: ''Hellbound's'' Tiffany (that was a name given to her by the staff) and the Host from ''Hellworld''. * [[The Other Darrin]]: The actress who played the Female Cenobite in ''Hellbound'' isn't the same one who played her in the original, but it's not that noticeable. In ''Revelations,'' it's ''very'' noticeable that Doug Bradley isn't Pinhead. * [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]: Elliot's wayward soul in ''Hell on Earth''. * [[Parental Incest]]: Flashbacks in ''Deader'' implicate Amy was sexually abused by her father. The lurking phantom of parental incest is all over the first two films. "Come to daddy" and all that. There's no evidence that it actually happened, but the idea is pretty firmly put into viewer's heads. {{spoiler\|Well, aside from Frank not being above sleeping with his brother's second wife. Even if he's not Kirsty's father, though, the implications as her uncle aren't much better.}} * Incidentally, that was a line taken directly from the novella where Kirsty is twenty-six and a friend rather than the daughter. Doesn't make it any less creepy though. * [[Peek -a -Boo Corpse]]: Played about as straight as possible in the first film. * [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]]: Several. For example, "Play dead" (to a demon dog) or "Welcome to oblivion" (to Pinhead) from ''Bloodline''. * [[Recycled in Space]]: ''Bloodline''. Line 142 ⟶ 138: * [[Religion of Evil]]: The Deaders in ''Deader'', and the Cenobites themselves in the original novella, as servants of the Order of Gash (the word Cenobite just means a monk or nun in a convent). * [[Romanticized Abuse]]: The ''Hellraiser'' films have this as a component, creeping most viewers out even further. "We have such sights to show you". The novel version ''The Hellbound Heart'' has the initial description of the female cenobite invoke piercing fetishism. * [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can]]: The Lament Configuration again, and the pillar in the third film, plus the floorboards and the mattress in the first and second films. * [[Self-Constructed Being]]: The plot of the first movie as far as Frank Cotton was concerned. * [[Sense Freak]]: The Cenobites. Albiet to a very, ''very'' extreme degree. * [[She Is's All Grown Up]]: Kirsty in ''Hellseeker''. This was also Frank's reaction to her in the original. * [[Sinister Geometry]]: Leviathan is a lozenge! * [[Sinister Shades]]: The Butterball Cenobite, who wears shades because his eyes are sewn shut. Line 151 ⟶ 147: * [[Slasher Smile]]: The Chatterer. (not that he can really make any other expression). * [[Smith Will Suffice]]: This exchange from ''Hell on Earth'': {{quote\| '''J.P. Monroe''': "Jesus Christ!"~~<br />~~ '''Pinhead''': "Not quite." }} * [[Spin-Off]]: The Harrowers. * [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: An entire sequence in ''Hell on Earth'' just has Joey running down the street as stuff explodes around her. * [[Suddenly Voiced]]: Tiffany in ''Hellbound'', after seeing the Channard Cenobite: {{quote\| '''Tiffany:''' "[[Oh Crap\|Shit!]]"}} * [[Supernatural -Proof Father]]: Larry. * [[Token Minority]]: Derek in ''Hellworld''. * [[Tomato in ~~The~~the Mirror]]: The ending of ''Inferno''. * [[The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday]]: ''Hell on Earth'' and ''Hellseeker''. * [[Throw It In]]: Andrew Robinson thought "Jesus wept" sounded so much cooler than the scripted line "Fuck you". He was right. * [[Too Kinky to Torture]]: {{spoiler\|Channard}}'s reaction after {{spoiler\|his transformation into a cenobite}} is to question why he had any doubts about it. * [[Too Dumb to Live]]: {{spoiler\|Larry}} from the first film. Paying so little attention to your house and to your wife's strange behavior can get you killed. And {{spoiler\|Kyle}} from the second. Went to a house where {{spoiler\|Julia}} was, then decided to split up, didn't ask a strange woman who she was and what was doing there, and when she started to behave oddly didn't run away. [[What an Idiot!]] indeed. * [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: {{spoiler\|Julia}} went from being a reluctant and remorseful killer who tried her best to save {{spoiler\|Larry Cotton}} from Frank in the first film to a hardened killer in the second, who took great joy in being evil. Probably an after-effect from being {{spoiler\|betrayed, killed, tortured and ressurected.}} * [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Pinhead is prone to these as well. * [[This Is Sparta]]: "We'll tear your soul...APAAAAAAHHHHT." Line 172 ⟶ 168: * [[Twist Ending]]: Several: ''Bloodlines:'' The space station is {{spoiler\|the perfected "anti-Lament Configuration" that previous Merchants couldn't get quite right.}} ''Inferno:'' Joseph is {{spoiler\|a [[Tomato in ~~The~~the Mirror]] and his entire investigation of the Engineer serial killer case has been his personal Hell.}} ''Hellseeker:'' {{spoiler\|Kirsty's actually outwitted her husband and traded him to Pinhead in exchange for her own safety.}} ''Hellworld:'' A double whammy: {{spoiler\|There's nothing supernatural going on at the party, the Host has drugged the protagonists so they'll have potent enough Hellworld-related hallucinations to kill them as ironic payback for his son's Hellworld-inspired suicide. Then, when the Host is idly playing with his son's homemade Lament Configuration, it turns out that it actually ''works,'' and the real Pinhead explains his son simply opened a gate to Hell. The Host pays for doing the same.}} Line 182 ⟶ 178: ** Julia likes hammers. * [[Welcome to Hell]]: Literally, in this case. * [[What Could Have Been]]: The music for the first film was originally done by Coil (they were hired by [[Clive Barker]] after he listened to one of their albums and nearly got sick due to how brutal their music was) but the studio ended up rejecting it due to its content. Their score ended up getting released separately and Christopher Young did the score that ended up in the film (which launched his career as a composer). * [[Wicked Stepmother]]: Julia. ** She even [[Fairy Tale Motifs\|says so herself]]. * [[Words Do Not Make the Magic]]: One character in the series solves puzzles reflexively, as she has a psychological detachment that forces her to do so, whether she wants to or not. She's given the Lament Configuration so that someone else can sacrifice her to the Cenobites, while he can safely watch what happens. The Cenobites ignore her, and proceed to hunt ~~him -- his~~him—his was the desire that led to the box opening. {{quote\| Pinhead: It is not hands that summon us. It is desire. }} ** In ''Revelations,'' Niko tries the same trick and also fails, although Pinhead doesn't bother spelling it out this time. Line 197 ⟶ 192: [[Category:Films of the 1990s]] [[Category:Films of the 2000s]] [[Category:~~One~~The ~~Hundred~~100 Scariest Movie Moments]] [[Category:Hellraiser]]▼ [[Category:Film]] ▲[[Category:Hellraiser]] [[Category:Cult Classic]]