TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Hellraiser is a series based on Clive Barker's novella "The Hellbound Heart".The novella has a novel-length sequel, The Scarlet Gospels by Barker himself, but the movies based on the novella have garnered the most attention. All There in the Manual : Blurbs on the packaging of several of the minor Cenobites' action figures give them backstories. Games Movies TV Video. At his home in London he eventually figures out the configuration, before he is is dragged off by unseen forces. The Scarlet Gospels kills off the the character of Pinhead, though it doesn't share a continuity with anything else in the series bar the original novellas. Right down to the "What's your pleasure, sir?" Tropes used in Hellraiser include: Above Good and Evil : The Cenobites, usually, there was Pinhead's little descent into Chaotic Evil in Hell on Earth . TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The film ends right where it started, with the Chinese man selling the retrieved Lament Configuration to another unwitting explorer of the boundary between pleasure and pain, just as he did with Frank. During the production of the first film, Barker asked the production team for suitable name for the movie after the original novel title The Hellbound Heart was rejected by execs. Tropes Media Browse Indexes Forums Videos Ask The Tropers Trope Finder You Know That Show... Trope Launch Pad Tools Cut List New Edits Edit Reasons Launches Images List Crowner Activity Un-typed Pages Recent Page Type Changes (The credits billed them as "Butterball", "Chatterer", and "Female Cenobite", which were more descriptions than names.). Pinhead had only brief appearances in the first two films and was not intended to be the series' primary villain. Because it's a Clive Barker production, expect much Body Horror and gleefully fetishistic Fan Disservice. The Hellraiser franchise. How do the Butterball Cenobite's glasses stay on? The wiki format allows anyone to create or edit any article, so we can all work together to create the best possible database for the Hellraiser saga. The Cenobites ignore her, and proceed to hunt him — his was the desire that led to the box opening. The puzzle box is a portal. Creatures of Hellraiser , List of Cenobites list cenobites all cenobites hellraiser creatures pinhead chatter chatterer HELLRAISER The Twins Angelique Butter Ball Horror Icons Horror Films Andrew Robinson Salem Lot Horror Movie Characters Horror Fiction Tv Tropes Lights Camera Action Love Film Since her husband went to Hell partly due to his desire to murder her, this implies she's condemned herself. Welcome, fellow explorer of the nerve endings, to the Hellraiser Wiki, a collaborative library of information on Clive Barker's Hellraiser metaseries.. He gets a robot to solve the Lament Configuration (tearing the robot to shreds), before security guards, led by Rimmer, capture him. Directed by Kevin Yagher. Philip Lemarchand, a French toymaker, makes the Lament Configurationfor a wealthy aristrocrat named Duc de L'Isle, who is ob… Probably just a coincidence, but at one point in, More evident in the first two films, in which the antagonists are invariably human and the Cenobites, despite being, Even more so in the novella, where (except for the, The entire conception of what the Cenobite realm. We have such sights to show you! An earlier example occurs when Frank first makes his presence known to Julia by grabbing her ankle. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Hellraiser. The icon and representative of the series is the only recurring Cenobite after the second film, the iconic Pinhead, played by Doug Bradley. This category encompasses all articles relating to Cenobites, the extra-dimensional beings who serve as the emissaries and servants of the daemon god-like being, Leviathan. — James Rolfe Dr. She tries to destroy the puzzle box that started this whole mess, but a winged demon takes it away and it's last seen being sold to another fool. It has also spun off into countless comic books, some of which have had input from Barker. It is the first film in the Hellraiser series. Wikis. But her father is dead and the puzzle box still exists. Hey, It's That Guy! The fact that the book and the film have distinctly different titles doesn't help. I am a fortnite creative professional with over 100 maps built. Complete Monster: Frank Cotton, Julia Cotton, Dr. Phillip Channard, Pinhead unbounded, the list is endless. One day, a man looking for a place to stay gave her the gift of a LeMarchand Box after sensing her desires. Gradually making my way through ALL of the Hellraiser Movies. Chatterer, who's the second most recurring Cenobite after Pinhead. Hellraiser is a 1987 horror film directed by Clive Barker, based on his novella The Hellbound Heart. 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 Abominations. Murders are by smashing someone on the head with a small hammer, and the first blow NEVER works. Bet he's happy he went with the Cenobite. Larry pays so little attention to his house and to his wife's strange behavior that it gets him killed. The Cenobites have been defeated and Kirsty has escaped her father's home with her boyfriend. He has no ears! Even if he was a scheming jerk as a human, he didn't turn into a sadistic, vampiric killer until he had spent years in Hell with the Cenobites. In the book, Pinhead is present but is not the lead Cenobite. Frank. They enjoy anything that causes severe pain, and fusing one's eyewear to their head would be pretty damn painful. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. a large statue of Jesus to fall out and startle her. "Hellraiser is a movie that's so fucked up, you don't even look at it unless you want to be freaked out of your mind!" The part in Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth where Pinhead, via the Pillar of Souls, rips off a woman's skin while she's still alive before absorbing her into the pillar. Rated: Fiction M - English - Horror - Pinhead - Words: 1,095 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4/2 - Status: Complete - id: 13250864 + - Full 3/4 1/2 Expand Tighten She's given the Lament Configuration so that someone else can sacrifice her to the Cenobites, while he can safely watch what happens. Some time later, his brother Larry (Andrew Robinson) and Larry's second wife Julia (Clare Higgins) visit the house, and with Frank seemingly gone, decide to move in. Paul Merchant, the creator of Space Station Minos, hijacks it and takes it out of orbit. Though fixed by the sequel, these problems meant Pinhead took point. And Introducing: Bloodline features the first acting credit for Parks and Recreation and Party Down star Adam Scott. By accident some of Larry's blood is spilled on the floor in the attic, and Frank rises from the dead as a skinless undead human. One older lady suggested What a Woman Will do for a Good Fuck. But due to the character's popularity with fans, he was, Pinhead's characterization and motives change from the. The novella has a novel-length sequel, The Scarlet Gospels by Barker himself, but the movies based on the novella have garnered the most attention. They're probably a part of his face. Clive Barker's Book of the Damned: A Hellraiser Companion. ; Hell on Earth has Jadzia Dax. ; Bait the Dog: Pinhead appears to be petting a little white dove in one scene.He promptly feeds it to his hellhound the Chatterbeast. A alternate ending for Hellraiser: Hellworld. It is implied that having his orderly half split off at the end of the second film is largely to blame for this. Somewhere in the orient, the hedonistic Frank Cotton (Sean Chapman) acquires a puzzle box from a mysterious Chinese man. Originally, Pinhead's goal was to claim whoever opened the box (with the twist being that he was open to compromise and making deals with his victims to spare them, at least temporarily) and bring them pleasure via intensely violent and gore-filled sadomasochism. He tells Julia (with whom he had an affair in the past) that he has escaped from a dimension ruled by beings called Cenobites who merge the boundaries between pleasure and pain, and convinces her to keep it a secret from Larry and find men for him to feed off on. Pinhead said maybe theyll let her go. ; One of the Wire Twins in Inferno is on Deal or No Deal as one of The Lovely Assistants. He's a demon and he takes the box back for himself. Butterball had some lines in the original script but due to the makeup preventing the actor from speaking, his lines were either cut or given to the female Cenobite. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. ; Evil Is Cool: Pinhead is the face of the Hellraiser series. while he's wearing the skin of her husband. Pinhead never agreed to anything. How does Frank reward Julia for bringing him victims to regenerate his body? ... TV Tropes Cyborcat. 157,016 Pages. Hellraiser Wiki. Gradually making my way through ALL of the Hellraiser Movies. From left to right: Butterball, Pinhead, the Female, and the Chatterer. Complete Monster: Frank Cotton, Julia Cotton, Dr. Phillip Channard, Pinhead unbounded, the list is endless. The original film has Frank Cotton, who the cenobites are on Earth to retrieve. Hell is really Metropolis, and the Cenobites are Awakened Human servants of the Archon who are attempting to help the other human captives Awaken. Pinhead himself started as this in the first film before being promoted as a Breakout Villain.Julia was intended to be the Big Bad. All The Tropes Wiki. 110 Pages. Frank cackles maniacally as the chains rip him apart in the climax. the cenobites didnt betray Kirsty after taking Frank. It has been said that once she opened the box, the Grillardcenobite came and began her transformation. as it is desire that summons them, not hands, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, The series is full of these, and Pinhead can. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/timsalmons# : Viewers may recognize Kirsty's father as plain, simple Garak.. Also, in Hellbound we have Lt. Gorman from Aliens. The latest development in the long-running franchise based on Clive Barker’s novella The Hellbound Heart and his original adaptation titled Hellraiser now appears to be a TV series. That said, he has nothing but a sadistic joke when he mistakenly kills her. Further soured by the sequel, in which Kirsty is still trying to escape the Cenobites. In Judgement he claims David and Allison for opening the box, even though they did against their will and at gunpoint. Both Hell on Earth and Inferno have scenes where characters are killed behind closed doors. Frank is reclaimed by the Cenobites, who are promptly banished when they try to take Kirsty too. All There in the Manual : Blurbs on the packaging of several of the minor Cenobites' action figures give them backstories. Meanwhile Larry's daughter Kirsty (Ashley Laurence) discovers the puzzle box, and comes face to face with the Cenobites, who are interested in getting Frank back to their realm. and do not renege on their deal with Kirsty as they do in the movie. Kirsty lives, but she's murdered people to escape this time. Games Movies TV Video. He stabs her in the stomach and leaves her for the Cenobites. At the end of the first film, all the cenobites get sent back to hell. The Hellraiser anthology comic book has some horrifying stories about other people who have stumbled across Lamarchand's accursed box. Register Start a Wiki. Hellraiser: Bloodline contains examples of:. To write a new Hellraiser article, visit CreatePage. Category:Movies Category:Books Category:Comics Characters. One character in the second film solves puzzles reflexively, as she has a psychological detachment that forces her to do so whether she wants to or not. the mutilated corpse of one of Frank and Julia's victims falls onto her and drops maggots all over her. Explore Wikis; Community Central; Start a Wiki; Search This wiki This wiki All wikis | Sign In Don't have an account? Soon it was all she desired, to the point of obsession. Category:Hellraiser | All The Tropes Wiki | Fandom. The name "Pinhead" was coined by the makeup crew and does not appear in the dialogue until the third film. Anthony Allen's (Julia's first victim) real voice briefly slips through during his death scene, a few of his lines aren't dubbed. until they decide to break their deal with Kristy at the end of the film. They simply come from a part of Arcadia that happens to be particularly twisted and unpleasant. TV spot #1 for the horror film Hellraiser from 1987.Like what you see? The first film, an adaptation of the original novellas, has inspired eight film sequels, only one of which (the second), had any direct involvement by Barker himself. Tropes used in Hellraiser include: Above Good and Evil : The Cenobites, usually, there was Pinhead's little descent into Chaotic Evil in Hell on Earth . The Cenobites have been literally turned into monsters by years of hellish torment. dramatically underestimated Pinhead's popularity. Now he's the face of the franchise. The female Cenobite, the Chatterer, and the Engineer all have more prominent roles, but the film adaptation prevented this. ; From Hellbound, a mental patient randomly exclaims "105 years and he still doesn't know my name! http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/Hellraiser. Wikis. Jul 14, 2017 - Explore videogamehorror's board "Ashley Laurence" on Pinterest. Hello there Guys my Name is John! The Chatterer could not speak (and the actor could not see), the Engineer was demoted and completely remade to the point of being unrecognizable, and the female Cenobite—while capable of speaking—had makeup that severely limited the actress' head and facial movements. upon hearing her "father" say, "Come to Daddy" and realizing who it really is. particularly when Frank - already established as not above sleeping with his sister-in-law - attempts to rape Kirsty - his niece - while wearing her father's skin. Hellraiser is a series based on Clive Barker's novella "The Hellbound Heart". It can be argued that Kirsty is part of the. The first film, an adaptation of the original novellas, has inspired eight film sequels, only one of which (the second), had any direct involvement by Barker himself. Explore Wikis; Community Central; Start a Wiki; Search This wiki This wiki All wikis | Sign In Don't have an account? Pretty much. A Remake of the first film languishes in (no pun intended) Development Hell. He simply said that they. Subscribe Subscribed Unsubscribe 16.9K. The same can be said for the members of Pinhead's entourage that appeared in the first two films. As per Barbie Wilde's story in "Hellbound Hearts", h… In the first film, Pinhead is unnamed and simply described as "Lead Cenobite" in the credits. Sister Nikoletta was a nun whose devotion to the Church waned as the seeds of lust and wanting grew secretly within her. even for a series which started off as it did. Julia eventually comes to this conclusion as well. Adaptation Displacement: The number of fans unaware there was ever a book is astounding.The fact that the book and the film have distinctly different titles doesn't help. Adaptation Displacement: The number of fans unaware there was ever a book is astounding. Hellraiser is a 1987 horror film directed by Clive Barker, based on his novella The Hellbound Heart.It is the first film in the Hellraiser series.. Somewhere in the orient, the hedonistic Frank Cotton (Sean Chapman) acquires a puzzle box from a mysterious Chinese man. a homeless man walking into fire, transforming into a skeletal dragon, and flying off with the puzzle box in its talons. Register Start a Wiki. Joseph Thorne, whose sins kick start the plot and the alleged serial killer known as Engineer, who is in fact a manifestation of Thorne's own cruelty, Trevor Gooden is technically this as it was his plot to have Kirsty Cotton killed that got the Cenobites following him. Paul tells Rimmer the story of his bloodline. line. Demons to some, Angels to others. None of them were referred to by name. Jul 7, 2018 - Explore STEVEN GRANT's board "Clare Higgins", followed by 115 people on Pinterest. 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. Merchant : "Welcome to oblivion." Hellraiser is a British horror franchise that consists of nine films, a series of comic books, as well as merchandise based on the series. We are talking about sadomasochisic demons after all. By the third film, he's a general of a Hell dimension and the box, rather than being a tool for pleasure/pain, is nothing more than a cursed object used by Pinhead to ensnare fresh victims to turn into lackeys to swell the ranks of his unholy army. See more ideas about clare higgins, hellraiser, horror. After a long delay, Hellraiser: Judgment - the latest entry in the long-running horror franchise - has finally gotten a release date. All Hellraiser Movies -Hellraiser -Hellraiser II: Hellbround -Hellraiser III Hell On Earth -Hellraiser IV -Hellraiser (Video Game) -Hellraiser (2000) And Mores Refine See titles to … "when Dr. Channard walks past him. Of note are: The very first story in the first issue, which is illustrated like a painting and revolves around the wife of a French nobleman who finds the Lament Configuration during a crusade in Jerusalem. The Chinese merchant at the beginning and the locust-eating hobo are both faces of what is implied to be the devil, or at least. 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. A flashback is shown to around 400 years ago. With Bruce Ramsay, Valentina Vargas, Doug Bradley, Charlotte Chatton. See more ideas about hellraiser, ashley, horror movies. Add new page. 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